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Phillip Hensen is the overarching antagonist of the Criminal Minds episode “The Crossing”. Phillip was the abusive husband of Audrey Hensen, who later killed him when she could no longer tolerate his mistreatment.
Biography[]
Phillip Hensen and Audrey Sawyer married in 1987 in Boston, having two children, Sarah and Nathan. Phillip degraded, manipulated, and terrorized Audrey every day of their marriage, which their children themselves would become acclimated to when they grew to be spoiled and co-dependent on Phillip. All three of them constantly railed her over the most ridiculous of slights and blamed her solely and unfairly every time every time, including not positioning their clothes equidistantly in their closets every time, getting the wrong types and serving sizes of groceries, and all around being considered too unimportant to partake in her children’s public lives. Philip forced Audrey to complete be isolated from the world, to the point of her only have records of a birth certificate and a marriage license. They slept in separate beds so Phillip would avoid bonding with her, and he kept a shotgun in the house as a part of his fear campaign against Audrey. The traumatic bonding Audrey was warped to be imprinted with went beyond battered women syndrome, but a fully fledged Stockholm syndrome, where beings possessed by her family, she was conditioned to assume her family was always in the right.
In 2008, Audrey was putting Phillip’s clothes away, measuring their separation with a ruler. When she saw Phillip sleeping on his bed, she finally snapped from seeing a chance for an out. She grabbed his shotgun and blew him away, killing him. Still paranoid from her family’s demands, she went as far as cleaning the crime scene of his blood and carnage, as she was afraid he would be reviled by her leaving the house messy for visitors. Sarah found Audrey sitting next to Phillip and called the police. She was charged with murder, and her attorney swiftly jumped to the battered woman’s defense for her. The prosecutor, D.A. Eve Alexander, was confident she could get her convicted, but she wanted Agents David Rossi and Aaron Hotchner to evaluate her for a second opinion. Sarah and Nathan were questioned first, and the agents saw instantly they were as vicious to Audrey as Phillip and were warped to depend on their father for affirmation. The crime scene showed the restrictions off Audrey’s life and that she poorly cleaned the scene up. Audrey herself repeated the same degredations her family harassed her with every day of her married life, and the agents went to D.A. Alexander to confirm she was absolutely abused. To confirm it, they asked her about the night she shot Phillip, and Audrey detailed how she saw an opportunity, but she still thought she wanted to be a compliment wife. Alexander acquiesces, accepting Audrey is horrifically traumatized, and for the trial, she will plead her to criminally negligent homicide and release her on parole, arguing her prison penalty is already covered from her time served in custody.
Trivia[]
- Phillip is inspired by multiple real-life murdered abusive husbands:
- Matthew Winkler, the emotionally and psychologically abusive, murdered husband of Mary Wiknler, who killed him with a shotgun.
- Dr. Frank Polk, the murdered husband of Susan Polk, a former teenage patient who was repeatedly raped and brainwashed by Dr. Polk into marrying her and having kids, who were divided over whether to support Susan or Dr. Polk after Susan stabbed Dr. Polk to death.
- Mike Stewart, the murdered husband of Peggy Stewart, who shot her husband dead as he slept in 1998 to stop years of domestic violence in their marriage.
- Scott Shanahan, the murdered husband of Dixie Shanahan Duty, who shot her husband with a shotgun while he slept in his bed in 2004 to stop years of domestic violence.