Vincent Perotta

Vincent Perotta is an unusual serial killer featured in season one. He is a hitman who also does random killings on the side.

Background
The BAU finds out that Vincent was abused by his father as a child. His father also physically abused his mother. That is also the reason that of all his victims only one was female. At the age of 14 Perrotta already had an alcohol addiction and several violent outbursts. He once threw a Molotov cocktail at someone sitting in their car. As paranoid personalities develop in childhood Gideon figures that as he was bullied and abused he was craving for revenge and became an abuser and bully himself as this is a logical progression.

Pathology
Vincent Perrotta suffers from anti-social personality disorder which basically means "never trust anyone with anything at anytime". He is a hitman working for Michael Russo - a man who has been involved in organized crime for several years. Perrotta is intelligent, organized, confident had been killing for a long time. Not all of his victims were mob hits but random people. He is a paranoid psychopath who has no conscience.

Modus Operandi
All of Vincents killings have been fairly random as far as method. They were all very violent and dramatic, just as one would suspect mob hits to be. The victims were usually horribly tortured first, then killed with one swift final stroke.

Known Victims

 * William and Helen DeMarco
 * Freddy Condor

Appearances

 * Season One
 * Natural Born Killer