Who is the killer in Criminal Minds season 7 episode 19?

"Heathridge Manor" is the nineteenth episode of Season Seven and the 157th overall of Criminal Minds.

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Bookend Quotes
What happened at the end of Criminal Minds Season 7 Episode 19?
Who played the unsub in Criminal Minds season 7 episode 19?
Who played on Criminal Minds Season 7 Episode 19?
Who is the unsub in compromising positions?

Summary

When an Oregon woman is found dead in an asylum, the BAU realizes that the victim is part of a series of Gothic, ritualistic murders and the unsub might be a Satanist.

Guest Cast

Gary Brintz - Bartender
Ezra Buzzington - Louis Sills
Michaela Carrozzo - Abby
Georgia Dolenz - Alice Pritchard
Robert Englund - Detective Gassner
Kyle Gallner - James Heathridge
Sean T. Krishnan - Doctor Bonds
Juliet Landau - Catherine Heathridge
Madeleine Martin - Lara Heathridge
Chase Mouser - Young James Heathridge
Robert Mukes - Male Visitor
Lora Plattner - Chloe
Everette Plen - Mike
Teddy Vincent - Tiffany
Kimberly Westbrook - Sarah Gammon

Music

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" by The Platters
"This Ready Flesh" by Trust

Bookend Quotes

Emily Prentiss: "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." — Oscar Wilde
Aaron Hotchner: "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allen Poe

Trivia

The character of Catherine Heathridge seems to be based on Dena Schlosser, a woman who, while undergoing a psychotic delusion, cut off her baby daughter's arm.
The uncredited David St. Pierre did stunt work for this episode, as well as the Season Four episode "Brothers in Arms" (and also played the episode's unsub), Season Seven episode "Epilogue", and the Season Nine episodes "In The Blood" and "Blood Relations".

Criminal Minds Episodes

Season One

Extreme Aggressor • Compulsion • Won't Get Fooled Again • Plain Sight • Broken Mirror • L.D.S.K. • The Fox • Natural Born Killer • Derailed • The Popular Kids • Blood Hungry • What Fresh Hell? • Poison • Riding the Lightning • Unfinished Business • The Tribe • A Real Rain • Somebody's Watching • Machismo • Charm and Harm • Secrets and Lies • The Fisher King, Part 1

Season Two

The Fisher King, Part 2 • P911 • The Perfect Storm • Psychodrama • Aftermath • The Boogeyman • North Mammon • Empty Planet • The Last Word • Lessons Learned • Sex, Birth, Death • Profiler, Profiled • No Way Out • The Big Game • Revelations • Fear and Loathing • Distress • Jones • Ashes and Dust • Honor Among Thieves • Open Season • Legacy • No Way Out II: The Evilution of Frank

Season Three
Doubt • In Name and Blood • Scared to Death • Children of the Dark • Seven Seconds • About Face • Identity • Lucky • Penelope • True Night • Birthright • 3rd Life • Limelight • Damaged • A Higher Power • Elephant's Memory • In Heat • The Crossing • Tabula Rasa • Lo-Fi

Season Four

Mayhem • The Angel Maker • Minimal Loss • Paradise • Catching Out • The Instincts • Memoriam • Masterpiece • 52 Pickup • Brothers in Arms • Normal • Soul Mates • Bloodline • Cold Comfort • Zoe's Reprise • Pleasure Is My Business • Demonology • Omnivore • House on Fire • Conflicted • A Shade of Gray • The Big Wheel • Roadkill • Amplification • To Hell and Back, Part 1 • To Hell and Back, Part 2

Season Five

Nameless, Faceless • Haunted • Reckoner • Hopeless • Cradle to Grave • The Eyes Have It • The Performer • Outfoxed • 100 • The Slave of Duty • Retaliation • The Uncanny Valley • Risky Business • Parasite • Public Enemy • Mosley Lane • Solitary Man • The Fight • A Rite of Passage • ...A Thousand Words • Exit Wounds • The Internet Is Forever • Our Darkest Hour

Season Six

The Longest Night • J.J. • Remembrance of Things Past • Compromising Positions • Safe Haven • Devil's Night • Middle Man • Reflection of Desire • Into the Woods • What Happens at Home • 25 to Life • Corazón • The Thirteenth Step • Sense Memory • Today I Do • Coda • Valhalla • Lauren • With Friends Like These... • Hanley Waters • The Stranger • Out of the Light • Big Sea • Supply and Demand

Season Seven

It Takes a Village • Proof • Dorado Falls • Painless • From Childhood's Hour • Epilogue • There's No Place Like Home • Hope • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy • The Bittersweet Science • True Genius • Unknown Subject • Snake Eyes • Closing Time • A Thin Line • A Family Affair • I Love You, Tommy Brown • Foundation • Heathridge Manor • The Company • Divining Rod • Profiling 101 • Hit • Run

Season Eight

The Silencer • The Pact • Through the Looking Glass • God Complex • The Good Earth • The Apprenticeship • The Fallen • The Wheels on the Bus • Magnificent Light • The Lesson • Perennials • Zugzwang • Magnum Opus • All That Remains • Broken • Carbon Copy • The Gathering • Restoration • Pay It Forward • Alchemy • Nanny Dearest • #6 • Brothers Hotchner • The Replicator

Season Nine
The Inspiration • The Inspired • Final Shot • To Bear Witness • Route 66 • In The Blood • Gatekeeper • The Return • Strange Fruit • The Caller • Bully • The Black Queen • The Road Home • 200 • Mr. & Mrs. Anderson • Gabby • Persuasion • Rabid • The Edge of Winter • Blood Relations • What Happens in Mecklinburg • Fatal • Angels • Demons

Season Ten
X • Burn • A Thousand Suns • The Itch • If the Shoe Fits • Boxed In • Hashtag • The Boys of Sudworth Place • Fate • Amelia Porter • The Forever People • Anonymous • Nelson's Sparrow • Hero Worship • Scream • Lockdown • Breath Play • Rock Creek Park • Beyond Borders • A Place at the Table • Mr. Scratch • Protection • The Hunt

Season Eleven
The Job • The Witness • 'Til Death Do Us Part • Outlaw • The Night Watch • Pariahville • Target Rich • Awake • Internal Affairs • Future Perfect • Entropy • Drive • The Bond • Hostage • A Badge and a Gun • Derek • The Sandman • A Beautiful Disaster • Tribute • Inner Beauty • Devil's Backbone • The Storm

Season Twelve
The Crimson King • Sick Day • Taboo • Keeper • The Anti-Terrorism Squad • Elliott's Pond • Mirror Image • Scarecrow • Profiling 202 • Seek and Destroy • Surface Tension • A Good Husband • Spencer • Collision Course • Alpha Male • Assistance Is Futile • In the Dark • Hell's Kitchen • True North • Unforgettable • Green Light • Red Light

Season Thirteen
Wheels Up • To A Better Place • Blue Angel • Killer App • Lucky Strikes • The Bunker • Dust and Bones • Neon Terror • False Flag • Submerged • Full-Tilt Boogie • Bad Moon on the Rise • Cure • Miasma • Annihilator • Last Gasp • The Capilanos • The Dance of Love • Ex Parte • All You Can Eat • Mixed Signals • Believer

Season Fourteen
300 • Starter Home • Rule 34 • The Tall Man • Innocence • Luke • Twenty Seven • Ashley • Broken Wing • Flesh and Blood • Night Lights • Hamelin • Chameleon • Sick and Evil • Truth or Dare

Season Fifteen
Under the Skin • Awakenings • Spectator Slowing • Saturday • Date Night • Ghost • Rusty • Family Tree • Face Off • And in the End...

What happened at the end of Criminal Minds Season 7 Episode 19?

The killer is James Heathstone (Kyle Gallner), who first drowns his victims to see if they survive, and if they do, this "confirms" they are witches. He then kills them and dresses them up in costumes from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Who played the unsub in Criminal Minds season 7 episode 19?

The uncredited David St. Pierre did stunt work for this episode, as well as the Season Four episode "Brothers in Arms" (and also played the episode's unsub), Season Seven episode "Epilogue", and the Season Nine episodes "In The Blood" and "Blood Relations".

Who played on Criminal Minds Season 7 Episode 19?

Guest Star Robert Englund poses with series regulars Matthew Gray Gubler, Thomas Gibson and Joe Mantegna on the set of tonight's all new Criminal Minds 7x19, "Heathridge Manor".

Who is the unsub in compromising positions?

J.J. James Thomas was a one-time mass murderer, and serial-turned-spree killer who appeared in the Season Six episode of Criminal Minds, "Compromising Positions".