Collee, Marissa

SOCL1113
Professor Kovach
November 25, 2014

Criminal Minds Assignment

The episode watched comes from season eight and is titled, The Silencer. The episode
features a killer who escaped from prison. He was originally found guilty of killing four women
and sewing their mouths shut. After his escape, he murdered three men, and sewed their mouths
shut as well. His MO for the crime was the sewing of the mouths and his signature was the
messages he left behind. His first two victims after his escape had words left in their mouths,
Gazing through to the other side and Waiting on the taste of honey, the smell of summer.
His third and final victim was a father of a baby, the killer, John Meyers, left the baby and stole
the fathers car. This time, instead of leaving a message in the mouth of his victim, Meyers left
behind his tools used in his past murders.
All three victims were strangers to the un-sub. The first two circumstances were
arguments while the third was a robbery/hi-jacking. All three victims were white males, two of
them late forties to early fifties, the third early twenties. Meyers, the killer, was described as a
thirty-eight to forty-five year old male, he had a facial deformity on his left side and a scar
behind his left ear. As he has killed multiple times, Meyers would be considered a serial killer.
The BAU uses Meyers past case for insight into his new killings. As his original murders
were all women, they deduct that he had an issue with his mother. In his eight years of prison,
Meyers never spoke a word. The BAU believed this was because of a speech impediment he

was ridiculed for as a child. However, they investigate the scar behind his left ear and realize his
mother was paid $650.00 for an experimental hearing transplant when he was a child. Meyers
was mute and deaf until this happened. The BAU address the idea that the sudden ability to hear
was a challenge for Meyers and that his mother was abusive and desperate before the transplant.
In figuring out where he may strike next, the BAU identifies another inmate whose family owned
a honey farm. They realize Meyers is searching for peace, but the farm is no longer there. They
find the other inmates home as they believe Meyers would be upset his peace was not found. In
the end, the BAU finds him, but he unfortunately commits suicide for fear of going back to jail.
The most important team member is Penelope Garcia. She receives all the information
from the agents and finds whatever they may need through data bases and other resources in
order for them to identify the killer, his history, and where he will strike next. Without a
member like her, much more research and time would be used in order to find a killer.