The Unknown Subject: A Criminal Minds Podcast

Hurricanes! Jack the Ripper! Mardi Gras beads! This week’s episode has a little bit of everything. The team travels to New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, hoping to solve the bloody murders of several men in the French Quarter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ask and you shall receive-- it’s a bonus, bonus episode! Kelly and Kelsie are re-ranking their favorite team members and discussing how far the team has come since season one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The team flies to Houston to investigate several murders at construction sites, and discover that the unsub isn’t their typical killer, but a veteran with extreme PTSD. Meanwhile, Reid continues to deal with the fallout of the Tobias Hankel debacle, and everyone starts to notice he’s being a real jerk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

African-American girls are getting murdered in a small community in New York, and initially appears to be a series of hate crimes turns out to be a serial killer collecting young girls’ voices as trophies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Unknown Subject is back for the conclusion to last week’s episode, which ended with JJ’s and Reid’s lives on the line. Tobias Hankel and his murderous personalities aren’t finished yet, and the team races to save one of their own before it’s too late. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we’re watching one of the most memorable episodes of Criminal Minds ever, starring one of our favorite guest stars, James Van Der Beek! It’s just like Dawson’s Creek-- if Dawson’s Creek was set in backwoods Georgia and Dawson had an abusive, religious fanatic for a father who commanded him to murder people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The team is called to a tiny Nevada town to track down a serial killer who Gideon has been tracking for three decades. All of Gideon’s tête-à-têtes have been practice for this one, folks! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The team is forced to profile one of their own this week, as Derek is forced to deal with his past after being accused of murder. This episode’s a real punch to the gut, so get your tissues ready. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks to a suggestion from one of our Instagram followers, on this week’s bonus episode we’re ranking the most fascinating unsubs we’ve covered so far in seasons one and two. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When an awkward teenager approaches Reid out of the blue and starts asking questions about murdered sexworkers, the team discovers there’s a serial killer on the loose in Washington D.C. Is Reid’s teen informant a budding sociopath with a body count, or can the team save him before he becomes one? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gideon’s going head to head with a terrorist this week as the team races to stop a terror cell from attacking one of America’s most sacred of institutions—  a shopping mall.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Apparently opposites really do attract, even among serial killers. Two killers with totally different M.O’s and victim pools have become murdery pen pals in St. Louis, and the BAU must pit the unsubs against each other in order to bring them to justice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Inspired by a subpar science fiction book and an apparent distrust of technology, an unsub is detonating bombs– somewhat unsuccessfully– all across Seattle. The BAU is called in to  investigate, but it soon becomes clear that the motivation behind all of it is actually far less interesting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a very special episode of the Unknown Subject as we watch Kelly’s long-awaited trigger episode. Follow along while Kelly hyperventilates over three teenage girls with an impossible choice to make— all thanks to unsub with a petty axe to grind. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week’s episode, the team heads to Texas to find an unsub who’s killing children in the woods, but the murderer ends up being the last person anyone would suspect. We also say later days to Elle, who is forced to deal with the fallout of her decision to go rogue.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The team is hunting for a rapist with a very specific goal in mind, but when the investigation doesn’t turn out the way it should, one of the team members takes things into their own hands.  It’s a watershed episode of Criminal Minds, and Kelsie and Kelly have a lot to say about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the Unknown Subject the BAU takes on its oddest case yet. The team is called in to help the L.A.P.D. bring down a bankrobber who makes his victims take their clothes off, so get ready to talk about a lot of old people in their underwear. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a two-for-one deal on sweaty unsubs this week as the BAU looks for a duo who kidnap women and send their torture videos to the victims’ mothers.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our friends at the BAU are taking on the creepiest corner of the internet as they race against time to save a young boy from being auctioned off to the highest, grossest bidder.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re back for the second season of the Unknown Subject! In the follow up episode to last season’s cliffhanger, Kelly and Kelsie do their best to keep up with the resolution of the Fisher King’s murdery quest, but Sadie’s having none of it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get out your excitement horns, Binge Buddies! In this bonus episode we’re ranking our top five episodes of the first season of Criminal Minds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s the season one finale of the Unknown Subject! In the first half of a two-parter, the team is on a much-needed vacation when each member is drawn into a cryptic quest involving baseball cards, butterflies, and a mystery woman in a dungeon.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s spies versus profilers on this episode of the Unknown Subject. Our friends at the BAU are called in to find a mole in the CIA, but can they identify the unsub in time to save an informant and her children? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The BAU knows exactly who this week’s unsub is— he’s a creep named Mark— but that doesn’t mean he’ll be easy to find. Kelly and Kelsie are taking the Binge Buddies along for the ride on this wild goose chase. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In an unexpectedly deep episode of the Unknown Subject, we’re headed south of the border as the BAU hunts an unsub killing old women in a small Mexican town.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.