Eric Olson

Eric Ryan Olson is a serial killer who appears in Zoe's Reprise in Season Four.

Profile
The BAU profile of Eric was someone young, socially immature, of average intelligence with psychopathic personality traits

Modus Operandi
Eric was a copycat killer who initially copied the M.O.:s of famous serial killers, such as Son of Sam and the BTK Killer. Later, he became a serial strangler, garroting people on the ground, from the front, kissing their foreheads to feel the heat leave their bodies.

Known victims
Travis Bartlett (lured from a gay bar, copied from The Butcher of Kingsbury Run) Lily Nicks (a prostitute who had her throat slashed, copied from Jack the Ripper) June Appleby and Troy Woersler (two students shot in a car, copied from Son of Sam) Kayla James (was raped and suffocated, copied from The BTK Killer) Zoe Hawkes (incidental, was strangled with her own scarf)