Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems.Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems.Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 2003 Robert Durst case in Galveston, Texas. Durst was an American real estate heir and convicted murderer. The eldest son of New York City real estate magnate Seymour Durst, he gained attention as a suspect in the unsolved 1982 disappearance of his first wife Kathleen McCormack (also known as Kathie Durst), the 2000 murder of his long-time friend Susan Berman, and the 2001 killing of his neighbor Morris Black. Acquitted of the latter most in 2003, Durst did not face further legal action until his participation in the documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015), led to him being charged with Berman's murder. Durst was convicted of the murder in 2021 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. He was charged with McCormack's disappearance shortly after his sentencing but died in 2022 before a trial could begin. Maledictus (2002) and Devil's Dissections (2015) are also based on the Durst case.
- GoofsThe ME isn't able to determine Roger Barry's cause of death because his head and hands are not among the body parts that are found; she can only say that he is "either a Hispanic or African-American male." After Dets. Green and Briscoe have questioned multiple people in the neighborhood and find people who remember Mr. Barry (though they don't know his name), Green laments that they're still looking for "either a Hispanic or African-American male". The detectives should have asked these people whether Barry was Hispanic or African-American.
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Jack McCoy: [cross-examining Madison] So, Mr Madison, did you call the police when your friend Roger Barry died?
Eli Madison: No.
Jack McCoy: What were the circumstances of his death?
Eli Madison: He had a heart attack.
Jack McCoy: A heart attack? Are you a doctor?
Eli Madison: [rolls eyes] No.
Jack McCoy: Did you call an ambulance?
Eli Madison: No.
Jack McCoy: Why not?
Eli Madison: I thought I might be blamed for what happened to him.
Jack McCoy: Just as you thought you might be blamed for your friend Dwayne Evans's accident?
Eli Madison: Yes.
Jack McCoy: Just as you thought you might be blamed for the disappearance of your wife Caroline?
Eli Madison: Yes.
Jack McCoy: Blamed for a disappearance, an accident, and a heart attack?
Eli Madison: [interrupting, frantic] The police, they were out to get me!
Jack McCoy: With three dead bodies, can you blame them?
Stram is a cross dressing bisexual killer and he fled New York under his birth and male name wanted for the murder of his wife. When he's found he's been living under a female alias, borrowed from a woman he came across.
Sam Waterston's problem is that there's no body or at least an intact one to connect him to three murders, one of them in New Mexico. Stram is ably defended by defense attorney Dennis Boutsikaris.
All I'll say is it is one interesting trial.
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- Nov 16, 2020