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Matthew F. "Matt" Hale is a Neo-Nazi who was the founder of the Creativity Movement, a branch of Creativity.

Background
Hale was born on July 27, 1941, and raised in East Peoria, Illinois. He had at least one brother. When he was twelve years old, he was reading books about Nazism, including Mein Kampf by German dictator Adolf Hitler. On August 1989, he entered Bradley University and studied in political science, later writing editorials in the university's newspaper, in which he espoused his white supremacist views. When he invited the white supremacist organization the Ku Klux Klan to the school campus in 1990, Hale was expelled. At the age of nineteen, Hale burned an Israeli flag at a demonstration, and the following year, he was fined for littering after passing out racist pamphlets at a shopping mall. On May 1991, Hale and his brother allegedly threatened three African-Americans with a gun, and Hale was initially charged with felony obstruction of justice after refusing to disclose his brother's location to police, but he was able to win a reversal on appeal. The following year, he assaulted a shopping mall security guard and was sentenced to thirty months of probation, plus six months of house arrest for the crime. On 1993, despite his expulsion, Hale graduated from Bradley University with a degree of political science. Three years later, he founded the New Church of the Creator (later to be renamed the World Church of the Creator and then the Creativity Movement), a revival of Ben Klassen's religious group Creativity, which held extreme white supremacist views. Hale was eventually appointed as the third "Pontifex Maximus".

Benjamin Smith
"I'm not blind. I can see that people of color do create a lot of problems for our country. It's not a personal thing. It's really just a concern with my own people."

Smith was born on April 22, 1978 in Illinois and was raised in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette. He had two younger brothers. He attended New Trier High School in Winnetka; in his class statement in his senior yearbook, he wrote, "Sic semper tyrannis", which was Latin for "Thus always to tyrants"; this phrase was shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. After graduating from New Trier High, Smith attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, but later dropped out on 1998 after several conflicts with campus authorities. He then transferred to Indiana University in Bloomington, where he studied criminal justice. According to police reports, Smith was known for passing out racist fliers against Jews, African-Americans, and Asians on university campuses. On October 1998, he was the subject of a story on his university's public broadcasting station. Sometime prior to his shooting spree, Smith became a follower of the Creativity Movement and was actually a disciple of Hale himself.

Known Victims

 * The 1999 killing spree:
 * July 2:
 * West Ridge, Chicago, Illinois: Eight unnamed Orthodox Jewish members
 * Skokie, Illinois: Ricky Byrdsong, 43
 * July 3, Decatur, Illinois: Unnamed African-American minister
 * July 4, Bloomington, Indiana: Won-Joon Yoon, 26
 * Note: Smith also shot at nine other people, but missed them.

Known Victims

 * May 1991: Three unnamed African-Americans
 * Unspecified date in 1992: Unnamed shopping mall security guard
 * Unspecified date in 2002-2003: Judge Joan Lefkow

On Criminal Minds
While he wasn't mentioned or referenced in Criminal Minds, Wilder was said by Virgil Williams to have been the inspiration behind the case of Trevor Mills, the prominent unsub of the Season Seven episode A Thin Line.