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Michelle Fader and Michael Feehan are the supporting antagonists of the Criminal Minds episode "Gabby". Fader and Feehan are two child abuse offenders and child traffickers who were contacted by Sue Walsh to illegally broker Walsh's niece Gabby as revenge against Gabby's family.

Fader was portrayed by Trisha Rae Stahl, while Feehan was portrayed by an uncredited retired FBI Agent Jim Clemente, who is also a recurring crew member and extra on the franchise.

Biography[]

Fader and Feehan both had records of child abuse and neglect. Feehan's record was the longer of the two and involved child sexual abuse, while Faber killed a child in her custody, resulting in her birth children being removed by Social Services. Neither of them were convicted, so they joined a network of child traffickers in illegal adoption networks, brokering children their network argued were coming from worse homes and slipping through the cracks of foster systems nationwide to get away with it. Gabby Hoffer was the network's latest target, abducted by Nicole Jones at Walsh's arrangement while disguising Gabby's brokerage as a kidnapping. When the plan was revealed and Walsh was identified as he mastermind, Jones was tracked and arrested, but she already passed Gabby to Fader and Feehan. They, Gabby, and some other children were on the road and going into hiding, but they didn't get far enough to evade an FBI raid. Feehan was woken up for arrest, and Fader protested she was "helping" kids while she was taken away. Both of them were incarcerated for their crimes.

Trivia[]

• Clemente has long been involved in technical consultation for the franchise, being promote in his position from extra to writer to full-time producer.
  • The case in the episode is reported to be inspired by Clemente's final case in his job in law enforcement.