A.J. Cook told Collider while promoting “Criminal Minds: Evolution” that the story of a serial killer creating a network of murderers came out of the COVID-19 quarantine and heaped heavy praise onto showrunner Erica Messer.
“Erica Messer is a genius. She came up with this idea in the middle of quarantine because that’s how our brains work. What did the serial killers do during quarantine, when they were locked down? How did they get through the day? I think it’s such a compelling storyline,” she said. According to Messer, the leader of the fictional serial killer network, Elias Voit (Zach Gilford), was based on a real serial killer named Israel Keyes whose official body count is not known.
“I don’t think they ever found out how many people he killed. But one of the things he did was bury ‘kill kits’ all over the U.S. He would fly into town, drive for hundreds of miles, and then dig up a kill kit and kill some unsuspecting person or people,” Messer told Cheat Sheet in an interview. Keyes was arrested in 2012 during an investigation into a young woman’s disappearance, according to CBS News.
Pulling inspiration from real life isn’t always so dark for “Criminal Minds” though. Cook told Collider the personal lives of characters often mirror those of the actors playing them, including giving Jareau two kids just like Cook when the cameras stop rolling.
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