Briscoe receives an anonymous 911 call saying that a prominent millionaire has been murdered. However, the investigation is thwarted by the wife and family attorney, who claim he died from n... Read allBriscoe receives an anonymous 911 call saying that a prominent millionaire has been murdered. However, the investigation is thwarted by the wife and family attorney, who claim he died from natural causes.Briscoe receives an anonymous 911 call saying that a prominent millionaire has been murdered. However, the investigation is thwarted by the wife and family attorney, who claim he died from natural causes.
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- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
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- Kathy Rogers
- (as Heidi Leick)
- Defense Attorney Professor Norman Rothenberg
- (as Jeffrey De Munn)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several different cases/incidents:
- The 1980-1985 Martha Sunny von Bulow murder case. On December 21, 1980, Sunny slipped into a coma. Her friends and family have never known for certain if Sunny attempted suicide, or if her husband, Claus von Bülow, had tried to kill her by injecting her with insulin. Claus was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to thirty years in prison, but the conviction was reversed in 1984. Von Bulow was granted a second trial in 1985 and was acquitted. The case was also famously portrayed in the book and the film Reversal of Fortune (1990). Both the real-life case and this episode involve insulin injections and family interference with the investigation.
- The 1889 Florence Maybrick case. Maybrick was an American woman convicted in the United Kingdom of murdering her husband, cotton merchant James Maybrick.
- The 1955 Ann Woodward case. Woodward became a prominent and controversial figure in New York high society after her marriage to banking heir William Woodward Jr. Although never convicted, she was suspected of murder after she shot and killed her husband in 1955, claiming that she had mistaken him for a burglar. The circumstances surrounding her husband's death led to Woodward becoming a cause célèbre and, later, being banished from high society. Life called the event "The Shooting of the Century". In 1975, Truman Capote published excerpts from an unfinished novel Answered Prayers, which accused Woodward of murdering her husband. Just before the stories were to be published in Esquire, she killed herself by taking cyanide.
- GoofsThe insulin usage as described would lead to weight gain, not weight loss. Studies of Insulin usage in non-diabetics shows that it can suppress the appetite, leading to weight loss but using it after eating more food (cake in one example in the show) will lead to weight gain.
- Quotes
EADA Ben Stone: I don't mind when you want to make new law, Norman, but next time I wish you'd choose a more deserving client.
Prof. Norman Rothenberg: We can't always choose them, Ben.
EADA Ben Stone: So it doesn't concern you that justice won't be done?
Prof. Norman Rothenberg: My only concern is the law. I'll leave justice to a more majestic authority.
Lagerfelt insists on no autopsy. Her stepson Malcolm Gets has other ideas and hires his own investigation.
Murder may have been done and if it was it was by a truly exotic means which I won't reveal. But the issue is was evidence obtained illegally by the PI who got well paid by the son. What about the poor defendant who can't afford the rates of a PI? It's the issue that will form the basis of an appeal.
The episode was based on the Claus Von Bulow case with the roles reversed as the husband is now the victim. We know how that one went.
The rich really can buy their own justice on some occasions.
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- Jun 11, 2018