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Forensic and DNA Evidence 10 Law & Order episodes

Cases decided by lab work, DNA results and scientific testimony.

  1. Season 3 · Episode 1

    Skin Deep

    Aired September 23, 1992 · Murder

    A fashion photographer is found stabbed in his loft, and his secret business pimping out models past their prime points detectives toward one of his women.

  2. Season 7 · Episode 15

    D-Girl

    Aired March 13, 1997 · Murder / dismemberment

    The murder of a Hollywood studio president, found in pieces in Manhattan, sends Briscoe and Curtis to Los Angeles to pry a blood sample from her personal trainer.

  3. Season 9 · Episode 22

    Admissions

    Aired May 19, 1999 · Murder

    A math graduate student is found strangled behind her university library, and suspicion moves from a paroled rapist to her celebrated adviser before settling on two fellow students.

  4. Season 10 · Episode 4

    Merger

    Aired October 13, 1999 · Murder / statutory rape

    A teenage heiress is found dead behind her neighbors’ townhouse as her sister’s wedding approaches, and the investigation exposes secrets in two wealthy families.

  5. Season 10 · Episode 7

    Patsy

    Aired November 24, 1999 · Assault / murder

    A woman left in a coma after an apparent rape had long accused one man of killing her sister, and the DNA case against him begins to look like a setup.

  6. Season 12 · Episode 7

    Myth of Fingerprints

    Aired November 14, 2001 · Manslaughter / forensic fraud

    The death of a drug dealer leads to a man trying to prove his brother’s innocence, and the inquiry exposes a fingerprint examiner whose testimony sent two innocent men to prison in the case that made Van Buren a lieutenant.

  7. Season 14 · Episode 17

    Hands Free

    Aired March 3, 2004 · Dismemberment / murder of a missing wife

    Body parts in East Village garbage lead to the victim’s supposedly deaf neighbor, who turns out to be Eli Madison, a wealthy heir long suspected in his wife’s disappearance, and when a jury acquits him, McCoy charges him with his wife’s murder.

  8. Season 15 · Episode 2

    The Dead Wives Club

    Aired September 22, 2004 · Murder

    A passenger who dies when a ferry slams into a Manhattan dock turns out to have been pushed overboard, and suspicion falls on the ex-wife of the firefighter who left her to marry his late best friend’s widow.

  9. Season 15 · Episode 20

    Tombstone

    Aired April 13, 2005 · Murder of a law firm associate

    A junior lawyer is killed with a deal trophy inside a powerful Manhattan firm, and the case against a newly minted partner is tangled up with a securities fraud probe and the shooting of Det. Ed Green.

  10. Season 18 · Episode 16

    Strike

    Aired May 7, 2008 · Vehicular homicide / murder

    A Legal Aid paralegal is run down on a picket line, the suspect is a man freed by DNA after nine years in prison, and the strike leaves Rubirosa defending him against her own office.

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