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Child Murders 9 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Investigations into the killing of a child, from the first search to the long fight for justice.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 7

    Uncivilized

    Aired November 15, 1999 · Child murder

    When an eight-year-old boy is found murdered, a paroled child molester living nearby becomes the obvious suspect and a test case for locking up sex offenders indefinitely.

  2. Season 6 · Episode 17

    Rage

    Aired March 1, 2005 · Murder

    Stabler has one day of interrogation to break the man he could not convict of a child’s murder 14 years earlier, after another girl is killed the same way.

  3. Season 7 · Episode 7

    Name

    Aired November 8, 2005 · Murder

    A child’s remains found under a new playground reopen the 1978 disappearance of four boys and lead a CSU technician back to the unsolved case that consumed her father.

  4. Season 7 · Episode 18

    Venom

    Aired March 28, 2006 · Murder

    Fin’s son is caught digging for a body on what he says was a stranger’s boast, and the DNA that clears him exposes a family secret and a killer close to home.

  5. Season 13 · Episode 9

    Lost Traveler

    Aired November 30, 2011 · Child murder

    When a Romani schoolboy disappears, prejudice inside and outside his community points the investigation at a disabled neighbor while the real killers hide in plain sight.

  6. Season 17 · Episode 8

    Melancholy Pursuit

    Aired November 11, 2015 · Sexual assault and murder

    When a 15-year-old girl vanishes after swim practice and is found dead, a partial DNA match leads SVU through the secret children of a dead man.

  7. Season 17 · Episode 9

    Depravity Standard

    Aired November 18, 2015 · Child murder

    When Lewis Hodda recants his confession, Barba tries him for a 1999 child murder and Benson’s interrogation tactics go on trial with him.

  8. Season 19 · Episode 5

    Complicated

    Aired October 25, 2017 · Impersonation and a child’s death

    A young woman found in Central Park is taken for a girl kidnapped ten years earlier, and the detectives come to doubt both her story and the missing girl’s family.

  9. Season 20 · Episode 7

    Caretaker

    Aired November 1, 2018 · Murder of a husband and two children

    A father and his two children are stabbed in their beds, and suspicion moves from the family’s devoted nanny to the children’s mother.

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