Asher Douglas

"Would a partner have the skill set to splice Agent Aaron Hotchner's voice into a 911 call? Something no gamer's ever done before? No. I did that. Me."

Asher Douglas is the autistic son of serial killer Antonia Slade, who was manipulated by Eric Rawdon into swatting SSA Aaron Hotchner by posing as him. He appeared in The Storm.

Background
Asher was born to Antonia Slade and her unidentified boyfriend, who conceived him while they were still teenagers. Asher's father was later killed by his maternal grandfather, who covered up the death as a hunting accident. After Antonia was forced to give birth to him, she gave him away due to the shame he brought to her family. As he grew up, Asher was found to have Asperger syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism, and developed an affinity with computers and electrical systems. As an adult, he befriended Eric Rawdon, a psychopath affiliated with a group of anarchists and homegrown terrorists. Rawdon manipulated him into giving him information about the amount of explosives needed to destroy a city block, and later to pose as SSA Aaron Hotchner (who profiled Rawdon) as part of a swatting scheme. Asher purchased a spoofing software called "The Storm" and several audio-splicing programs, reviewed press conferences led by Hotch, and used some of them to create the warning "Today will change everything" in Hotch's voice. On September 28, 2016, under the cue of Rawdon's followers, Asher delivered the call to 911, successfully framing Hotch of conspiring an attack against the BAU headquarters in Quantico.

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * "The Storm"