| “ | I like to think of these roses as the souls of the forgotten, just like this poor, young man right here. | ” |
— Roger
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Roger Roycewood was an abductor and the submissive partner of a husband-and-wife killing team with his wife, Anita. They appeared in the Season Five episode of Criminal Minds, "Mosley Lane".
Background[]
Not much is known about Roger, other than he worked as an electrician for his entire adult life. He eventually married Anita Weld, the daughter of a family that owned a funeral home. In 1999, the two, for unspecified reasons, abducted Karla Hartaway from Garrisonville, Virginia, and kept her as if she were their own child. They repeated this abduction process once every following year. Whenever any of the children grew too old or ambivalent, Anita would kill them by drugging them and burning their unconscious bodies in the funeral home's crematorium.
Mosley Lane[]
See section on The Roycewoods page
Modus Operandi[]
See section on The Roycewoods page
Real-Life Comparison[]
Both the Roycewoods seem to have been based on Helmuth Schmidt - Both three were serial killers (The Roycewoods collectively, while Schmidt is suspected) who killed their victims in a place with a crematorium, used said crematorium to incinerate their victims and scattered their ashes, both Roger and Schmidt married a woman named Anita, their spouses were suspected of being their accomplices (though it was actually true and Anita was the dominant partner in the Roycewoods' case), and both Roger and Schmidt committed suicide before they could be convicted of their crimes.
Known Victims[]
Note: All of the dates denote when and where the victims were abducted
- Virginia:
- Unspecified date in 1999, Garrisonville: Karla Hartaway, 8
- Unspecified date in 2001, Bowling Green: Ryan Dowerman, 8
- March 3, 2002, Leesburg: Charlie Hillridge (Anita later attempted to kill him; he escaped on March 3, 2010)
- February 11, 2003, Arlington: Stephen Shepherd (abducted from a toy store; killed by Anita on March 2, 2010)
- January 14, 2004, Linden: Dylan Hedgecliff
- June 12, 2005, Purcellville: Danny Kenman, 7 (abducted from a mall)
- April 4, 2006, Manassas: Mae Hall (Anita later attempted to kill her; she escaped on March 3, 2010)
- September 24, 2006,[1] Culpepper: Tracie Caine, 9 (abducted from a park)
- September 6, 2007,[1] Lynchburg: Kayla Pargrave, 6
- June 13, 2008,[1] Auburn: Austin Manford, 7
- March 15, 2009, Fredericksburg: Hannah Bidon, 6
- March 2, 2010, Ashburn: Aimee Lynch, 8 (Anita later attempted to kill her; she escaped the next day)
Trivia[]
- The dates of Tracie Caine, Kayla Pargrave, and Austin Manford's abductions are listed a year later on the BAU's evidence board than they are on Garcia's computer screen. This is most likely an error on the designer's part.