Ray Mathis

RECURRING CHARACTER
Name	Ray Mathis
Gender	Male
Occupation	Coroner
Status	Alive
Portrayed By	Bruno Oliver
First Appearance	"The Stranger"
Last Appearance	"The Pact"

Doctor Ray Mathis is a minor recurring character on Criminal Minds.

Background

Absolutely nothing is known about Mathis, other than he got a job as a coroner in San Diego, California. He has shown members of the BAU the bodies of victims whenever they investigate cases in San Diego.

Season Six

The Stranger

Mathis shows Hotch and Rossi the bodies of Greg Phinney's first three victims and points out the defensive wounds on their arms. He also confirms Hotch's question that the number of stab wounds increased with each victim, adding that the first victim's stab wounds showed hesitation, with the fatal wounds being directed at the heart. When Rossi asks if the wounds indicated the unsub had medical knowledge, Mathis says the unsub could have gotten lucky. He then says that by the time the unsub claimed his third victim, he had grown confident.

Season Eight

The Pact

Mathis reunites with Rossi and is introduced to Blake while showing them the bodies of Brenda Wipley and Mark Logan, the victims of Ellen Russell and Darlene Beckett. He asks Rossi if it really took the Los Angeles medical examiner four hours to find Logan's entire body, and Rossi confirms it. Mathis comments that Wipley had it easy, since she was killed by a series of blows to the head and dragged by a car post-mortem rather than ante-mortem.

Notes

• Mathis is the second of nine characters in a medical profession who appeared more than once in the show's history. The others are:
  • Season Two
    • Doctor Tony Wilson ("The Big Game") - Reappeared in the Season Ten episode "The Itch".
  • Season Six
    • Doctor Samuel Bayo ("Sense Memory") - Reappeared in the Season Eleven episode "A Badge and a Gun" and later in the Season Fourteen episode "Broken Wing".
    • Doctor Sherman ("Valhalla" and "Supply and Demand")
  • Season Seven
    • Doctor Stacey Carroll ("Epilogue") - Reappeared in the Season Eight episode "The Fallen".
    • M.E. Cranston ("There's No Place Like Home") - Reappeared in the Season Eleven episode "The Sandman".
  • Season Eight
    • Doctor Weiss ("The Replicator") - Reappeared in the Season Ten episodes "Fate", "Nelson's Sparrow", and "The Hunt". Then she reappeared in the Season Thirteen episode "All You Can Eat".
  • Season Nine
    • Doctor Taylor ("The Return") - Reappeared in the Season Thirteen episode "The Dance of Love".
    • Doctor Pat Lewis ("The Inspiration") - Reappeared in the Season Eleven episode "Awake".

Appearances

Criminal Minds

Season Six

• "The Stranger"

Season Eight

• "The Pact"