Travis James

Travis James is a delusional serial killer, he also is the main antagonist of the episode There's No Place Like Home, of Criminal Minds in the season seven. He is portrayed by Alex Weed.

Background
Travis grew up in a trailer park in Enid, Oklahoma, with his mother Jan, and his older brother Tucker, the same trailer park that housed a pedophile named Roscoe Gulch, who molested several boys and including Travis. Tucker did his best to protect Travis from Roscoe, and along with several victims of Gulch, Travis would testify against Gulch. However after the tornado, Gulch and Tucker fought and both were killed by the tornado. Tucker's body was found in pieces that was so damaged by the storm that it was only identified by DNA, as his mother also died in tornado. Travis then thereafter was sent to an orphanage, and began with thefts in 2001, and Travis built a long criminal record throughout his years that included vandalism, drug possession, driving under the influence and prostitution. In the year 2003, Travis fled his orphanage and started living in an old trailer. In 2010, Travis stole a left leg from the body of a 47-year-old man who had died of leukemia and was buried in a funeral home in Tulsa. He then tore up the cemetery in which Tucker was buried. And that was his stressor, because Travis soon started killing Tucker-like boys in certain tornadoes, and was trying to rebuild Tucker. believing that the same thing that killed him could bring him back, (Reid even compared it to Frankenstein), he took advantage of the tornadoes to over up their crimes. He killed Jason Meredith, and on October 29 of the year 2011, he killed Eric Genelle. He would after that take Jason's right leg, and Eric 's arms, and his murders would soon draw attention from BAU who would begin investingating his murders.

There's No Place Like Home
At the beginning of the epidode, he attracts a boy named Gary Dyson, he dwarfed him with dextrometophan beer, while Travis was talking Gary in his trailer, Travis then beheaded Gary and broke it, catching his torso. He then went to a gas station and saw Shaun Rutledge and his brother Billy, who remembered him and Tucker. He approached and offered to give him a lift, but Shaun refused and went with Billy. However, shortly after Travis follows his trailers, this time to ask for instructions, he then drops Shaun does not fit most victimology, BAU can later identify Travis as a suspect, and when the BAU is learning that Travis is putting himself in places where he has become tornadoes. JJ, Reid and Morgan found Travis's trailer, Travis was close to killing Shaun, but BAU members manage to convince Shaun to be released, and when he does, he soon commits suicide through one of the tornadoes.

Trivia

 * Travis's serial murders bear a strong resemblance to the creation of Frankenstein, the famous monster of movie horror tale.