Dana Seavers

"Ryan's mine, you slut!"

Dana Seavers is a delusional, female serial killer and abductor who appeared in Season Eleven of Criminal Minds.

Background
As a child, Dana was obese and eventually developed polycystic ovary syndrome, for which she received treatment for most of her life. The symptoms and conditions that accompanied it caused her to become severely depressed and receive further treatment for it. Dana also developed an obsessive tendency to chew on her nails. Ever since the seventh grade, she fell in love with Ryan Becker, a classmate of hers, after the two went on a date at the school dance. During her adult years, Dana moved in with her sister Nicole and started working at her flower shop, which the latter inherited from their late mother. Ryan also found employment at the shop as a wedding photographer, and the repeated exposure to him caused Dana to develop an elaborate fantasy world in which she and Ryan were married. Her belief in her delusions came to the point where she set up a wedding registry in her and Ryan's names, which she used to purchase a number of items. Her psychosis escalated to the point where she viewed brides-to-be, who Ryan came across in the line of work, as threats after observing them making small talk with him, which she believed to be flirtatious exchanges. As a result, she started killing them, all the while driven by a hallucination of Ryan.

Modus Operandi
Dana targeted brides-to-be who she observed interacting with Ryan and misinterpreted their conversations with him as flirting. She would follow them at bars where they drank with their bridesmaids and waited for them to leave the building, after which she would attack them by beating them in the head with a blunt instrument. While the first victim was killed by the blow, the second and third victims were knocked out, after which Dana would carry them to the basement of the flower shop. There, she tied them down to a table, held them captive for a while, and (at the behest of the hallucination of Ryan) strangle them to death with their own wedding sash. The victims' bodies were then disposed in dumpsters with the wedding sashes wrapped around their heads as a signature. The third victim also had the word "Slut" written with lipstick on her forehead post-mortem. During her attack on Nicole, she knocked her out by beating her in the head with a shovel and tied her to a makeshift cross set up for a mock-wedding ceremony.

Known Victims

 * 2015:
 * July: Brandy Greene
 * October 9: Ashley Wilcox
 * October 11: Madison Mills
 * October 13: Nicole Seavers

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "'Til Death Do Us Part"