Felony Murder 8 Law & Order episodes
Deaths during other crimes, charged as murder even without an intent to kill.
- Season 5 · Episode 6
Competence
Lt. Van Buren kills an unarmed, mentally disabled 14-year-old during an attempted ATM robbery, and the question of who had a gun follows the case into court.
- Season 6 · Episode 14
Custody
The killing of a corrupt social worker leads to a birth mother who took her son from his white adoptive family, and former ADA Paul Robinette defends her by putting the system on trial.
- Season 7 · Episode 23
Terminal
A gunman fires on guests leaving a charity cruise, and the governor takes the case away from DA Adam Schiff when he will not pursue a capital charge.
- Season 9 · Episode 6
Scrambled
An embryologist dies when she walks in on a break-in at a fertility clinic, and the trail leads to a wealthy woman who wanted her late ex-husband’s frozen embryos gone before his young widow could carry them.
- Season 12 · Episode 8
The Fire This Time
A fire in a new apartment building put up over a community garden kills a schoolteacher, and the case leads to three young eco-radicals and the activist whose website seems to steer them to targets.
- Season 17 · Episode 8
Release
The bludgeoning of a wealthy heir on a racy party-video bus leads to a college student who says she was fending off a second assault, and McCoy charges the man who first raped her with felony murder.
- Season 19 · Episode 7
Zero
A woman whose family has given up electricity, cars and paper goods is killed with a shovel in a community garden, and the family car she quietly lent out ties her death to a police shooting in New Jersey.
- Season 19 · Episode 12
Illegitimate
After a debt-ridden police sergeant dies in a hostage standoff, a body hidden in his spare apartment leads to a failed memorabilia theft and a businessman convinced that he is John F. Kennedy’s secret son.