Omnivore (pathology)

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An Omnivore is a category of serial killers that describes a serial killer that has no specific pattern in victimology, or at least a pattern that is extremely difficult to discern. Omnivores are also stated to be willing to target anyone. It should be noted that spree killers and mass murderers are practically omnivores themselves, as they usually have no specific victimology, but the Omnivore category is apparently exclusive to only serial killers.

On Criminal Minds
Note: As the Omnivore category is exclusive to only serial killers, spree killers and mass murderers depicted on the show will be excluded from this list.
 * Adrian Bale ("Won't Get Fooled Again") - Though not much is specified about his bombings prior to his incarceration, it is possible that Adrian, as a sociopath, randomly picked out his victims.
 * David Walker ("Won't Get Fooled Again") - After bombing his first victim, who was murdered to prevent her from exposing his secret as a con man, Walker began randomly picking out victims and bombing them in order to ensure local authorities don't trace a connection between him and the first victim.
 * Vincent Perotta ("Natural Born Killer") - Whenever he worked off-duty as a hitman, Perotta would select random people and kill them for the pleasure and thrill of it.
 * Frank Breitkopf ("No Way Out" and "No Way Out II") - During the former part of his killings, Frank was a perfect example of an omnivore, traveling around the country and randomly killed people. However, he had a pattern in victimology that was difficult to discern that Gideon and Garcia had to find it out by grouping the victims by age: Frank usually targeted people aged between 30 and 40.
 * Stanley Howard ("Scared to Death") - Stanley only had one pattern in victimology: he targeted people who had a worst fear. Otherwise, his method of killing his victims wildly varied, as his way of killing them was using their worst fears against them.
 * Jason Clark Battle ("Lucky" and "Penelope") - Battle would drive beside a random pedestrian and shoot him or her with a revolver. He would then immediately return to the scene in an attempt to save them, as he suffered from Hero Syndrome.
 * Peter Redding ("A Higher Power") - Peter had only one victimology pattern: he, in a warped sense of mercy, targeted the parents of children who perished in a school fire. Otherwise, how he killed his victims was of a wild variety, but the murders would always resemble a suicide.
 * Shooters of the New York Terrorist Cell ("Lo-Fi") - A shooter would always randomly pick out a pedestrian and shoot them at the back of the head in almost point-blank range.
 * Armando Salinas ("Catching Out") - After getting off a freight train, Armando would choose a house located near the railroads that had no to little security, gain entry, and bludgeon the resident(s) to death with an incidental object.
 * George Foyet ("Omnivore", "...And Back", "Nameless, Faceless", and "100") - During the former part of his killings, George was a perfect example of an omnivore, randomly killing couples in Boston. He was also noted to kill lone victims, such as his own girlfriend, killed to throw local authorities off of him in case they suspected him.
 * Ian Coakley ("Roadkill") - Ian had only one victimology pattern: he targeted the owners of red coupes. Otherwise, the victims would vary in several different prospects.
 * Earl Bulford ("The Eyes Have It") - Aside from his first murder, which was done spontaneously, Earl randomly chose one to two victims and waited until they were at a secluded location before ambushing them, killing them, and removing their eyes.
 * Miranda Jakar ("Outfoxed") - While traveling to the U.S., Miranda, whenever under psychotic breakdowns, would murder random people (although the international victims were all coincidentally families).
 * Will and Chris Summers ("Risky Business") - Will and a reluctant Chris would use their website to manipulate random teenagers browsing online into choking themselves, sometimes fatally, in order to achieve a high that is supposed to occur afterwards.
 * Connor O'Brien ("Public Enemy") - Connor would arrive at a public location, randomly choose a person to kill, and then slash said person's throat, killing him or her. It should be noted that Connor later devolves into a spree killer, making his placement in the Omnivore category debatable.
 * John Vincent Bell ("The Fight") - John would abduct a random male vagrant and take them to his family's abandoned gym, where he pitted him against a father that was also kidnapped along with his daughter. The two would fight, and whoever loses gets shot and killed by John. The first few fights always resulted in the father winning, but the father would eventually lose a fight, resulting in his and his daughter's own deaths.
 * Owen Porter ("Exit Wounds") - Owen only had one pattern in victimology: he targeted people who were planning to leave his hometown. Otherwise, his method of killings his victims wildly varied.
 * Blake Wells ("Big Sea") - Blake would randomly pick a victim he found through his job as a train conductor, take them to his fishing boat, blow a drug called trilomide in their face, which puts them in a hypnotic state, and he would manipulate them into killing themselves.

Real World

 * David Berkowitz
 * Dennis Rader
 * Richard Ramirez