Tony Canardo

Anthony Paul "Tony" Canardo is the submissive member of a two-man killing team led by his wife, Amber Canardo.

Background
Tony's mother was a drug addict who gave him up when he was four. She got him back when she became clean, but was incarcerated for prostitution when he was eleven. After that, he bounced around in the care of Social Services, growing up to become a criminal (exactly what he was convicted of is never specified). During a stint in jail, he met Joey Davin, who would later, possibly unknowingly, aid him and Amber in their murders by disposing of their victims' cars outside state lines. They worked together at a car body shop until they were both fired; Tony because he had too much control over Joey and Joey because he wasn't very competent. Under the control of Amber, Tony aided her in her murders of young girls.

The Perfect Storm
Tony first comes on the BAU's﻿ radar after Joey is shot and killed when they come to his house to question him about his involvment. When Garcia goes through prison records, she learns that the two were cell mates. When Derek goes to talk to him outside his and Amber's home, Tony assaults him with a baseball bat, but is subdued. In custody, Tony remains defensive when questioned by Hotch (who, along with the rest of the BAU, believe him to be the leader and Joey to have been the submissive) and denies killing anyone, not denying that Joey was involved. They send Amber, who has feigned being physically abused by Tony, to the room to get him to talk. Inside, they subtextually argue about the murders and the fact that Tony was only part of the latter ones (Amber had her current boyfriend aid her in the killings before she met and married Tony). On her instruction, he (falsely) tells about a storage space to which Joey allegedly brought the victims. While Hotch and Derek go to it, Amber leaves to finish off their last victim. When Elle goes through Tony's background, she is surprised that he is the dominant. Gideon and Reid go through video footage of Amber talking to Tony and the way he watches the crime scene photos. Their suspicions are confirmed when Garcia calls, having seperated the audio on one of their torture videos, and tells them that Amber can be heard giving Tony instructions and verbally abusing the victim. Gideon confronts Tony, who initially remains adamant that he and Joey were the killers. He caves when he learns that the DNA evidence proves that Amber had killed men before they met and the fact that she is letting Tony take the fall for the murders and tells them about the cabin in the woods where they kept their victims. Tony then presumably went to prison for his involvment in the murders.

Modus Operandi
Tony and Amber would abduct their victims﻿ together. After taking the victims to the cabin, they would torture them with beatings and cuts and have Tony rape them (since Amber was physically incapable of doing so herself) with her videotaping him and giving him instructions from behind the camera. After Amber killed the girls by strangling them, initially manually but then by ligature, Tony would dispose of the bodies semi-naked and placed in demeaning positions in the wilderness.

Profile
Tony was initially profiled to be the leader of the team, but it is gradually revealed that, beneath his "tough guy" exterior, he is actually deeply insecure, especially in his relationship with Amber. The BAU realized that he wasn't the leader in part because of his upbringing, during which he'd had absolutely no security or stability and shouldn't therefore have the confidence to commit serial murder.

Known Victims
''All the women on this list were killed by Amber. Tony raped and tortured them and disposed of the bodies while Amber killed them.''
 * Amanda (first victim killed via ligature strangulation)
 * Abbey Roxford
 * Madison B.
 * Bonnie Mossenberg


 * Laura Clemensen (additionally, Laura's father Frank suffered a fatal heart attack after viewing the DVD depicting her torture)


 * Derek Morgan