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Serial Killers 9 Law & Order episodes

Detectives connect a string of killings to a single offender.

  1. Season 2 · Episode 16

    Vengeance

    Aired February 18, 1992 · Serial murder

    A young woman’s strangled body turns up on top of an elevator car, and the method matches two earlier unsolved killings.

  2. Season 4 · Episode 4

    Profile

    Aired October 13, 1993 · Serial murder

    A gunman with a sawed-off shotgun kills dark-skinned residents of the Upper West Side, and the white supremacist charged with the murders hires a prominent Black defense lawyer.

  3. Season 6 · Episode 12

    Trophy

    Aired January 31, 1996 · Serial murder / criminal facilitation

    Two new murders of Black boys lead to a confession that exposes a wrongful conviction McCoy won five years earlier, and Kincaid ends up prosecuting the colleague who hid the evidence.

  4. Season 8 · Episode 13

    Castoff

    Aired January 28, 1998 · Serial murder / torture killings

    A beloved Harlem social worker is shot dead outside her community center, and her secret life in the S&M scene leads to a former kept man killing wealthy past partners across the country.

  5. Season 8 · Episode 20

    Burden

    Aired April 24, 1998 · Murder (poisoning)

    The death of a 12-year-old quadriplegic boy puts his strained family under suspicion until the trail leads to his doctor, who defends the killing as an act of mercy.

  6. Season 9 · Episode 5

    Agony

    Aired November 4, 1998 · Attempted murder / murder of a mail carrier / serial murder

    The torture of a recently separated woman leads to a traveling serial killer who trades six bodies for a plea deal, before new evidence shows he may not be the man who attacked her.

  7. Season 10 · Episode 15

    Fools for Love

    Aired February 23, 2000 · Rape and murder

    The bodies of two teenage girls lead to a serial rapist and his girlfriend, the older sister of one victim, and a plea deal with her comes back to haunt McCoy.

  8. Season 14 · Episode 1

    Bodies

    Aired September 24, 2003 · Serial murder / aiding and abetting

    A teenager’s murder leads to a cab driver who boasts of many more victims, and when his Legal Aid lawyer refuses to reveal where the bodies are, McCoy puts the lawyer on trial.

  9. Season 19 · Episode 21

    Skate or Die

    Aired May 20, 2009 · Triple murder (copycat killing)

    A triple murder at a homeless camp mimics a serial killer’s signature, and the case against the real culprits depends on a schizophrenic street skater who turns out to be the serial killer himself.

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