Rhett Walden

Rhett Walden is a murderer who appeared in Season Six of Criminal Minds.

Background
Rhett was the only son of actress May Walden. She became pregnant with Rhett during her first and only movie called Reflection of Desire. The father was her co-star, also named Rhett. Once she got pregnant, her career was ruined. As Rhett was growing up, he would get verbal and emotional abuse from his mother, blaming him for her ruin. He would then develop a love/hate feeling towards his mother that seemed to border on incest. Before the events of Reflection of Desire, his mother died. He kept her corpse hidden inside the house, but, in his mind, she was still alive. She interacted with him daily in his hallucinations.

Modus Operandi
Rhett would kidnap females ranging from age 19 to 24 with blonde hair. He would then imprison them in a special room in his house, dressing them up to resemble his mother in her prime. During their imprisonment, the victims would be forced to re-enact a scene from his mother's last movie. If they were not convincing, he would knock them out with chloroform and drive them to a secluded spot. When the victim wakes up, they would be fooled into thinking that they are free. When they attempt to escape, Rhett will come out with a plastic bag and wrap it around her head, suffocating her, and dump her body. Postmortem, he used a razor blade to remove his first victim's lips and place them on the face of his mother's body. When he kidnapped Penny, he used the same blade to remove her toes.

Profile
Rhett is a delusional schizophrenic, meaning his entire perception of reality is clouded with hallucinations. He believed his mother was still alive and interacted with her on a regular basis. His insanity is made obvious at the end of the episode when he (believing he was escorting his mother into a red carpet VIP appearance), walked out of his house with his mother's mummified corpse in his arms. By the time he got on his knees, he begins to laugh hysterically.

Known Victims

 * Kelly Landis
 * Penny Hanley