Owen Savage

Owen Savage first appeared in Elephant's Memory.

Background
Owen was a student at in West Bune, Texas. His mother, Hope, died in a drunk driving accident in 2002, leaving him to be raised by his father, Lou Savage, who was a Marine serving in Afghanistan at the time. He resented his dead wife and son since he had to leave to take care of Owen. Owen had learning difficulties and frequently suffered mental abuse from him, who thought he was simply stupid. Owen did in fact have A:s in Math and Science, but had D:s in English and History due to reading difficulties and an F in Geometry and a barely legible handwriting due to problems with spacial relations. In an attempt to please his father, he joined the school wrestling team in his first year, but left it when it turned out that the other members had filmed him when he masturbated in the shower room and posted it on the schools social network from which it presumably reached the Internet. The school didn't want to complicate the situation unnecessarily and didn't report the incident. Owen's father then blamed him him for the whole incident.

During his time in school, he became romantically involved with Jordan Norris, a fellow student who also had learning difficulties, was mentally abused by her father, Rod Norris, and had lost her mother when she left her husband. The two made a plan to leave West Bune together and never return. When her father took away her cell phone, Owen bought her a PDA.

Elephant's Memory
At some point in his life Owen finally snapped. His father's position as a Deputy Sheriff and tactical trainer with the local police gave him access to a lot of automatic rifles and handguns. He eventually started a revenge plan. First, he made a temporary home for him and Jordan at a ranch whose owner was away. He planted explosives in the entrance of the Norris' residence. When Rod Norris walked in while smoking a cigarette, they went off, killing him. Prior to the explosion, Owen had arranged for Jordan's staged death by stuffing three hams and a dozen bone-in ribeyes in a pair of her jeans and placing them in the area of the explosion. When Lou Savage and Officer Byron Letts from the local police came to investigate, Owen shot them with automatic fire from a vantage point, killing them both, and walked up to his father and shot him at point-blank range in the face.

After the incident, the BAU were called in. Owen then killed Kyle Borden, a 19 years old former student who slept with Jordan when she was a freshman and told everyone about it. Owen then killed the three students who videotaped him years earlier and executed them near a lake. He also videotaped it and palced it on the school's social network. Later, he also killed Ike Stratman, the owner of the ranch when he returned unexpectedly. He kept all of his murders a secret from Jordan. Spencer Reid of the BAU related to Owen strongly, having also suffered a lot of bullying during his time in school. Eventually, they decided to save Jordan's life by convincing her to leave Owen, taking away his only reason to live and causing him to kill himself. They were helped by Eileen, a friend of Jordan, and told her about what Owen had done, even showing her his video recording of the execution, but since she only trusted Owen, she didn't believe them. When she saw him burying Stratman, however, she ran away.

Owen, heartbroken by the whole incident, dressed up in black, armed himself with an assault rifle and headed to the local police station where Jordan was hiding. Reid, caring for Owen, approached him and even blocked his colleagues' line of sight and was able to talk him into surrendering.

Profile
Owen's behavior indicated that he was a type of school shooter known as an injustice collector who tried to avenge percieved wrongs. The reason why he hadn't simply attacked the school and then killed himself like Harris and Klebold, the Columbine shooters or Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter, was Jordan, who gave him a reason to live. Owen is smart and competent with technology. He identified with Johnny Cash since he was a "misunderstood loner". Owen has a severe fright of abandonment as a result of his mother's death.

Known Victims

 * Roy Norris
 * Lou Savage
 * Byron Letts
 * Kyle Borden (shot in the face)
 * The three unnamed students who videotaped him
 * Ike Stratman (unwillingly)

Appearance

 * Season 3, Episode 16; Elephant's Memory