Interrogations & Confessions 19 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
What happens in the interrogation room, from hard-won confessions to ones that later fall apart.
- Season 1 · Episode 16
The Third Guy
Two teenage burglars are charged after an elderly widow dies following a rape, and a plea deal steers SVU to a delivery man whose mental capacity becomes the center of the case.
- Season 2 · Episode 20
Pique
The rape and murder of a software company’s personnel chief lead to a security guard who idolized her, a string of hatpin attacks, and a confession that exposes his mother’s abuse.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
Redemption
A rapist-killer’s signature matches a strangler jailed in the 1980s, and the detective who caught him is sent to help, until it emerges that the old confession was false.
- Season 3 · Episode 7
Sacrifice
A young husband is shot and raped in an alley outside a gay bar, and his silence hides a family supporting a sick child through work in pornography.
- Season 6 · Episode 17
Rage
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.
- Season 8 · Episode 20
Annihilated
A murdered bride-to-be’s fiancé turns out to be a married father posing as a spy, and the case ends in a family massacre.
- Season 9 · Episode 8
Fight
The murder of a teenage girl leads from a cage fighter to two brothers raised in foster care, and Lake refuses to accept the confession that closes the case.
- Season 11 · Episode 2
Sugar
The murder of a young woman found in a suitcase draws SVU into the world of paid “sugar” dating and the family of the website’s owner.
- Season 12 · Episode 5
Wet
A public relations executive for a soda company is poisoned with wild mushrooms, and a water-rights activist eagerly claims the blame.
- Season 13 · Episode 5
Missing Pieces
A Buffalo couple report their baby stolen with their car on Halloween, and SVU works to learn what really happened to him on the drive to New York.
- Season 13 · Episode 17
Justice Denied
When a Fleet Week rape copies a 2004 case, Benson must face the possibility that the confession she obtained sent an innocent man to prison.
- Season 14 · Episode 14
Secrets Exhumed
A cold-case DNA hit on a paralyzed serial killer seems to close five 1980s murders, until he refuses to confess to one and the evidence points to the FBI agent who profiled him.
- Season 17 · Episode 9
Depravity Standard
When Lewis Hodda recants his confession, Barba tries him for a 1999 child murder and Benson’s interrogation tactics go on trial with him.
- Season 21 · Episode 6
Murdered at a Bad Address
DNA from the rape of a teenage girl in a housing project matches a 16-year-old double murder, suggesting the man imprisoned for killing his mother and sister is innocent.
- Season 22 · Episode 2
Ballad of Dwight and Irena
When an abusive boyfriend is electrocuted in his bathtub, his girlfriend’s bullied 14-year-old son confesses, but the squad suspects he is covering for his mother.
- Season 24 · Episode 10
Jumped In
After surviving a gang attack, Benson takes her squad to the Bronx and reopens a closed serial rape case against deaf schoolgirls.
- Season 24 · Episode 15
King of the Moon
A neurologist with dementia confesses to raping and killing his wife of 40 years, but Carisi and Benson set out to prove he did not do it.
- Season 25 · Episode 12
Marauder
Benson quietly reopens the decades-old disappearance of Agent Sykes’s sister and connects it to other missing girls across the Northeast.
- Season 26 · Episode 10
Master Key
The search for a missing 16-year-old from a group home leads to a dead locksmith, a string of lies and the caseworker who was supposed to protect him.