Criminal Minds And The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)

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For this journal entry I chose to review the television show, Criminal Minds viewed on 4/11/16. The show, Criminal Minds is based on a team of FBI Profilers who analyzes the un-sub (perpetrator) criminal minds and tries to anticipate the perpetrator’s next move in hopes of apprehending them. Most cases involve a serial killer.

In this episode, the Behavioral Analysis Unit, (BAU), is called in to investigate when three people have been murdered in two separate incidents in Los Angeles, California. Ballistics shows the victims were shot multiple times with the same .45 caliber handgun.

The first victim was a male, Gary Fisher, he was known to frequent the areas where prostitutes hang out. The second and third victims, Nate Cochran and Tasha Brooks were found in a car together, believed to be a john and a hooker. While the team is investigating these murders, another murder takes place (outside, under an overpass) whereby it seems an elderly white woman, Clara Miller and what appears to be a mugger, a black male, Lamar Taylor are found dead, Lamar from multiple gunshots and a beating and
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Danny then hears Lindsey tell him to kill Christopher, Danny shoots Christopher 13 times, Lindsey then ran away. When the BAU interviews Lindsey, she states that Christopher was her boyfriend and they were kissing and making out when Danny appeared and pulled Christopher off of her and says that he (Christopher) was trying to rape her, and proceeded to shoot Christopher multiple times, Lindsey states she then ran away. This was just another episode of Danny hearing and seeing things that were not real, but what he wanted to

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