Jesse Gentry

"This is gonna sound totally weird, but I was hoping we could do this one together."

Jesse Gentry was a budding serial killer and rapist who appeared in Season Nine of Criminal Minds.

Background
Jesse was one of two twins, the other being named Wallace. He was put up for adoption by his mother Carla, who found raising twins alone a difficult task. Adopted by the Gentrys in St. Mary's Church, Jesse grew up successfully, unlike his mentally-unstable brother, founding a lawyer firm alongside a man named Mark Anderson. When Carla became disappointed with Wallace, she came back into contact with Jesse, naming his father and setting up a trust fund. However, he apparently resented her, unsure why she chose to keep Wallace over him. Carla managed to gain his trust, though, by telling him that they will kill Wallace and he can become her true son, an offer Jesse couldn't refuse.

The Inspiration
Jesse is first seen in the episode being spotted by a police officer as he drives past him. Simultaneously, an alert was put out for Wallace after he shoots a security guard at his workplace in a local shopping mall. Panicking, Jesse speeds away and is eventually pursued by JJ, Morgan, and several police officers, who mistake him for Wallace. After a short car chase, he crashes into another car and is arrested by Morgan, displaying a calm demeanor all the while, something that the BAU discusses later. By the end of the episode, Jesse has his hand scanned while being booked, and the fingerprint comparison proves that he isn't Wallace, which shocks and puzzles the BAU and local police.

The Inspired
"She abandoned me!"

After being released from prison and threatening to sue the BAU, Jesse drives to his mother's house and ambushes Wallace when he arrives as well. He then goes to the house of one of his partners in the firm and ties Wallace to a chair. When Wallace wakes up, Jesse interrogates him about the murders. After being told about Wallace's actions and motivations, Jesse tries to drug him and releases him while he sleeps, but Wallace is revealed to have held back the pill while swallowing. That night, he tracks down and kills Vanessa Randall, copying Wallace's M.O. as much as he can. He returns home to find Wallace has freed himself, but promises not to leave since he has figured out that Jesse wants to become like him. When Jesse returns from walking his dog, one of his neighbors, Elizabeth Nash, approaches him and apologizes for saying that Wallace isn't his brother (the neighbor, in reality, had previously seen Wallace and mistook him for Jesse). Tricking her into coming inside, Jesse, together with Wallace, who was inside, rapes and kills her. They then go on the run. Later, Jesse asks Wallace where they can meet with Carla and Wallace replies "the church". Going to St. Mary's, the two meet up with Carla, who repeatedly infers Jesse to kill Wallace, but he has begun to identify more with Wallace than Carla. When Carla tries to leave, Jesse tries to kill her, only to be stopped by the devoted Wallace. The twins get into a fight, and Jesse is overpowered and killed by Wallace.

Modus Operandi
When he killed Vanessa Randall, Jesse copied Wallace's M.O. to the fullest extent, including the rape, the shooting in the heart, and the post-mortem posing, with the only difference being that he didn't force-feed her with any human parts. He specifically targeted Vanessa because she was a maternal twin. When he killed Elizabeth Nash together with Wallace, he also raped her and shot her in the heart, but also force-fed her her own finger, which he cut off.

Profile
No official profile of Jesse was made, although the team noted that he is a closet psychopath whose pathology synchronizes with Wallace almost perfectly. However, unlike Wallace, who was mentally unbalanced and emotional, Jesse was cool, calculated, and intelligent.

Known Victims

 * 2013:
 * September 28-29: Vanessa Randall
 * September 29:
 * Elizabeth Nash
 * Wallace Hines
 * Carla Hines

Appearances

 * Season Nine
 * "The Inspiration"
 * "The Inspired"