Richard Slessman

Richard Slessman is the secundary antagonist that appeared in Criminal Minds. He also is the accomplice of serial killer, Tim Vogel, he appeared in episode Extreme Aggressor.

Extreme Aggressor
Richard lost his parents very early in a fire when he was only 13 years old. After that, he and his sister moved in with their grandmother. He then grew to become a sociopath, he soon became interested in serial killers and became a self-made fan of Jason Gideon. He suffered from insomnia and listened to heavy metal and specifically the metal music Enter Sandman, for him to fall asleep, he was eventually arrested at the Cascadia Corrections Center for a short period of time. Arriving there, he was soon protected by a guard, due to the threats of some prisoners. When Richard left the Vogel convinced him that Slessman owed him, and helped him in the murders and installed a webcam on the boat and may even have killed some of the victims.

After Heather Woodland was abducted by Vogel, Slessman soon inplantouted a virus triggered in an email for a time, sent to them and the computer hard disk left a message. After Gideon is called his medical leave for help in the case, he mounts the profile that soon leads to Slessman who is arrested. Realizing in conflict behavior and soon shown that actually has two suspect and not one. BAU still keeps pushing Slessman for him to speak him partner's name, more like he thinks he still should then he does not deliver it. BAU then manages to convince Vogel to use it and make him say where Heather was, then he was arrested after that.