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 student’s child - just like Letourneau.Ĥ7. Law and Order: SVU Season 5, Episode 25: “Head”īased 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.)Ĥ8. In “Perfect,” 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: “Perfect”Ĭombining two big news items of the early 2000s, “Perfect” 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.Ĥ9. The publisher of a crime novel that presupposed its author’s real life guilt - a la Simpson’s If I Did It - is murdered, drawing attention to an accused killer who had been found innocent in a prior case. OJ Simpson’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: “Murder Book” Here’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 season’s 22 episodes were based on true life events, something that probably helped the show become immediately successful, but wasn’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 aren’t ranked necessarily on the quality of the episode of itself, but sometimes on the importance/cultural significance of the event it’s referencing.
It’s difficult to distill a large body of work into such a small number, but here, we’ve tried. So, it’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.
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