Mrs. Atkins

"We've been through a lot, honey, but we finally got rid of them all."

Mrs. Atkins (first name never revealed) is a delusional, misandric serial killer, "Wound Collector", "House Cleaner", and incriminator who appeared in Infidelity in Profiler.

Background
Little is known about Atkins, her name no exception. She was the wife of Roy Atkins, an aggressive auto repair specialist having cheated on her with a promiscuous woman named Lee Armstrong. Mrs. Atkins found out and went over to Armstrong's place to kill her, but then she saw through her various trysts and realized she was a victim of various abuses which led her to her troubles, turning Atkins' grudge into pity and sympathy. She suddenly became dedicated to Armstrong, hoping to save her from the cheating husbands, even taking with her personally about her hopes for leaving town and helping other women among other things, like implying Atkins maybe also had romantic feelings for her mixed with her projected maternal instincts, which Armstrong couldn't stop being afraid of given Atkins' violent tendencies and not knowing even a social relationship with another woman. With a fear for Armstrong's innocence and safety, as well as a resentment over how she couldn't stand up for herself an to "teach a lesson", she set out to kill Armstrong's suitors, shooting them in their genitals, with the intention of framing Roy for the crimes with his pickup truck, the gun she used, even leaving evidence behind at the scene. She killed two men by the start of the episode.

Infidelity
The VCTF is called in when Herbert McGilver is the third suitor to be murdered. She soon after targets Andrew Gilka, who puts up a fight trying to crawl away but still dies. Atkins appears several times throughout the investigation, being thrown aside by Roy while he challenges and scuffles with the agents and smugly watching each time he gets arrested. Armstrong takes the blame for her murders out of fear of Mrs. Atkins and being unable to stomach her promiscuity, but she's soon cleared and released when Atkins shoots a suitor the agents met earlier. Roy, being released without much evidence, was soon arrested from a bracelet he wore being found on the scene Mrs. Atkins had dropped deliberately. Armstrong starts packing a suitcase at her apartment when Atkins appears asking where she's going. Armstrong denies the suitcase right in front of them, but Atkins says Roy's been arrested, which Armstrong sees as an accusation, just before Atkins pulls out a tumbler and wine to celebrate, saying they've been through a lot but they got rid of all the men in their lives. Atkins is later seen meeting Armstrong in a car in an alley while having a smoke. Armstrong arrives and shocks Atkins with saying she's skipping town without her. Atkins locks her in the car and asks why. Armstrong finds her terrifying for stalking her and committing the crimes she did, demanding answers for that. Atkins then goes into how she followed her after finding out about her, then felt bad and wanted to help her. Armstrong tries to leave and Atkins cries why she keeps finding her scary, the struggle revealing Armstrong's wearing a wire. Atkins loses it and tries to choke her, switching between screams of "you bitch" and "how could you do this to me" even while she's being arrested by the FBI and local police. Armstrong later visits her in prison, saying she came because Atkins asked her to, Atkins saying she worried they'd never meet again. Atkins continues to try to appeal to her, saying she doesn't deserve being so abused and Atkins killed for her, getting more passionate when adding she shouldn't be so weak, then going back to her first statement to keep her from leaving. Armstrong says she never asked for Atkins to make plans with her and save her and that shed come back, but Atkins doesn't believe her and hits the glass window of the meeting area of the prison, screaming Armstrong's name for her to come back and stay.

Modus Operandi
Atkins targeted men Lee Armstrong picked up for sex. She sabotaged their cars after such a night to break down on the road and followed them all the way to that point. She would then ambush them, pretending to be a driver offering help as seen from a distance when she gets out of the car, the ambush done by shooting them multiple times in the genitals with a small, snub-nose revolver, likely emptying the whole gun at times. Another signature she has is shooting one bullet at the car of each of the men she murdered. All the while, she intended to incriminate her husband, Roy Atkins, for the murders, even leaving his bracelet behind at the final murder. She then left the revolver in his pickup as a frame job. When she tried to kill Lee in a fit of rage, she jumped her and tried to choke her to death. She also admitted to driving over to where she was to kill her instead of the men she had sex with the moment she found out about her husband's infidelity.

Known Victims

 * Unidentified victim
 * Unidentified victim
 * Herbert McGiver (shot four times)
 * Andrew Gilka (also shot in the back)
 * Unidentified victim (shot six times)
 * Lee Armstrong (attempted; assaulted, then tried to strangle; attempted to kill before, but changed her mind and stalked her instead)

Trivia

 * Atkins' murder spree appears to be inspired by the novel Deep Water, by Patricia Highsmith. The novel follows a husband killing numerous men having sex with his wife in their open marriage out of jealousy.