Witness Tampering 26 Law & Order episodes
Witnesses threatened, bribed or killed to keep them off the stand.
- Season 3 · Episode 8
Prince of Darkness
A cartel assassin guns down a couple in a crowded restaurant, and the hunt for the murder weapon costs Cerreta dearly.
- Season 4 · Episode 3
Discord
A college junior says a heavy-metal star raped her in his hotel suite, but her credibility unravels on the stand and strains Stone’s trust in his new partner.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
American Dream
Remains found on Roosevelt Island contradict the testimony that sent a Wall Street swindler to prison for murder years earlier, and he uses the discovery to win a new trial, representing himself against Stone.
- Season 4 · Episode 22
Old Friends
A baby food executive’s death on a busy street is revealed as a mob hit, and Stone’s case depends on a terrified witness.
- Season 7 · Episode 20
We Like Mike
A bellhop who helped a young Wall Street worker change a flat tire minutes before the man was shot goes from murder suspect to the prosecution’s only eyewitness.
- Season 8 · Episode 15
Faccia a Faccia
A Mafia hit man turned federal witness is found shot in Central Park, and the prosecution of the aging boss blamed for it is threatened by a dementia claim and a confession that does not hold up.
- Season 9 · Episode 20
Empire
A powerful bond analyst dies after a massive Viagra dose, and a charity fundraiser with her own angle helps the DA’s office go after the developer behind a new stadium.
- Season 9 · Episode 23
Refuge, Part 1
A traffic stop ends with a dead gunman and a mutilated body in the trunk, and the case leads through a traumatized 10-year-old witness to the Russian mob and a Moscow bank.
- Season 9 · Episode 24
Refuge, Part 2
After a prosecutor and a child witness’s mother are murdered, McCoy follows the Russian mob’s money to a New York banker shipping planeloads of U.S. cash to Moscow.
- Season 10 · Episode 14
Entitled
In the second half of a crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a mob hit man reveals that a killing pinned on a serial gunman was staged to protect a powerful family’s daughter.
- Season 11 · Episode 18
White Lie
The execution-style killing of a cocaine dealer and his wife leads detectives to an Army officer’s wife who has been carrying drugs from Colombia on military flights.
- Season 13 · Episode 13
Absentia
When the wounded eyewitness to a jewelry store killing skips the trial, the detectives learn he is a fugitive celebrity convicted in absentia of murdering his girlfriend two decades earlier.
- Season 14 · Episode 16
Can I Get a Witness?
A 19-year-old is gunned down in a park by a cyclist with a clouded eye, and the case against the accused collapses when one eyewitness backs out and the other is killed before cross-examination, sending McCoy after the cousin suspected of silencing them.
- Season 15 · Episode 3
The Brotherhood
A member of a white prison gang is executed on the night of his release from Sing Sing, and the corrections officer charged with killing him argues that he had to strike first to protect his family.
- Season 15 · Episode 8
Cry Wolf
A radio shock jock who once staged attacks on himself for publicity is shot for real, and the hit traces back to a mob boss whose mistress he was secretly seeing.
- Season 15 · Episode 12
Mammon
A wealthy venture capitalist is beaten to death in his renovated townhouse, and suspicion falls on his young wife and the contractor who installed the alarm system and shared her bed.
- Season 15 · Episode 13
Ain't No Love
When a pioneering DJ is shot dead in his studio, his young protégé’s lyrics about a real killing make him the prime suspect, while Southerlyn’s doubts about the case put her at odds with McCoy and Branch.
- Season 16 · Episode 3
Ghosts
A gunman’s dying words reopen the ten-year-old murder of a 12-year-old model, a case Fontana always pinned on her father, and McCoy defies Branch’s caution to try the new suspect.
- Season 16 · Episode 8
New York Minute
The shooting of a trucking-company owner uncovers migrants who died in his trailer and pulls in a citizen border-patrol group with secrets of its own.
- Season 16 · Episode 9
Criminal Law
A gunman working through the witness list from a nine-year-old office massacre puts McCoy in danger just as the convicted killer wins a new trial.
- Season 16 · Episode 10
Acid
When an old friend’s daughter, disfigured in a chemical attack, takes her own life, Van Buren drives the hunt for the attacker and then shades her testimony to keep him in jail.
- Season 19 · Episode 2
Challenged
The killing of an engineer in a park known for drug dealing leads to a group home, a hidden witness with an intellectual disability, and a family that gave that witness up as a toddler 44 years earlier.
- Season 19 · Episode 10
Pledge
A 12-year-old and his family’s housekeeper are killed in the boy’s home, and a magazine fact-checker’s fixation on the boy’s mother turns out to stem from a college sorority party three decades earlier.
- Season 20 · Episode 7
Boy Gone Astray
An interior designer who secretly supplies marijuana is gunned down at her door, the shooters turn out to be young teenagers trained as killers by a Mexican cartel, and their lawyer is a former Manhattan prosecutor.
- Season 20 · Episode 9
For the Defense
The murder of a prosecution witness outside her Manhattan hotel exposes a mobbed-up car exporter and his lawyer, former ADA Marcus Woll, and Rubirosa must confront her own past with Woll to bring him to trial.
- Season 20 · Episode 14
Boy on Fire
The burning death of a charter-school student leads to boys from a struggling public high school whose principal, guarding her own record of grade tampering, vouches for their alibi.