#Law and order svu season 6 epsiode 22 serial#

вЂњFools for LoveвЂќ follows the case pretty closely, though the showвЂ™s police donвЂ™t realize KarlaвЂ™s stand-in is guilty until theyвЂ™ve had her testify against her husband.Д¤2. Law and Order Season 10, Episode 15: вЂњFools for LoveвЂќДЄ less familiar case in America than in Canada, but вЂњFools for LoveвЂќ was inspired by CanadaвЂ™s so-called Barbie and Ken killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, who murdered KarlaвЂ™s sister and two other women. Not based on a single occurrence but rather a disturbing post-9/11 trend, вЂњHateвЂќ follows a spree of crimes against Muslim victims that mirrors the real-worldвЂ™s tendency of profiling against innocent Muslims.Д¤3. Law and Order: SVU Season 5, Episode 13: вЂњHateвЂќ

In вЂњThe Sixth Man,вЂќ ArtestвЂ™s stand-in goes a few steps further, as can be expected, killing the would-be drink thrower. The 2004 fight between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, now known as вЂњMalice at the Palace,вЂќ was perhaps one of the most ridiculous brawls in NBA history, culminating in the PacersвЂ™ Ron Artest entering the crowd and punching a fan who threw a drink at him. Law and Order Season 15, Episode 16: вЂњThe Sixth ManвЂќ

In the episode, the defense tries to blame the assailantвЂ™s addiction to porn on his actions, but, luckily, that doesnвЂ™t get him off the hook.Д¤5. He also videotaped most of the incidents - a real-life fact that proves that sometimes people are not only awful humans, but also just really dumb.

Luster was the heir to a cosmetics fortune who was discovered to have drugged and raped multiple women over the course of than a dozen years.

#Law and order svu season 6 epsiode 22 serial#

Normally, an SVU case involving a serial rapist would be no big deal, but вЂњSmutвЂќ is clearly pulled from the story of the Andrew Luster case. Law and Order: SVU Season 10, Episode 10: вЂњSmutвЂќ In вЂњA Losing Season,вЂќ the pieces are rearranged just a little bit, with the stand-in for CurruthвЂ™s victim found, alive but wounded, in the trunk of a car.Д¤6. After skipping bail, Curruth was eventually found by police hiding in the trunk of his own car. Law and Order Season 11, Episode 14: вЂњA Losing SeasonвЂќД«ased on one of the more ridiculous true crimes, вЂњA Losing SeasonвЂќ draws inspiration from the Rae Curruth crimes of 2001, in which the former Carolina Panthers star was found guilty of conspiracy to murder his pregnant girlfriend. This episode also contains elements of the Mary Kay Letourneau case, as the offender in the episode is a female principal who becomes pregnant with a studentвЂ™s child - just like Letourneau.Д¤7. Law and Order: SVU Season 5, Episode 25: вЂњHeadвЂќД«ased on a somewhat insane case in which a pedophile stopped having pedophillic urges once a brain tumor was removed - only to have them return when the tumor began to grow back. (In reality, this is the Raelian cult.)Д¤8. In вЂњPerfect,вЂќ the victim was found dead, at the hands of the leader of a cult that claimed to produce the first human clones. Law and Order: SVU Season 4, Episode 24: вЂњPerfectвЂќД¬ombining two big news items of the early 2000s, вЂњPerfectвЂќ focuses on a case inspired by the disappearance/return of Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted for nine months and raped several times daily. OJ Simpson: the gift that keeps on giving.Д¤9. The publisher of a crime novel that presupposed its authorвЂ™s real life guilt - a la SimpsonвЂ™s If I Did It - is murdered, drawing attention to an accused killer who had been found innocent in a prior case. OJ SimpsonвЂ™s whole life has been ripe for crime writers, but it was perhaps one of the more recent chapters in his life that made for one of the more bizarre RFTH cases. Law and Order Season 17, Episode 16: вЂњMurder BookвЂќ HereвЂ™s what we think are 50 of the best ripped-from-the-headlines L&O episodes of all time. (As an aside, nearly all of the first seasonвЂ™s 22 episodes were based on true life events, something that probably helped the show become immediately successful, but wasnвЂ™t carried through to the following seasons.) Once SVU trumped the success of the original series, many of the ripped-from-headlines stories went there. The episodes arenвЂ™t ranked necessarily on the quality of the episode of itself, but sometimes on the importance/cultural significance of the event itвЂ™s referencing. ItвЂ™s difficult to distill a large body of work into such a small number, but here, weвЂ™ve tried. So, itвЂ™s no surprise that a lot of those crimes were based on real-life events - some of them even from just a few months prior.

Since that first season, Law & Order, and all its iterations - SVU, Criminal Intent, and a few other less successful variants - have followed nearly 1,000 criminal investigations. Law & Order, the Dick Wolf-produced procedural that paved the way for so many other shows - NYPD Blue, NCIS, CSI: So Many, and so many others - has been running, in one form or the other, since 1990.