Michael Lee Peterson

Michael Lee Peterson is a psychopath-narcisistic and serial killer-copycat that appears in Criminal Minds as the main antagonist in episode Tribute, in the season 11.

Biography
Michael was born on February 19, 1981, to Vincent and Lorraine Peterson, his father was arrested for armed robbery and sent to prison. He also served most of his life at the Stateville Correctional Center, which was where Michael met two serial killers named Richard Speck and John Wayne Gacy. He and his mother, Lorraine would visit Vincent every weekend, when Michael went to do the visit, he soon realized that hierarchy of the prisoners that the serial killers would be at the top in matters of respect, that while the informs and the pedophiles would be in the background. It is possible that Michael during the visits he had interacted with one of the serial killers both Speck and Wayne, for judging the conversation that Michael had with the boy, this also made Michael have a fascination for serial killers and also an extreme passion and desire to gain respect that was what his father never had.

In 2005 in March, Vincent had to be transferred from Stateville Correctional to Regan Penitentiary for his own safety by deposing his own partner in the crime, Michael began to quarrel and was expelled in four schools and his mother, Lorraine who created Michael alone died of stroke.

Somehow in 2010, Michael landed a job as a sailor on a crab fishing vessel, allowing him to very easily search for emotions because of the risks of his job. When his father, Vincent died in 2014, Michael landed a job as a sailor on a crab fishing vessel, allowing him to very easily search for emotions because of the risks of the job. When his father, Vincent died in 2014, Michael began to enjoy his work to start killing and becomes a serial killers in several countries, he soon chose to copy the modus operandis of other serial killers of the past, to search more emotions during the killing, in Russia he killed, raped and mutilated a girl named Natasha Dudechenko, in an emulation of the modus operandis of Andrey Chikatilo the The Rostov Ripper. Soon after that all, Michael was soon seen at the crime scene in Russia plus he managed to escape before they could arrest him. After that, Michael was in the month of March, in London of England, to begin the kill again, he killed prostitute in the area of Whitechapel, and also like the emulation of Jack the Ripper. Interpol soon got the acquaintance of this and of Michael' s tracking investigators, as Emily Prentiss began investigating the case together of serial murders. Emily Prentiss soon had the idea of luding Michael out with a disguised police officer and chose Inspector Louise Hullard to the position and do this to get him.

Tribute
Michael is seen in the flashback Prentiss during the secret operation, Prentiss enters the store to rescue Louise, so when she found Louise who was seriously injured, since Michael also disabled her too, Prentiss took his gun and shot him, so Michael was protected by the bullet proot vest, Michael then began to laugh at his efforts and left after this event, Louise died of injured soon after. Soon after, Michael then returned to the United States and killed again and copied other serial killer, David Berkowith also known as Son of Sam. After that Prentiss soon calls BAU to help her pick him up. Soon after in his house, Michael is later seen at his hotel cleaning his dirty clothes in the sink, he then goes into the living room and watches one of the episodes of Discovery Channel. The next day Michael sees a couple, Trent and Rhonda Klein in Queens he kills them copying Berkowitz. When he is seen by the police informing BAU about it, they then go to the crime scene to inquire about the deaths of the Kleins, who frustate Prentiss, Michael is later seen returning to this hotel packing and leaving. He then takes a bus and starts reading about a book the most infamous serial killers. He then looks at the boy and gives a bullet to the boy as a gift, the boy tries to return, but Michael tells him to be quiet and not tell his mother and he goes away.