Andrew Meeks

Andrew Meeks is a spree killer who appeared in Season Eleven of Criminal Minds.

Background
As a child, Meeks was abused by his stepfather, who would make him wear soiled underwear over his face while in public. While attending high school, he was pranked by several classmates when group of girls lured him in and a boy wrapped him inside a gym mattress, which nearly suffocated him. In a fit of rage, he later attempted to kill the boy who wrapped him in the mattress, but was caught and sent to prison. During his time in prison, he got a tattoo of a spiderweb on the left side of his neck. Though an evaluation recommended him to be sent to a psychiatric facility, Meeks was paroled by a judge to lessen prison overcrowding. He was placed in a program specializing in reintegrating recent parolees back into society, and came under the wing of former FBI agent Ed Sulzbach, who helped get him a job. However, Sulzbach came across Meeks's file one day, saw the mental evaluation on him, and tried calling a psychiatric facility to get him committed. Realizing this, Meeks killed Sulzbach and seized the opportunity to steal supplies belonging to him, including his old FBI suit and credentials. He then went on a killing spree, targeting all women as surrogates to the girls who lured him in during the high-school prank.

Modus Operandi
Meeks first killed Sulzbach by shooting him in the chest with a handgun, then stole his old FBI gear, including credentials. Then, he targeted random women living low-risk lifestyles, who were all living near crime scenes involving rape and/or murder (which he would find out through a police radio stolen from Sulzbach). After scouting the neighborhoods where the crimes occurred, he would select his victim and go up to the doorsteps of their homes. Once they would open the door for him, Meeks would charm them into letting him into their homes by posing as an FBI agent investigating the crimes that occurred nearby. Once he was inside, he would keep up the facade by asking them a couple of questions. When the victims were in a vulnerable position, Meeks would attack them from behind, put them in a chokehold, and knock them out by non-fatally smothering them. Afterwards, he would wrap their entire bodies in some sort of item, like a curtain or their own sheets, and asphyxiate them to death once they regained consciousness. Once they did, he left their bodies wrapped in the items, which was his signature.

Known Victims

 * Unspecified date: Unnamed high-school classmate
 * 2016:
 * Unspecified date: Ed Sulzbach
 * February 23: Gertrude Smiles
 * February 24:
 * Isabella Jane
 * Patricia Brannon
 * Mary Lenahan
 * The attempted setup:
 * Unnamed undercover female police officer
 * Detective Bob Oliver
 * The DUI checkpoint standoff:
 * Unnamed woman
 * Jennifer Jareau
 * Officer Jim Gray

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "A Badge and a Gun"