The Roycewoods

Anita and Roger Roycewood were an abducting and killing team who appeared in Season Five of Criminal Minds. Led by Anita, the two would abduct children and hold them captive in their home on Mosley Lane in Ashburn Virginia for some time, before killing them.

Background
Little of the Roycewoods' past is revealed, but what is known is that Anita's family, the Welds, owned a funeral home, while Roger worked as an electrician his entire adult life. In the early 2000's, the two began abducting eight year-old children, forcing their first victim, a boy named Charlie Hillridge, to aid them in the kidnappings as he grew older. The children were kept in a hidden hallway in the basement, had their names and physical appearances changed and were physically abused, eventually being drugged and burned in Anita's family crematorium once they grew too old or uncontrollable.

Modus Operandi
In a crowded, public place, Anita, spotting a suitable child, would make a scene by pretending to have lost her own child, distracting bystanders. As Anita created a panic, Roger would grab the child and duck into an idling van, driven by Charlie, Anita joining him moments later.

Anita and Roger would keep the abducted children in a hallway hidden behind a hinged bookcase in their basement. The children would be renamed, have their appearance altered to some degree (Aimee Lynch had her hair dyed darker) and would be physically, and possibly sexually, abused. As a child grew older, or simply became too ambivalent, Anita would drug them and burn them alive in her family's crematorium, having Roger dispose of the ashes in his rose garden.

Known Victims

 * Charlie Hillridge
 * Tracy Kane
 * Jake Wusman
 * Danny Kenman
 * Numerous other unnamed children
 * Mae
 * Stephen Shepherd
 * Aimee Lynch

Appearances

 * Season Five
 * "Mosley Lane"