S3:E8 "Lucky"

Background: In this episode, the BAU focus their attention on a cannibalistic serial killer.

This episode starts out at the Hazelwood Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Florida where a seventeen year old boy is being released. The doctor in charge strongly suggests that the hospital should not release this patient who is sadistic and delusional.  Unfortunately, according to the law, he has to be released because he is turning 18 years of age.  The doctor worries that this patient will go back to his old ways.  The doctor is right and the kid, many years later, turns out to be a cannibalistic serial killer that the BAU has to track down.  Floyd Fallin believes strongly in Satan and his beliefs encourage him to kill.  His victims, if they are found, all have pentagrams cut into their bodies.  This is his mark.  Most of his victims, however, are not found.  This is because he kept them to eat.  The original body that gained the interest of the BAU was only a partial (missing the trunk and bottom limbs).  Upon examining, the pathologist found ten fingers in the victims stomach.  Floyd Fallin had forced his victim to eat these fingers, as a message.  All ten fingers were index fingers, which was his way of saying, "this isn't the first person I have killed." All in all, this is a sick and disturbing episode to watch.

Cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. Cannibalism is used typically as a scare tactic in times of war.  It is highly illegal and a horrifying concept to think about. It is one of the ultimate, unspeakable taboos out there today.  Floyd Fallin would be considered a spiritual and ritualistic cannibal.  He believed that the powers and spirits of the dead would be transferred to him by eating their flesh.  Eating human flesh produces a euphoric state which activates the pleasure center of the brain's of cannibals such as Floyd. Floyd Fallin also falls under the category of a criminal cannibal, which is obvious as well.  He felt powerful eating the flesh of another human being and repeated this act of killing and eating humans several times.  Floyd Fallin in unable to fit into society or function normally.  This explains his bizarre acts and beliefs.

http://www.crimecasefiles.com/blog/2011/10/the-psychology-behind-cannibalism/