Criminal Minds Timeline/1990-2000

''This is a timeline of events of Criminal Minds that occurred from 1990 to 2000. The timeline is incomplete and requires constant expansion.''

Early 1990s

 * Unspecified date: Roy Woodridge and his friend Max Weston are sent to Somalia when war breaks out there.

1990

 * Pre-May 5: Robert Burke is arrested twice for attempted rape, but was not convicted both times.
 * May 5: Robert Burke is arrested for four counts of rape.
 * Pre-September: By this point, Jacob Dawes has killed at least eighteen girls, hiding twelve of their bodies underneath his workshop and the other six in other locations.
 * September: Jacob Dawes is interviewed by police as a suspect for the disappearances of the girls he killed. Worrying the police will come back, Jacob plans to leave and orders his wife Sarah Jean Mason to kill their son Riley Dawes. Sarah instead gives Riley away to a family she cleaned for, the Sheffields, who rename the baby Bryon. She then tells Jacob she killed Riley. The police later return and arrest Jacob and Sarah at their home. Jacob is charged for the murders of the twelve girls underneath his workshop and Sarah is charged for the "murder" of their son. Both receive the death penalty.
 * October 28:
 * Scott Kagan is born.
 * Chase Whitaker is diagnosed with lymphoma.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Mark Gregory, then eighteen years old, commits consensual statutory rape with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend.
 * Douglas Silverman is born.

1991

 * August 13: Marcy Owens is born.
 * December: Carl Buford kills a boy who currently remains unidentified.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Owen Savage is born.
 * Nathan Harris is born.
 * Robert Burke is sentenced to eight years in prison for four counts of rape.
 * Trevor Burkett is born.

1992

 * October 12: Randall Garner's home is caught in a fire killing his wife, sons, and daughter, but manages to escape along with his other daughter Rebecca. The severity of his injuries, plus the scope of the tragedy, drives Randall insane and Rebecca is later taken in by the Bryants. Afterwards, Randall is institutionalized at the Bennington Sanitarium.
 * Unspecified date: Roderick Gless's nanny, Abigail Hansen, dies of a heart defect while watching him and he spends the next two to three days next to her body, before his parents return home.

1992-1993

 * Unspecified date: Jackson Cally is imprisoned for auto theft. While imprisoned, he is threatened by another inmate. In response, Cally manipulates yet another inmate to beat the first inmate to death.

1993

 * Pre-May 5: William O'Brien kills his wife Judy for her life insurance.
 * May 5: William O'Brien is arrested for the murder of his wife, as well as for arsons he committed.
 * Pre-October 3: Roy Woodridge and Max Weston are assigned to escort a United Nations aid caravan to a refugee camp during Operation Gothic Serpent. The caravan is ambushed in Mogadishu, but Roy and Max escape and take shelter in abandoned buildings, where they await rescue.
 * October 3-4: Roy Woodridge kills a twelve-year-old boy holding a machine gun to the head of Max Weston, but is traumatized by the incident.
 * c. October 4: Roy Woodridge and Max Weston find a damaged radio, repair it, and use it to summon a rescue crew.

1993-1994

 * Unspecified dates:
 * Greg Phinney's mother Nancy is killed in a car accident.
 * Willie Kestler's mother Beverly dies, and he is sent to live with his abusive grandfather Bill.

1994

 * February 13: George Kelling kills his mother M.R. and represses his memory of it. His mother's death is ruled as a suicide.
 * March 10: Greg Phinney's father Carl remarries to Greg's babysitter Kate Jones, who Greg fell in love with. Greg subsequently came to resent Kate, believing she made his father forget about his mother.
 * April 4: Dale Schrader commits his first bank robbery.
 * June 1: Dale Schrader commits his second bank robbery.
 * September 14: Dale Schrader commits his third bank robbery.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Jeffrey Charles is born.
 * Owen Porter is born.
 * Alan Anderson meets his future wife Judith. They later marry and kill their first victim together.

1994-1995

 * Unspecified date: Samantha Malcolm's mother dies.

1995

 * April 7: Dale Schrader commits his fourth bank robbery.
 * May 5: Greg Phinney is arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center after threatening Kate Jones with a knife.
 * July 9: Dale Schrader commits his fifth bank robbery.
 * December 22: Dale Schrader commits his sixth bank robbery.
 * Unspecified dates: George Foyet begins killing and is eventually dubbed "The Boston Reaper". At some point during the investigation, then-Detective Tom Shaunessy summons the BAU to assist the Boston Police Department in the case. Among the BAU agents is Aaron Hotchner; the Reaper case was his first case as a senior agent.

1996

 * January 19: George Foyet kills his girlfriend Amanda Bertram and then stabs himself in order to masquerade as a would-be victim of the Reaper.
 * February 6: Chase Whitaker kills his father Daniel after he abuses and nearly kills him.
 * March 17: Dale Schrader commits his seventh bank robbery.
 * June 16: Jenny Schrader, daughter of Dale and Connie Schrader, is born.
 * August 15: Dale Schrader commits his eighth bank robbery.
 * September 27: Dale Schrader commits his ninth bank robbery.
 * October 29: Dale Schrader commits his tenth bank robbery.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Francis Goehring marries a woman named Diane Marie.
 * Monica Kingston gives birth to a girl she names Hope.
 * Angel Suarez is born.

1997

 * January 5: Dale Schrader commits his eleventh bank robbery.
 * February 6: Jeremy Sayer is born.
 * March 17: Dale Schrader commits his twelfth bank robbery.
 * May 7: George Foyet kills Henry Alan Ward.
 * June 15: Dale Schrader commits his thirteenth bank robbery.
 * October 28: Dale Schrader commits his fourteenth bank robbery.
 * December 29: Jason Clark Battle takes a job in law enforcement.
 * Unspecified date: Toby Whitewood is born.

1998

 * January: Cortland Bryce Ryan kills Tina Banbury.
 * January 10: Donnie Bidwell is arrested on an assault charge.
 * February 11: George Foyet kills Renata Joyce and Keira Calder.
 * February 19: Sarah Danlin is raped by two men at a Mardi Gras party. It is investigated by the police, including Detectives William LaMontagne, Sr., and J.R. Smith, but Sarah is forced to drop the charges when she was convinced the men wouldn't be charged.
 * February 24: Sarah Danlin drops out of medical school.
 * February 24-c. May 5: Donnie Bidwell is arrested by Jason Gideon and the BAU on suspicion of murdering four nurses. He was held in jail for two weeks, then released after his DNA didn't match to that of the killer's. At some point afterward, Donnie receives a head injury, which induced a seizure disorder that required medication to control.
 * April: Cortland Bryce Ryan kills Julie Pargrove.
 * May 5: Soon after Donnie Bidwell's release, the real killer, Jack Lee Kemper, is arrested by the BAU before he can kill a fifth woman and is sentenced to death.
 * June:
 * Cortland Bryce Ryan kills Natalie Evercroft.
 * Vincent Rowlings kills Emily Flynn.
 * August: Cortland Bryce Ryan kills Annette Gratton.
 * September: Cortland Bryce Ryan kills a woman.
 * October: Cortland Bryce Ryan kills a woman.
 * November 11: Miranda Jakar kills a woman and her eight-month-old child in Zagreb, Croatia.

1998-1999

 * Cortland Bryce Ryan breaks into a home, but is caught in the act and arrested. He is tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death for his murders.

1999

 * May 5: Declan, the son of Ian Doyle and Chloe Donaghy, is born.
 * May 6: Vincent Rowlings kills Vanessa Bright.
 * November 7: Oley Maynor is arrested for biting heads off of live chickens.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Michael Earlson abducts Dustin Powers.
 * Jamal Abaza's son Amir is killed in an airstrike along with eleven other people.
 * The Roycewoods abduct Karla Hartaway.
 * Blake Wells kills his father Chuck for abandoning him and his mother as well as abusing him.

1999-2000

 * Bill Hodges scams a married couple and an elderly couple in San Francisco, California.
 * Greg Phinney is institutionalized by his father Carl after Kate Jones files numerous reports against him for violent behavior and animal cruelty.

2000

 * March 4: Vincent Rowlings kills Hillary Habner.
 * May: Floyd Hansen is incarcerated for burglary and attempted rape.
 * September 3: Miranda Jakar kills a mother and her two children in Modena, Italy.
 * September 29: The Roycewoods abduct Jake Wusman.
 * Unspecified dates:
 * Spencer Reid has his mother Diana committed to the Bennington Sanitarium, a mental institution.
 * Andrew Kane divorces his wife due to his strangulation fetish.
 * Mason Turner graduates from medical school.
 * Joe Belser is placed in the prestigious Southern Charleston Preparatory Academy by his parents.
 * Blake Wells kills Carol Reed.
 * Harvey Morell has his friend Caleb Rossmore kill Bobby Shaw, the younger brother of Harvey's bully, and bury his body.
 * Nate Turner, the father of David Roy Turner, dies.