He then tauntingly says that the agent is faced with an ultimatum: if he shoots him, he will not get to know where he buried all of his undiscovered victims; if he doesn't shoot him, he will kill Stephanie anyway. Hasina | Sells then attacked Elaine, Keith's pregnant wife; the beating was so severe that she went into labor and gave birth to her daughter (whose parents had decided to give her the name Casey). Sells was born on June 28, 1964 in Oakland, California. They were also given nicknames for their crimes. Birth Date George Kelling | By appealing to Graney's desire for recognition and infamy, Gideon starts talking him down, saying that if he gives up he will be immortalized, but if he forces Gideon to kill him, Gideon will claim he was just a simple burglar, a nobody who will never be remembered by anyone. House on Fire: Directed by Flix Enrquez Alcal. Brian Matloff | "Criminal Minds" I Love You, Tommy Brown (TV Episode 2012) - IMDb The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI 's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) based in Quantico, Virginia. Sera Morrison | Phillip Connor | IntelligenceCunning The Tuareg Brothers | Antonio Cayetan | Similar to Henry Lee Lucas, Sells confessed to murders that he had either not committed or could not be confirmed; he claimed to have killed over 70 people. Yates does not physically appear in this episode, but his involvement in the prison break is confirmed in a later one. Eventually, he was found guilty of his crimes and put on death-row. Tory Chapman | Gluing victims' eyes open The BAU reiterate by telling him that there was another student from another school that Margaret loved him and that she named their child after him. Hugh Rollins | Marcus Lee Graham | Bangladeshi Unsub | He was released in 1997. Unspecified dates in 2009, Seattle, Washington: January 4-5, Richmond, Virginia: Jody Wilson, January 5-6, Baltimore, Maryland: Regina Franklin, Yates is the only terminally ill criminal on the show to not die from his illness, as he was shot and killed by. Lester Turner | In the past, he had a pattern of moving from high-risk victims to low-risk victims and then back, but this is no longer the case. Margaret sends Tommy to the car and proceeds to berate Julie and non-fatally shoots her. When Tina begins rejecting him due to all that he has done and the fact they are siblings, Wheeler grows agitated, his condition worsens when the police and BAU, who have discovered his past and track him down, burst in. Harvey Morell | There, he met and dated an introverted woman named Jody Wilson. New York Terrorist Cell | Matt and Josh Moore | He then offered a deal to give the name of an undiscovered victim of his annually, on a day of his choosing, in exchange for the upturning of his death penalty as well as his relocation to the East Coast (his grandmother had passed away while he was in prison, and as such, there was no reason for him to remain on the West Coast anymore). Kirk Bryan Ramon Woller (born March 9, 1962) is an American actor most notable for the role of Agent Gene Crane in The X-Files. Yukio Aito |, Beyond Borders Season 2 Rossi, now the head of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), recognizes his signature and reopens the investigation. Holding a 12-inch knife, he entered a house and sexually assaulted Kaylene Harris before stabbing her sixteen times and slashing her throat. However, he isn't convinced and drops the gun. Jeremy Sayer | Alias Ben Foster | Margaret Hallman | The Reimanns | He then encased her feet in concrete and dumped her in a desert hot spring. Vincent Perotta | The Fox | This unsub chooses local gathering places with a large number of potential victims inside. William Harding | He could have hated his own mother, as the strained mother-child relationship is a hallmark for many killers. In May 1981, Sells reunited with his family in Little Rock, Arkansas, but Nina threw him out after he stripped naked and attempted to join her in the shower. If you are 18 years or older or are comfortable with graphic material, you are free to view this page. "If you shoot me, you save her, but then I can't tell you where I buried all those other girls over the years. He primarily started them with gasoline and matches, though the bar fire was started with a Molotov cocktail since he was unfamiliar with the layout of the bar. Origin Graney targeted upper-middle-class, married Caucasian women with children, presumably as surrogates for the female relative he was living with. Becker Chapin. Michael Kosina | Day laborer Goals Rob as many banks as he can (mostly succeeded). Director Matt Earl Beesley Writers Jeff Davis Edward Allen Bernero Andrew Wilder Stars Mandy Patinkin Thomas Gibson Lola Glaudini See production, box office & company info Watch on Paramount+ with Prime Video Channels More watch options Kenneth Roberts | Lindsey Vaughn | Jason Wheeler | Graney appears to be partly inspired by Iain Scoular - Both are murderers who lived with an overbearing female relative, worked in blue-collar occupations, targeted middle-aged women, killed their victims by strangulation (though Scoular also stabbed or beat his), and arranged their belongings near their bodies at the crime scenes. He targeted women who lived either high-risk or low-risk lifestyles, alternating between the two types for unknown reasons. On November 17-18, Sells was hitchhiking in Ina, Illinois. The Road Warrior | Adam NelsonThomas Phelan (age 15)Alec Gatlin (age 10) Anna Begley | Josh Martin | They didn't exact the correct measure of punishment or attract enough attention or they didn't attract the attention of a certain person. Eric Rawdon | When serial killers know their death is imminent, they typically either feel the urge to confess to their crimes, or they try to achieve a high body count, both so they can go down in history. Donnie Bidwell | When he disposed of the victims, Yates would dump the bodies of his high-risk victims as if they were trash, while he took some time to bury the bodies of his low-risk victims. He then went after Krystal Surles, slashing her throat. Criminal Minds Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. William O'Brien | Ryan Phillips | Clifford Walsh | Jimmy Hall | Louie's Gang | Powers / Skills "The Tommy Killer" or simply "Tommy", is a serial killer, serial rapist, and stalker who appears in the Season One episode of Criminal Minds, "Plain Sight". Occupation Michael Huang | Patrick Butler | Animal | Dale Shavers | Desi Gutierrez | Tommy replies that he would never do that, and she tells him to prove it. Alias Frank Cosgrove | Sal Capilano | Bill Rogers | Bryce Jarvis | Kaman Scott | "Profiling 101" Paul Westin | One references "a mad, elderly woman described as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and carrying a large handgun" and ends with "Moral of the story? For all angels of death, see here. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to live with his aunt. Emma Kerrigan | He is similar to Martin Bryant - Both are killers and arsonists with histories of mental illness and bizarre behavior, left school because of their behaviors, both lost at least one parent (Bryant's father committed suicide, while Wheeler's parents died in a fire), had obsessions with a woman, committed their attacks in the wake of another crime (Bryant's massacre happened after the Dunblane massacre, while Wheeler was assaulted before his), and in their attacks they utilized fire, attacked numerous places at a popular tourist site, and killed at least 35 people. Hassan Nadir | Rossi reluctantly agrees in order to give the victims' families closure. 104+ killed2 attempted1+ victimless arson2 stalked Alan Crawford | "Profiling 202". Hayden Rawlings | Following his escape from prison, Yates started killing in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Mulford Brothers | Oleg Antakov | Trevor Mills, Season 8 ", The killer is nicknamed the "Tommy Killer" after the rock opera. February 1967 Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Edward Hill | Gender The Chameleon, Criminal Minds: Evolution Robert Boles | Dr. Thomas Bond, considered to be the first criminal profiler and a police surgeon for Scotland Yard during the Ripper case said, "In each case the mutilation was inflicted by a person who had no scientific nor anatomical knowledge. In 2009, Yates returns to Seattle after Trudy is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, and puts her in hospice care. He calls Rossi and tells him that, unlike the others, he is never going to find Weatherly. Robert Burke | Who Is Serial Killer Tommy Yates on 'Criminal Minds'? Sue Walsh | Stuart Barker | Jason Clark Battle | Henry Grace | Occupation Graney worked as a phone technician for Bell San Diego and lived with a nagging female relative, presumably either his mother or wife. Male Pretorius | Off On. Thomas Brown | Criminal Minds Wiki | Fandom The next night, Yates called Rossi again, this time from Baltimore, Maryland, and tells him that he was aware of his family. Miles Hendrick | She gave birth to their child while she was incarcerated and named him Johnny after her first lover (whom Tommy was unaware of), but the baby was put into foster care. He may have also been loosely inspired by the unidentified Boston Strangler - Both were serial killers and rapists who targeted women, raped them and strangled them with ligatures (though the Strangler killed by other means) in their homes, posed them with the ligatures still tied to them in their beds, were given nicknames for their crimes, operated in major cities that were sent into panics due to the murders, and were diverted from being caught when another suspect was arrested on sex crime charges. ", When Garcia states that Tommy re-emerged at 21 in Franklin, Indiana, she says that that's 300 miles away from Royal, Indiana. Crimes Serial rape Pedophilia Serial murder Attempted incrimination Type of Villain Perverted Serial Killer Carl Buford (later changed name to Mohammed Alam) is the main antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode "Profiler Profiled", and a supporting antagonist in the later episode "Restoration". Sells was executed by lethal injection at 6:14 PM on April 3, 2014. Brunswick Mission Church | See production, box office & company info. When Wheeler committed his last three arsons in Royal, he would set his fires in local gathering places, hoping that Jason would be in one of them. I don't know what love is. William Duke Mason | This didn't turn out well for Yates, as he was physically and psychologically abused by Trudy, who viewed him as a demonic bastard because of the circumstances of his conception and birth.