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Victor Spicer, a cab driver, is found stabbed with his genitals cut off. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the murder and find out he was a rapist, which causes Benson to almost cross over the line and do something to jeopardize the case and her job.
Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate the murder of Gretchen Quinn, who really isn't a real person at all. The investigation leads to her psychiatrist and a television reporter who both slept with her, which finally led back to when Gretchen changed her name and identity after she graduated high school. The detectives found out she had the identity change to escape her sexually abusive father. Captain Cragen relates to this well due to the fact he has some ghosts of his own that he must escape.
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the rape and beating to death of a teen model. The investigation leads to find out she was on lots of drugs, and was dumped from her photographer because she was 'too heavy'. This starts to disgust Stabler when his daughter has been refusing to eat, and thinks she might be anorexic.
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Benson and Stabler investigate the murder of a young woman, presumed a prostitute, that seems to be the next in a long line of prostitute victims. But the detectives realize that her death does not fit the pattern, but the other deaths do have a connection that no one anticipated.
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Benson and Stabler investigate the murder of a travel writer, tied up with woman undergarments that are cutting off his air supply, and the main suspect is the landlord's boyfriend, but clues then turn to the landlord and her daughter. And then learning that the daughter had a sexual relationship with the tenant, things get even stranger for the detectives of the SVU.
Benson and Stabler investigate the murder of a female student at a college and they turn their attention to the basketball team. The college intervenes because they do not want negative publicity that could stir up during the investigation that might hurt them from the upcoming basketball championship.
Detectives Benson and Stabler have the unsavory task of investigating the sensationalized murder and sexual assault of a young boy, and their prime suspect is a convicted child molester whose only obsession seems to be collecting stamps. However, even with mounting evidence, one key piece doesn't fit -- but either way, the state is still prepared to cite civil detention as a test case to imprison him again as a likely repeat offender.
When an assistant district attorney is found murdered and sexually assaulted in Central Park, Detectives Benson and Stabler narrow their probe to a realtor with a history of date-rape and a need to humiliate powerful women -- and Stabler worries that a combative Benson may be his next victim. The key to the case rests with the suspect's business partner who can validate his alibi, but in the meantime, a seething Benson hopes to best him in an intense game of one-on-one in the interrogation room.
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A female financial analyst with a fetish for sexual bondage is found hanging dead, but while Detectives Benson and Stabler debate if her death was a suicide or homicide, they discover that the victim recently tried to purchase $10 million of diamonds -- all of which leads to a Wall Street financier with a mean streak. During their hunt they cross paths with a Tennessee insurance investigator, a crooked charity organizer and other low-lifes from the sado-bondage scene.
The devastating results of a sexual assault begin to weigh heavily on the victim after Detectives Benson and Stabler's prime suspect -- who matches the assailant's description and is found to have used her credit card -- cannot be identified by the shaken woman. Benson finally gets a real break in the case six months later but finds the victim to be more defensive and less cooperative. In addition, Benson's romantic interlude with a fellow detective is revealed.
Detectives Benson and Stabler search for the killer of a young gay man whose father heads a conservative watchdog group, but when they suspect a violent ex-convict who lives in the same building, they are in for a shock. In addition, Benson resents Munch's attempts to help her find her father -- a stranger who raped her mother decades ago.
When a multimillionaire with a sordid sex life is found bound and slain, Detectives Benson and Stabler try to penetrate a suspicious ring of soulless Russian immigrants whose fatalism and enigmatic cooperation leave them going in circles. As Detectives Munch and Cassidy run down other leads, one possible culprit is Katya, a beautiful, cunning and likely illegal Russian who included the victim among her many boyfriends -- that is, until one of her male admirers issues a curiously bogus confession.
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the unusual circumstances behind the shooting murder of an admired judge with a reputation of protecting abused women and putting away sex offenders, but they soon learn that the victim took sordid advantage of the criminal justice system. Meanwhile, Cassidy has his own secret to hide, and yet has to endure Detective Munch's derisive comments about his professional ability to cope with parts of his job in the special victims unit.
The special victims unit is on the hot seat when a five-year-old sexual assault case is reopened just days before the statute of limitations ends, so Detectives Benson and Stabler scramble to interview the three distinctly different victims, but are crushed when their legal maneuver to file an arrest warrant is denied. They and other SVU detectives are even more exasperated when they learn that one of the women admits that she knows who the assailant is -- but won't tell because he now is a member of her church.
The detectives from the Special Victims Unit and the 27th Precinct probe the gunshot murder of a man believed to be a sexual aggressor but the evidence points to the trouble-prone daughter of a wealthy family whose protective and haughty female clan leader could make trouble for investigators and prosecutors alike. But when another duplicate murder occurs, the cops re-think their primary suspect while Detective Briscoe believes they might have stumbled upon new evidence about a serial killer who eluded him five years earlier.
Detectives Benson and Stabler lead the investigation into the sexual assault and possible murder of an elderly woman, and their scanty leads point to two neighborhood toughs who will only admit that they broke into the victim's apartment as thieves. When the lack of evidence forces them to grudgingly cut a deal between the two, the detectives only then learn that their most likely suspect for the rape has been right in front of them all along.
When the daughter-in-law of a prominent religious educator is found murdered in her hotel room, Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect an at-large burglar who recently has been breaking and entering several Manhattan hotel rooms. However, their attention later turns towards someone close to the pregnant victim where they learn that she was probably conducting an affair at the time of her slaying.
When a 16-year-old girl claims that she was sexually assaulted by a man, Detectives Benson and Stabler delve into the nether world of Internet porn in search of the suspect known as "The Yachtsman" but they soon discover how difficult it is to prosecute cyberspace pedophiles. However, while investigating an illicit online service, the cops seize upon an opportunity to coax a sex offender into setting up a sting operation designed to lure in more deviants.
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Detectives Benson and Stabler wonder where to start their investigation of a series of anonymous sexual attacks on helpless women who are trapped standing in crowds on subway cars at rush hour, but when one suspect finally is arrested, none of the victims can identify him. The cops try a new ploy by arranging an interview between their new police psychologist and their prime suspect. Meanwhile, a tentative Benson begins dating a crime reporter.
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Detective Munch forms an unlikely close bond with a television news reporter who was sexually assaulted by two men months earlier but it's Detectives Benson and Stabler who stumble into making the first arrest as the cops try to use their prime suspect as a link to his accomplice. However, their case is jeopardized -- and the list of assailants widens -- when a bomb blast eliminates a vital link to their prosecution and ongoing investigation.
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A sharp-eyed photo developer puts Detectives Benson and Stabler on the tail of a seemingly harmless piano instructor who molests his students -- all boys -- but their prime witness is an unstable young man who recoils when he sees the suspect's videotape of his shame from years before. Even more disturbing for the detectives are more scenes from other tapes that could compromise their case and cause more heartache.
Detectives Benson and Stabler check out a witness' report of a desperate woman's cry for help, and after a related murder, their investigation points to a controlling attorney suspected of making a female sex slave out of a newly arrived Romanian immigrant woman. Back in the squad room, the detectives of the special victims unit squirm a bit when they are assigned to be interviewed by a police psychologist who targets their insecurities and holds the key to their job security.
In a continuation of the internal investigation into the psyches of the Special Victims Unit staff, the focus turns to two detectives -- one who wants to seduce and one who wants to destroy some of the shady characters they encounter on the job. Meanwhile, Detective Stabler's home and work lives blur horrifically when his daughter Maureen witnesses a gory crime scene as she accompanies her father in discovering the burning dead body of an analyst for a major defense contractor. While ambitious new Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cabot pursues the uncooperative employers of the victim, and his missing ward, with equal fervor, Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola transfers to the Special Victims Unit from Narcotics to join in the investigation.
When the daughter of an Afghan diplomat is found brutally beaten with evidence of sexual assault, Detectives Benson and Stabler find that her family had already disowned her for attempting to assimilate into Western society. As the detectives learn of the ancient practice of "honor killing," they wonder if the politically charged family could be motivated enough to end their defiant daughter's life.
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When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn of a rape with a familiar M.O., they are convinced that Kenneth Cleary, the unconvicted rape suspect from the Harper Anderson case, is back in action. As they investigate, the detectives find that Anderson has been doing some sleuthing of her own and is more determined than ever to bring her assailant to justice, with or without the aid of the Special Victims Unit.
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As mother blames father and father blames step-father for the abuse of a seven-year-old girl, Detectives Benson and Stabler have to consider that any member of her embattled extended family -- including her step-brother, mother, and grandmother -- could be responsible for the child's comatose condition, even as they each claim to have been trying to protect her from each other. Detective Munch takes a special interest in the case, as he recalls another child betrayed by those closest to her.
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Racial tensions mount when a Hispanic seven-year-old boy shoots to death a young African-American schoolmate and while the frightened child is kept in custody as a flight risk, Detectives Benson and Stabler discover a new twist in their investigation -- the murder weapon was previously used for an unsolved slaying. However, after a suspect in the first murder is killed, the investigators finally gain a foothold in the case when they learn the truth behind the boy's suspicious sketches of a violent shooting.
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When a female psychiatric doctoral student is found raped and murdered and an unidentified man stabbed in a neighborhood market, several of her counseling patients are pursued as suspects. One patient had been stalking the murder victim, and another had her support in refusing to take medications that caused severe side effects. Detectives Benson and Stabler and Detectives Munch and Tutuola offer varying opinions regarding mandating medication as they follow all leads and discover that the stabbing victim may not be revealing everything he witnessed at the crime scene.
When Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to a domestic violence scene, they are surprised to find that the accused is a fellow police officer, whose wife is charging him with rape. But the wife's motives are questioned as her history of violence toward her husband is brought to light. Meanwhile, Detective Jefferies, still undergoing psychiatric evaluation from the Morris Commission, ponders her future with the Special Victims Unit.
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When a 17-year-old woman is raped during the gala opening of a high profile hotel, her brother and sister-in-law are eager to help the hoteliers keep the scandal hush-hush as they prepare to sue them for millions. Though a former sex offender is arrested for the crime, Detectives Benson and Stabler continue to dig into the backgrounds of the strange family and their convenient witness. Meanwhile, Benson must deal with some upsetting news about her mother.
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When a young gymnast is found dead, her world-renowned coach becomes a prime suspect as the rigorous demands he makes of his students are discovered. Detectives Benson and Stabler soon find that the girls also vie for the attention of a wealthy benefactor whose interest in the young athletes does not appear to be purely philanthropic. But it may be that the girls themselves are their own harshest enemies as they push themselves to the physical and mental limits of training and competition.
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When a college student, Kelly D'Leah, is found on campus unconscious, with evidence of sexual assault and no memory of the night before, Detectives Benson and Stabler must determine what events led to the young woman's apparent rape. Lab results indicating that, along with alcohol, the drug GHB (which reduces inhibitions and erases memory) was in her system point the investigation toward Kelly's drinking companions from the prior night--two frat boys who may have been pursuing her attention and two sorority sisters who paint Kelly to be the campus flirt. As the college administration steps in to keep the matter under their jurisdiction, the detectives find that this is not the first time they have attempted to protect their students, not from attacks, but from criminal prosecution.
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After the son of two popular singers dies by running into oncoming traffic, his mother Ricki Austin claims that her son was fleeing from a child molester. But when forensics uncovers signs of emotional and not physical trauma in the boy, Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect that the hands-off approach to parenting employed by the two touring pop stars may have taken a fatal toll on their son, and may be responsible for their daughter Ashley's escalating self-destructive behavior as well.
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When a highly respected teacher is found raped and murdered, her high school students and fellow teachers mourn the loss of a gifted educator. But when Detectives Benson and Stabler find a nude picture of the woman in one of her student's homes, they have to question just what types of knowledge she was imparting to her students. As more is learned of the victim's voracious appetite for sex, the more difficulty A.D.A. Cabot has in gaining an indictment against a man who was just one of many of the dead woman's sexual partners.
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When former sex-crimes cop-turned-community activist Sam Winfield becomes a suspect in the murders of recently paroled rapists whom he has warned neighborhoods about, Detective Stabler is torn between upholding the law and identifying with Winfield's intent to protect the innocent from known sex offenders. As more is learned about the murder victims, it is discovered that the dead men have other dangerous details in common in addition to their criminal pasts which may have provided motive for their murders--and which may have horrifying implications for someone involved in the investigation.
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When veteran police sergeant Karen Smythe is raped while responding to a crime in progress, Detective Benson is quick to come to the aid of the woman who was her mentor during her rookie days in the Special Victims Unit. Benson and Stabler find that Smythe's ex-husband's gambling debts may have been the motive for her assault, though the growing interest of the Internal Affairs Bureau casts suspicion on all of the officers connected to Smythe.
When a 7-year-old girl escapes her kidnapper and rapist, Detectives Benson and Stabler begin an ardent search for the suspect. But when another girl is abducted under similar circumstances, the details of the two kidnappings indicate that both are the work of a serial rapist-murderer who kills his victims on the third day of their captivity. So begins a race against the clock as the Special Victims Unit has just 72 hours to rescue the latest victim from certain death.
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A Brooklyn police officer holds hostage an internet reporter, who may have information regarding the whereabouts of his runaway daughter Jill. Though the officer is arrested for the siege, Detectives Benson and Stabler pledge to take over his search. As they explore the website that had posted a recent picture of Jill, they are led to an underground "rave" culture that caters to teen runaways--and exploits their youth and desperation.
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When a young man, Tommy Dowd, is beaten during a rendezvous with an older woman at a hotel, Detectives Benson and Stabler soon find that this incident is just one of a string of such beatings, some of them fatal. All of the victims are discovered to be male escorts whose employer Leslie DeSantis comes under scrutiny for sending her staff on dates with potential murderers--and may herself have reason to want some of the escorts dead.
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When a young woman, Annie Tassler, is abducted, Detective Munch finds the details of the crime to be similar to those of a series of brutal rapes and murders he unsuccessfully investigated the previous year. He and Detective Tutuola are tipped off by two witnesses to the kidnapping, and are led upstate in hopes of rescuing Annie before the Bowery Stalker adds to his list of murder victims. A.D.A. Cabot is eager to help bring the killer into custody so that she may pursue a harsh conviction.
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When the remains of a young woman are found buried in an apartment courtyard with a collar and leash, Detectives Benson and Stabler determine that the dead woman is Ava Parulis, a Romanian immigrant who was brought to the United States for an arranged marriage. They discover from Ava's estranged twin, Irina, that the dead woman had left her abusive husband, and made a habit of taking advantage of the riches of wealthy suitors. But when it becomes apparent that Ava may be impersonating Irina, the twins' relationships with the matchmaker who brought them to the United States, as well as with a Romanian diplomat, and the former abusive husband, may lead to the truth behind the identity crisis and the motive for murder.
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When the head of personnel at a software company is found raped and stabbed to death, Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect that a fired employee may have sought a violent revenge. With the aid of FBI psychiatrist George Huang, they focus on Jason Mayberry, a former security guard at the company and son of the wealthy Grace Mayberry. Jason's shy yet cunning personality and bizarre obsessions may reveal a horrifying motive for the murder.
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When a serial killer commits four brutal murders in 24 hours, Detectives Benson, Munch and Fin canvass the streets searching for signs of a madman who exclaims paranoid and twisted religious rhetoric while committing his crimes. Once suspect Daniel Varney is in custody, Benson wades through his "religious" justifications with the help of his distraught wife, who provides key information with profound implications for A.D.A. Cabot's case. Meanwhile, Stabler's efforts to coordinate the case, and Benson's deft questioning of Varney, do not go unnoticed by Captain Cragen.
When 18-year-old Meghan Ramsey is aided by her therapist in recalling childhood molestation by her father, she reports the incest to Detectives Benson and Stabler in hopes of sparing her younger sisters the same fate. Though initially her mother does not believe her, eventually the entire family turns on the accused man despite his protests and the discovery of tainted evidence. But when his punishment is exacted outside of the legal system, everyone in the fragile family becomes a suspect.
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When three unrelated people connected to cases that were handled by Detective Benson are found ritualistically murdered, all the evidence points to Benson as the true target of the violence. As she struggles with guilt over the murders, Benson continues to pursue the assailant despite warnings from the FBI that she may be in danger. The detectives interview a seemingly endless list of suspects who have reason to hold a grudge against Benson -- until they find an innocent man who may hold the key to the horrific vendetta.
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When a baby is stolen from her mother in a grocery store, Detectives Benson and Stabler soon discover that the kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg in a baby snatching and selling scheme. The detectives are led to private adoption lawyer Mark Sanford who had brokered an adoption over ten years ago of a child kidnapped from his mother who was murdered. Captain Cragen renews his pursuit of the case, opening old wounds with the parents of the murdered woman, and creating new wounds with the adoptive family and biological father of the long-ago stolen child. Cragen and A.D.A. Cabot struggle to serve the best interests of the child while seeking justice in a complex case.
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When a series of increasingly violent rapes occurs in an African-American community, Detectives Benson and Stabler are quick to suspect a known sex-offender recently released from prison. But as their leads grow cold, the case becomes personal for Detective Tutuola when the daughter of friends he grew up with becomes a fatal victim, and her distraught brother Rodney Thompson accuses the squad of putting insufficient resources into tracking the killer. As the detectives search for clues, a fifth victim is murdered and her final moments--along with Thompson's persistence--may provide the evidence needed to solve the case.
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When a prominent doctor is murdered and his wife is raped, Detectives Benson and Stabler look to the dead man's estranged and troubled son from a previous marriage and a disgruntled former patient as likely suspects. But when the same rapist attacks the dead doctor's former mistress, a complicated series of relationships and events begins to unfold, as both the wife and mistress face unexpected scrutiny.
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Detective Stabler finds himself paired with a brusque and opinionated cop, John "Hawk" Hawkins, who has become embittered with his job and personal life. The two work to capture a serial rapist/murderer whom Hawk originally nabbed years ago, but the more they learn about the new crimes he's suspected of, the more apparent it becomes that the recently released convict is not the culprit -- leading Hawk to realize that he may have convicted the wrong man.
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When an unidentified man is found shot and sexually abused in the alley outside of a gay bar, Detectives Benson and Stabler search for possible motives and suspects, tracing the victim's history back to a small town in Arkansas. However, when their investigation leads the detectives deep inside the porn industry, they realize it is not a clear-cut case of rape and attempted murder. The lead witness in the case, a recovering junkie, strikes a nerve with Fin who is forced to define his role on the squad.
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The vicious beating and rape of a young Asian woman at a burglary site leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to suspect members of two rival Asian gangs caught in the middle of a sibling dispute over the girl's loyalties. However, the discovery of a second Asian victim reveals the horrifying reality behind this case and the origin of a meticulous serial rapist--whose own father may have a similar guilty past.
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When the battered body of a murdered 5-year-old girl in foster care is discovered, Detectives Benson and Stabler must explore a complex array of family connections in their search for a motive and murderer. The child's biological mother had been frantically trying to regain custody of all her daughters from the foster mother and grandmother responsible for the child at the time of her death. As the focus of the investigation turns to the girl's socially withdrawn foster brother, Captain Cragen attempts to reach the 14-year-old with the help of some video game camaraderie.
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When a young wife is found dead after what appears to have been an auto-erotic encounter, Detectives Benson and Stabler find that the deceased and a group of her girlfriends had recently been accused of raping a male stripper. A.D.A. Cabot prosecutes the sexual assault case to prove the new standard holding women accountable for sexual attacks on men, though one of the accused is subject to further scrutiny when it is determined that her friend's apparent suicide was in fact murder.
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When a pregnant woman's unborn child is ripped from her abdomen in an horrific attack, Detectives Benson and Stabler go on a frantic search for the child, in the hopes that it could have survived. The woman's husband appears traumatized by the attack which upsets his orderly lifestyle. But when it is discovered that his wife may have been having an affair with a construction worker both men come under suspicion for an act of unconscionable jealousy and rage.
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When a 6-year-old boy with a troubled past is shot and abandoned in an emergency room by his frantic mother, Detectives Benson and Stabler attempt to track down the child's missing family in hope of finding the shooter. However, when the boy is the victim of another attack, the desperate search for the mother intensifies before she too falls prey to a dangerous man close to her shattered family.
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The discovery of a man and woman stabbed during a seemingly romantic park rendezvous leaves Detectives Benson and Stabler with the gruesome job of identifying the victims -- a difficult task as the woman's head and hands are missing. However, when further analysis of the park reveals that the crime scene was staged, the detectives focus their investigation on the female victim and her career as a Manhattan Federation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officer, which leads them to a variety of associates on both sides of the animal rights issue.
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The discovery of a raped and murdered woman near her car forces Detectives Benson and "Fin" to become partners to determine both the motive for the crime -- and why the victim was in possession of a trunk full of counterfeit narcotics. When a similar crime is committed, the second rape victim, Francesca Jesner alleges that the assailant was a police officer who used a routine traffic stop to capture her. As the detectives close in on one suspicious police officer, the case takes on an added sense of urgency when Jesner is again held captive by her tormentor.
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As serial killer Matthew Brodus awaits his imminent execution in three days, Detective Stabler races against time to determine if the convicted man also murdered and raped another victim whose assailant was never identified -- thus giving the slain woman's parents a measure of closure. But Stabler, his former partner and a sympathetic Dr. Huang have just 72 hours to prove once and for all that Brodus was also responsible for the tragedy that overcame the victim's family.
Detective Stabler learns from his wife that her friend, a nurse at a local hospital, treated a young rape victim who refused to report the crime to the authorities or her family. Though ethically bound to keep his wife's confidence and to honor the girl's wishes, Stabler enlists the aid of Det. Benson to find out the identity of the young woman and to convince her to come forward. But once they locate the young woman, 14-year-old Cynthia, they uncover a disturbing web of sexual activity among her classmates revolving around drugs and alcohol causing concern within the Stabler household about their own teen daughter.
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The brutal attack of a young cellist, Cassie Germaine in her apartment leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to investigate her orchestra conductor Robert Prescott. The relationship between the two, coupled with Prescott's penchant for amateur erotic filmmaking, causes suspicion when a scan of the victim's apartment reveals a series of hidden cameras recording her every move. But the detectives soon realize that the invasion of Germaine's home is the work of a dedicated stalker determined to spend his life watching the object of his desire.
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When ADA Cabot is faced with a reluctant witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser. But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law as she misrepresents herself to Detectives Benson and Stabler to bring them into an illegal search of the traumatized boy's home -- jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved. SVU Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly is faced with the frustrating task of bringing Cabot in line to preserve the integrity of the Special Victims Unit.
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Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the rape and murder of the stepdaughter of a judge known for his harsh sentencing of sex-offenders. But the young woman's troubled past reveals shocking relationships both with the felons who appeared in her step-father's court and within her own family, leading the detectives to suspect those closest to their victim.
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When the wife of an entrepreneur is found bludgeoned and brutally raped on her kitchen floor, Detectives Benson and Stabler believe the attack to be the work of a possible serial rapist. But as the investigation of another attack believed to have been committed by the same man begins to reveal some oddities, attention is re-focused on both sets of grief-stricken husbands and recovering wives, who may or not be who they claim to be.
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The sexual assault of a heroin addict leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to the gruesome discovery of a decomposing baby's finger in the victim's purse. As they search for both the rapist and the identity of the baby, the detectives find that their assault victim might be withholding information to protect her icy mother or her protective grandmother. The case resonates with former narcotics detective Tutuola, who tries to help the young woman get clean.
When Rebecca Tolliver reports that her daughter Katie, a 22-year-old woman with Down Syndrome, has been raped and as a result is now pregnant, Detectives Benson and Stabler face the delicate task of determining if Katie was indeed sexually assaulted--or if her over-protective mother is in denial that her daughter has chosen to consummate her relationship with her boyfriend. In the course of the investigation, the detectives make the disturbing discovery that in fact more than one man had the opportunity to abuse Katie, and that her naivete about sex may have put her at a heightened risk for such an attack. The case is further complicated when Katie and her mother disagree as to her ability to keep her child, forcing A.D.A. Cabot to take sides and take on her superior.
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When Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to the scene of a murder in a church, they find that Bobby Douglas, the young man responsible for the crime, had been receiving payoffs from the church to cover up his sexual abuse by a priest. Bobby is still in contact with one priest from his youth, Father Michael, who is accused of child molestation by Bobby as he attempts to place the blame of his crime on the church that took advantage of his innocence.
The detectives go on the trail of a recently paroled rapist responsible for the murder of a prostitute during a raid at a men's club and are called to the scene where he was shot in self defense by his own gun. However, the murder weapon was also used in another crime while he was still in prison, leading the detectives to investigate the victim through a trail of previously unsolved cases, a spending spree and another victim.
A family portrait painted by a kindergartner leads the detectives to investigate her mother for child sexual abuse of her teenage stepson. When the boy's father is found murdered, the focus of the investigation shifts to the boy and his stepmother goes to great lengths to protect him and prevent the detectives from learning the truth.
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When an elderly woman breaks into an apartment, the detectives discover she had been mistreated but have to investigate with no credible information from the victim because of Alzheimer's disease. They discover that she had been released from a nursing home to the custody of her financially scheming son who becomes the prime suspect. However, they go back to the nursing home to find a pair of suspects, including the director who details the dangers faced by both patients and staff with her own heroics precariously standing out.
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The wife of a retired attorney, a public health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a serial killer; however, the trail leads to a man who has no knowledge of the crimes but has a distant connection to the doctor and her husband.
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The detectives respond to a brutal rape only to have the victim taken into custody by federal agents on racketeering charges. The investigation leads them to a father-son duo who are in the Federal Witness Protection Program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence, so they can testify against the Russian mob.
The body of a battered young boy found in a luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus sends the detectives to his guardian who was discovered to be a pedophile only to find his corpse in bed with his genitals removed. The subsequent investigation leads them to a travel agency specializing in exotic trips for sexual predators.
When the decomposing body of sexually molested five-year-old girl is discovered, Detectives Benson and Stabler's investigation leads them to the painful reality that they are searching for a serial pedophile as they race to save the life of his latest victim. As the mother of the missing girl frantically awaits news of her daughter's whereabouts, she must reconcile the fact that her own recent bout with addiction may have played a part in her daughter's fate.
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The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure.
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Two kids blame eachother for the death and rape of a marijuna-growing drug dealer.
When a fourteen year old girl is saved from jumping in front of a train, SVU is called in to help her. She falsely accuses an ex-boyfriend of raping her, but when the search turns to her dysfunctional family, surprise discoveries are made. From an overly helpful father, mysterious children, an overaffectionate little girl, a bracelet and finally sperm from two men who never raped, SVU discovers that the family is even worse off than they thought.
When a six-year-old girl who was critically injured in an apparent robbery gone bad later dies and tests positive for a sexually transmitted disease, detectives investigate the family, the store clerk, and the son of a prominent attorney who had appeared to foil the crime. After evidence turns up that the little girl's older sister was dating the alleged sexual predator, ADA Cabot attempts to eradicate the deal that had been made with the older sister for her testimony.
Cocaine being smuggled in baby formulas leads detectives to a good cop gone bad. When they start to get closer to the truth they have to put Detective Elliot Stabler undercover.When things get really heated it ends up putting Stabler's life in danger and he ends up having to make a choice to either kill or be killed.
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In their investigation of a prisoner's death, Benson and Tutuola learn that he was assaulted before being incarcerated. They subsequently discover several killings of drug dealers in the precinct where the man was arrested, and that two cops from this precinct had a connection to every case.
When the body of a baby girl is found inside a cooler, the detectives need to investigate just who she is and how she got there. They soon learn that the little girl had a genetic disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease, and that her name is Sarah Brown, and she is the only daughter of Andrea and Daniel Brown. When Andrea admits to having killed her daughter, Alex has to put aside her own feelings of sympathy to prosecute Andrea Brown for the murder of her daughter.
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Stabler hunts for a missing 14-year old girl who may have been abducted by a foreign child pornographer. The hunt takes him around the world.
A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.
Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to a crime scene – a young woman dressed in a maid's uniform has apparently committed suicide; however, because of the degree of sex-related bruising, they believe she might have been raped and murdered.
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After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, his father blocks the efforts of the detectives to question him.
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On a field trip, a student tells his teacher about a suit-case he found. The teacher immediately contacts NYPD to call the bomb squad out. The police find a body of a little girl inside the suit-case. The case is then handed over to Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson. They discover that the girl was on the beauty pageant circuit. One of the suspects tells the detectives how he came across a way to kill the girl. A pornography maker is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via a child porn story on his company's website.
A quadruple homicide with sexual overtones is just the start of an intense rampage of killings that brings a homicide detective into the mix. As the entire squad races against time to prevent further victims, the evidence leads Tutuola to a building superintendent, his two sons and a cross to bear.
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At a party, a young woman is assaulted in the bathroom, and her assailant ends up dead. The girl leaves the ambulance before SVU can talk to her. Is this a case of self-defence, or something far more complex?
After arresting a man accused of raping several neighborhood women, Detectives Benson and Stabler attempt to obtain an indictment for their suspect with the help of a key eyewitness - his last victim. However, the suspect's decision to handle his own defense casts some doubt over the trial's outcome as he proves to be a formidable opponent for A.D.A. Cabot.
A dead girl is found outside a bar. The death, however, is ruled a suicide because the victim's boyfriend continually raped her but the victim's father snaps on the side and vows revenge against his daughter's rapist.
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A murdered 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specialises in reproductive therapy.
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A rape victim, Chloe Dutton, is brought into the hospital one night with a bar stamp on her hand, and when Benson tries to interview her, she insists that she wasn't raped after all and that she was drunk; then she refuses to accept Benson's help. A short time later, the nurse announces that the rapist snatched Chloe from the hospital. The detectives locate the bar that the stamp is from, and they find that the ID that Chloe used to sign in belongs to Jenna Sterling.
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A high-risk pregnant woman is kidnapped when approaching her due date. Confusion arises when multiple suspects are willing to admit the crime to Detectives Benson and Stabler.
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Detectives Benson and Stabler look for a link between the deaths of two high school students and an illegal marketing campaign by the major pharmaceutical company Tauscher-Leto.
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A psychiatrist is almost fatally attacked - possibly by her patient, but she refuses to reveal information due to doctor-patient confidentiality. Two patients become suspects; one a serial rapist and one a frat boy with fugue states. While the serial rapist is found with tools of his past crimes, his librarian girlfriend can't believe he is a possible suspect. The hyper-concerned sister of the college student gives clues to the emotional state of her traumatized brother. Eventually, detectives Benson and Stabler find a link between the attack, a child abuse and an unsolved homicide.
Investigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.
After finding a dead baby in a plastic bag in the sewer, the detectives find the mother, also dead, in her nearby apartment. After talking to her doctor the detectives discover that the mother had planned to give her baby up for adoption and the adoptive parents were paying her doctor's bills. During the investigation they meet Casey Novak, the new A.D.A.
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When a man kidnaps a little boy from his bed one night, it is soon revealed the man is homeless and schizophrenic. Detective Stabler, who is attacked by the man, exposes further crimes at an adult group home.
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A man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife in protest of her drinking during pregnancy. Detective Benson finds out it is not the first time she has overindulged in alcohol during pregnancy. The wife is taken to family court by her husband, who accuses her of endangering the fetus by putting it at risk of developing fetal alcohol syndrome.
A minister who used to harass a sexual re-education group's homosexual poster-boy, is suspected for his murder. However, his alibi checks out. It is revealed the victim had a thesis about the failure of sexual re-education groups, which drew the attention of an opposing professor.
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a man's mutilation in a subway station. The victim soon becomes a suspect when they learn he used to abduct women, make them his "brides," and force them to live in his dungeon. However, a woman manages to kill him before he is arrested. She claims she took the law into her own hands because when she reported the man's crimes to Detective Benson four years earlier, she didn't believe her.
Detectives Stabler and Cragen suspect an infant was beaten by a pedophile. However, they soon learn the baby suffered from shaken baby syndrome, which leads them to suspect the mother, the nannies and the mother's boyfriend.
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In Virginia, criminals named Baxter and Gamble escaped prison right after they jumped Officer Edwards. Baxter might be heading back to New York City because his ex-girlfriend Carin lives there. Baxter was arrested for raping Carin's son.
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A local fraternity pledge master is sodomized and murdered. The detectives link it to a pornographic website that features college girls at a local bar. The investigation later re-focuses on ceremonies held for prospective pledges in the fraternity, even though the members won't talk.
A man murders two Arabs (plus a third, while in custody) and claims his genes and biology enforced the hatred and violence in him. Detectives Benson and Stabler try to discover his true motive.
A young boy is killed in a way that looks ritualistic. It is learned he was one of many slave children smuggled from Nigeria.
When a pregnant teenager is murdered, it is linked to a deep family secret. That secret involved another violent murder that ruined two families.
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A kid found digging through garbage cans leads to a paranoid, overprotective mother and a murder-suicide gone wrong.
A sociopathic bully in a private high school tortures and murders her own friend. The incident leads to even more violence and death in the private school.
When a young boy dies due to a religious ritual gone away, Benson and Stabler unravel a mysterious pattern of violence, abuse and murder within one foster care family.
A rewarding non-disclosure agreement causes two parents to refuse to have their molested child questioned about a suspected pedophile. It is also revealed that in hopes of getting millions worth of settlement, another parent decides to seek out the same man and falsely accuse him of similar crimes, using clips she found in the paper.
When internal information is used to stage a prosecutor's death, Novak puts her job on the line to get a confession.
An ex-con criminology professor is among the suspects in a graduate student's rape and murder. A hasty investigation tries to find out if the professor could have been framed by his bitter rival, a disappearing alibi witness and a corrupted businessman.
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A defense lawyer challenges the assisted-suicide law in a case involving a hearing-impaired embryologist, whose website encouraged a woman to kill herself by putting a bag over her head and handcuffing herself to her bed, but failed after being found by two maids. The woman claims she was raped, and later commits suicide by medicine. Munch reveals that his father committed suicide after Munch insulted him.
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An elderly woman's strangulation leads to a case involving mass murders in a home-nursing company owned by a brother and nursed by his sister.
A child passes out and is hospitalized after having a huge amount of detergent in her stomach. Her sister reveals their mother forced the child to drink it, but a judge disqualifies the sister's testimony. Novak and Clark investigate the judge due to his prior mishandling of an earlier child abuse case, in which he falsely jailed a woman.
A boy is accused of being molested after his soccer game, but he doesn't admit to it. His pricipal, and his soccer coach are the prime suspects.
The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.
As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenage daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.
The rape of a teenage actress whose television show, Girl Under Cover, is the target of a media decency campaign leads to two trials focusing on the influence and power of entertainment media.
The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list.
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A female high school student has disappeared, but is found several days later. She claims that she was raped by several men in uniform. An old friend of Stabler's, now a newspaper reporter, is part of the media frenzy surrounding the girl. The detectives investigate the cadets whom the girl accuses of raping her, but their names are leaked to the media and one of the cadets is attacked and almost killed. Under pressure, the girl retracts her story, but Benson is still convinced that she was raped. They begin to investigate the girl's overly protective stepfather, but it is eventually revealed that he is innocent and that the girl was raped by her stepfather's boss. She said nothing because she wanted to protect her stepfather's job, which (due to his heart problems) he needs for the health insurance. The boss is acquitted at trial, but afterwards, a previous victim comes forward to tell Stabler and Benson that the boss raped her as well.
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After the death of a little boy is discovered, Benson and Stabler believe it was a former child rapist. When they find out it was the little boy next door, Dr. Morton doesn't want him prosecuted as an adult. What he does not know is the boy played him, and when he figures out, Dr. Morton kills him, and then is on trial himself for murdering his neighbor.
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Abraham Ofinian/Eugene Hoff is a con artist and pedophile using religion as a front to scam innocent victims among his followers. He has fathered an unborn child with twelve year old Melanie in order to steal her inheritance and is on the run with her from the authorities. He is also wanted in connection with the murder of a number of children from his religious flock. It is up to Detective Olivia Benson and the rest of the Special Victim's Unit to bring in Ofinian/Hoff before more tragedy happens.
When a college student claims rape and her professor claims it was consensual sex, Stabler and Benson find themselves in the middle of a "he said, she said" battle, trying to decide whether to believe the alleged victim, or the alleged perpetrator who claimed she liked it rough. Benson sides with Myra, the victim, whereas Stabler finds himself wondering if Polikoff is telling the truth about being innocent, especially after Myra falsely accuses Stabler of touching her inappropriately. After giving more thought to the situation, Benson and Stabler each wonder if the other is right. Stabler has bigger problems on his hands, though, as Myra's attorney reveals that Kathy has moved out and taken the children.
After arguing with Stabler about their personal lives, Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.
Tutuola is reunited with his son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.
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A medical exam of a nine-year-old girl who survived a car accident with her parents reveals that she was a victim of sexual abuse. Out of fear and desperation, she ends up blaming the wrong suspect, leading to a rash of false accusations against him by other girls. However the SVU finds out she was actually victimized by somebody much closer to the prime suspect.
Two twins are suspects in a crime. One of the twin is more than meets the eye.
When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off.
A rape/murder preceded by a vehicular assault against the victim is discovered to be a recreation of a violent video game called NtenCity. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.
When the body of teenager Lisa Downey is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler learn she was part of a promiscuous circle of friends, which included her best friend, Angela Agnelli. They later learn that she was an HIV-positive prostitute, and the object of an older man's obsession.
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A series of drug-related hits leads the detectives back to the notorious drug lord Cesar Velez, who tried to kill Alexandra Cabot. Alex returns from Witness Protection to assist with the case after the gun used in the murders is linked to Liam Connors, one of Cesar Velez's top agents.
Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape and murder of Dana MacNamara, but Rickett managed to get off. With the recent discovery of the body of Kerry Lynn Palmer, Stabler has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Stabler will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job.
After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, psychic Sebastian Ballentine comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic and is convinced that the hints he is dropping about the case indicate he is somehow involved.
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A 15-year-old girl named Carrie Lynn Eldridge is caught about to have sex with her 21-year-old boyfriend, Justin, by her mother Denise, who demands the police charge him with statutory rape, despite her daughter's objections. The investigation leads to Denise being found brutally murdered in her apartment, the young lovers as suspects, a children's rights lawyer who refuses to cooperate, and history of chronic alcohol abuse and violence by the deceased.
After a young woman is found raped and murdered near a nightclub, with five hundred dollars stuffed into her mouth, Benson and Stabler follow the fingerprint trail on the money to attorney Jason Whitaker, whose sole responsibility seems to be handling the trust for the Duvall family. Soon detectives are convinced that Gabriel Duvall is their rapist, but don't have quite enough evidence to put him away. A.D.A. Novak is working on both the case and a terrified former victim when she is brutally attacked in her office late at night.
After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who sold her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol, they find her dead, and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol. Stabler uses his influence as a police officer when his daughter, Kathleen, is arrested for drunk driving.
After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market.
After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realizes that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium, an anti-malarial. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Stabler has trouble with the case because of his history in the Marines.
After receiving a tip from a retired svu detective, Detective Elliot Stabler goes undercover as a pedophile to try to catch who he thinks has committed a crime. How far will Stabler go to get a confession from this man?
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Benson gets to April Troost before she commits suicide, but when she dies during the trial against the man that raped her, Benson feels somewhat responsible. But when the detectives learn that April had picked up more men than just Barclay Pallister, all of which don't remember sleeping with her, they discover that April wasn't the victim.
A disturbing 911 call from nine-year-old Maria Recinos is forwarded to Detective Olivia Benson. Recinos is calling for help from a room she claims to have been locked in for days. The detectives put a trace on the cell phone she is using, however it turns up multiple phony leads due to manipulation of the signal, which leaves detectives confused. As the case progresses, Benson eventually convinces Recinos to divulge crucial clues, including the name of her captor. Recinos will only talk to Benson, and just as she is getting closer to finding her, the cops question the case and are now concerned that it could be a prank. Benson knows this is real, when the phone goes dead, Benson realizes that she is losing time and needs to act quickly on what little information she has if she is going to save this girl's life.
When the son of Detective Stabler's former partner is suspected of attacking a classmate at school, Stabler's emotions toward the case get him suspended from the squad.
A man is found murdered execution style in the window of his workplace, and above him the word Killer is written. A stamp on his hand leads Detectives Benson and Fin to a gay circuit club, also a methamphetamine hangout. Detectives Benson and Fin scan the ID's of the guests who were at the club and during the investigation, Fin discovers his estranged son Ken Randall was also there. As the case continues, Detective Fin confronts his son and Medical Examiner Warner confirms that the victim Robin Weller had the deadly and contagious new strain of AIDS which is becoming an epidemic. When Weller's boyfriend, who also carried the deadly strain of AIDS, is also found murdered, eyes turn toward Gabriel Thurman an activist trying to stop the spread of the disease. The case goes to trial and Thompson's attorney Carolyn Maddox, tries to sway the jury that her client's actions were justified.
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a school shooting, where three children are shot. When one African-American child dies, detectives follow critical clues and are lead to believe the crime was racially motivated. As the case progresses, Detectives find evidence that the rifle used in the killings is linked to a gun store, which also serves as the headquarters for a white supremacist group: Revolution Aryan Warriers (RAW). Detectives discover that Star Morrison and the store owner's 14-year-old son Kyle both keep Nazi paraphernalia in the basement of the shop. DNA from the rifle leads detectives to the person they believe is the killer and when the case goes to court shots are fired inside the court house by group members and a major twist is revealed.
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A recovering Detective Stabler teams up with Anna Gable after the discovery of a boy's remains from 30 years after he disappeared. This sets off a search for the rest of the five boys who went missing that same year that were never found.
After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.
After sixteen-year-old Lauren Westley loses her unborn child due to a severe abdominal beating, her father's insistance that Lauren was raped leads detectives to the baby's father, but it isn't long before the detectives realise that Lauren was an active party in her own beating, and the two teens had found it necessary to take the steps they did because the abortion clinic kept putting off Lauren's request for an appointment. Novak faces a tough opponent in her own office when she and Branch disagree over the appropriate action to be taken against Wayne Mortens, the young girl's boyfriend.
Detectives Benson and Stabler aggressively pursue a child molester who kidnapped three young sisters from New Orleans after their parents were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- but their efforts to secretly locate the third child are compromised by an ambitious reporter. However, a far greater problem looms as the New York cops butt heads with federal authorities after the suspect is discovered to have deadly anthrax that could result in a full-blown epidemic.
When a bruised, bloodied and severely injured 12-year-old boy is dumped outside a hospital, Detectives Benson and Stabler are led to Charlie Monaghan, a teenager seen beating the boy a week earlier at St. Victor's school. But the suspect's alibi proves unlikely when his 8-year-old half sister's own problems at school and tormented past at the hands off the injured boy surface. Meanwhile, the girl's legal woes are exacerbated when questions concerning legal guardianship and consent - and what constitutes fit parenting - come into play.
When a woman is found shot to death in her apartment, Detectives Benson and Stabler discover 14-year-old Nathan Phelps, traumatized and hiding in the closet. The investigation leads the detectives to Ted Carthage, the head of a charity organization, and whose voice Nathan recognizes as belonging to the man who shot his mother. Without a positive I.D., Carthage is released, but later found dead, shot by Nathan. A.D.A. Novak must prosecute Nathan and attempts to give him a break when his attorney Sophie Devere finds a study that suggests people who witness gun violence are more likely to commit acts of violence themselves. But their plan to settle with a plea is disrupted when a gun manufacturer's advocacy group catches wind of the defense, fearing legal implications.
When an eight-year-old girl is kidnapped on her way home from school and DNA tests on the blood found in the abductor's abandoned van reveal she has leukemia. M.E. Warner visits the girl's family to inform them of her findings. No sooner does Warner deliver the diagnosis than she's drawn into the kidnapper's deadly game when it's clear he has the family's apartment - and its occupants - in his sights and no cops are to be involved.
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When a newborn baby boy is discovered in the trash, Detectives Benson and Stabler use a bar t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college co-ed. At the precinct, the girl collapses and is treated for a potentially lethal post-conception complication, where she then admits to Benson that she had been raped and was unaware that she had been pregnant prior to the birth. The girl soon loses sympathy when it is also discovered that the girl had been connected to another abandoned newborn a year later, but was never arrested - and that the girl is the daughter of a city councilman. At the trial, Dr. Huang's diagnosis of postpartum psychosis sets the stage for the defense - but it's soon discovered other factors are at play when the father of both abandoned babies is revealed.
When the body of a young woman is found murdered in her apartment, detectives Benson and Stabler discover she's a successful attorney - and stripper, which is apparently unknown to her fiancé and boss, Tessa McKellen. Later, tape from a student crew filming the night of the murder reveals the victim was with Linus McKellen, Tessa's husband - whose sperm was found in both the victim and her friend and fellow stripper, also found murdered. The investigation is further complicated when it's revealed the killer entered both apartments from outside windows, leading the detectives to suspect the crimes could also be tied to Tessa's corporate work.
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Doug Waverly and Nick Pratt are charged with rape and murder in the disappearance of Canadian student Jennifer Durning after Nick's cousin, Jason King, claims that while he had consensual sex with her that night the other two raped her. A stray pubic hair leads Novak to Keith Willis, a drunk who was paid off by the boys to get Jennifer out of the hotel and who later saw the boys kidnap her, but Willis isn't exactly fit to be a witness as his mind has gone after years of alcohol abuse. Jason King disappears. Although they are able to find a bug in Donnelly's office, they are not able to prove that it was placed there by Pratt or Waverly until after Judge Donnelly is forced to dismiss the case against the two boys since there is no case without Jason's testimony.
A Hudson University co-ed, Caroline Pereira, dependent on financial aid, is found murdered with an unexplained influx of cash. Caroline's wealthy roommate, Gloria Kulhane, is found with one of Caroline's rings, making her a suspect as the two were not friends. Detectives Benson, Fin and Stabler have several theories about her murderer and their motive and investigate the various suspects; the roommate, her childhood friend, and someone connected to a heavily trafficked website where Caroline was selling term papers for cash.
Detective "Fin" Tutuola is torn between his family and "the system" when his son Ken Randall is roughed up and arrested for digging in a vacant lot late at night. Detectives Stabler and Benson question Randall who claims he was drawn to the site after overhearing a stranger's murder confession while out with his troubled cousin Darius Parker. The story is weak, prompting suspicion and a deeper investigation that leads to an unsolved double homicide - and the realization Randall and Parker have more in common than Tutuola even suspected.
The detectives attempt to track down an extremely dangerous sex offender who has kidnapped two children after brutally murdering their mother, stepfather and older sister.
A band of teenage siblings attack and sodomize a teenage girl, Jessica Delay, who is a gifted piano student at a prestigious high school in Harlem. Through help from Medical Examiner Warner who identifies the attackers as overweight, Det. Stabler and his one-time partner Det. Lucius Blaine track down the siblings, who claim they attacked Jessica to avenge an attack on their morbidly obese brother Rudi. After the case goes to trial, there is a hollow victory for the "winner" due to the enormous health issues facing the teenager.
A mother is devastated by the revelation that her 8-year-old son has been sexually abused years after her ex-husband was sent to prison for molesting her older child, whose DNA now implicates him in his brother's case.
Former rock star Derek Lord goes on a national talk show and lectures about the abuse of psychiatric drugs. Meanwhile, an unstable young woman Jamie Hoskins, who loses her virginity, goes off her prescribed medication, gets behind the wheel of a car, and mows down 10 people. As these events are played out in a highly charged way, the argument about prescribed "meds" is challenged.
FBI agent Star Morrison reappears on the scene, where alleged rape victim Haley refuses a rape kit. Benson learns that Haley is an FBI informant whose ex-boyfriend is a radical environmental rights advocate. In order to foil the group's terrorist activities, Benson goes undercover to further investigate.
The detectives investigate the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl with Turner's syndrome, a genetic disorder that contributed to her being teased and bullied by students at her prep school.
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Stabler and his new partner, Dani Beck, investigate the rape of a young woman named Nikki, who soon identifies a prominent lawyer, Martin Trenway, as her rapist. The squad has difficulty making the charges stick until another victim comes forward, but her testimony cannot be proven reliable. Determined to get at Trenway, Beck tracks down a woman from his past who holds the key to convicting Trenway, if they can convince her to expose the truth.
After a mother and her ten-year-old daughter are found raped and butchered in their apartment, Stabler and Beck take in a homeless man who turns out to be Munch's uncle, Andrew. Initially he's their main suspect until they find their way to a new suspect. Unfortunately, when their only evidence against Brent Allen Banks is thrown out in court, Andrew, suffering from mental illness, goes too far trying to do what he is convinced is the right thing.
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A rape victim loses her life while confronting her attacker, who assaulted her two separate times. The case leads Stabler and Dani to discover more victims of the same rapist, whom Huang pegs as an "alpha male." Also, one of the young men who killed Dani's husband dies, and the other murderer tries to contact her from prison.
Benson's testimony is needed as ADA Novak tries to convict a brutal rapist. The trouble is that Benson, who's still in Oregon posing undercover as ecoterrorist Persephone James, has her own legal woes to deal with after a cocky deputy assaults her and she's questioned by a sheriff about a pharmaceutical employee's murder.
A 14-year-old girl who was brutally beaten, raped and killed shares the same dog-paw tattoo as two other young female homicide victims. Despite warnings from Stabler, Dani becomes overly involved in the case.
Detectives Stabler and Beck investigate a car accident involving two foster children. The accident leads the detectives to the foster parents and some questionable medical practices involving controversial "rebirthing" therapy. As the detectives dig deeper into the case, they discover other gruesome secrets involving the children, and after one of the foster children, Eden sets the drapes in Beck's living room on fire, attempting to murder Beck and commit suicide, Beck says goodbye to Stabler and Special Victims Unit.
Stabler becomes involved in a murder case that leads to revelations of infidelity and obsession among a group of friends, one of whom is the victim's husband. Also, Stabler learns that Benson is back in town and asks for her help in the investigation.
Stabler agrees to hear the dying confession of a cancer patient named Judson Tierney, but first he and Benson do some digging into what possible crime Tierney's guilty of and come up with an unsolved case that goes back 47 years. However, according to Tierney, that is merely the "tip of the iceberg."
Stabler and Benson are at odds over whom to believe in a "he said, she said" rape case involving a husband and wife in the middle of an extremely bitter child-custody dispute
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Fin looks into an alleged rape at the college where his son, Ken, works. Fin is joined in his investigation by a Brooklyn SVU detective named Chester Lake, who is working a strikingly similar case
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An anonymous letter leads to a child-pornography case, which puts stress on Olivia, who develops medical symptoms similar to those exhibited by the victim and his mother.
After a mob lawyer is attacked and his wife brutally murdered, Benson and Stabler question their daughter. But her wild night of drunken partying leaves her unable to recall her actions, even though her father insists she was at the scene of the crime. Also, Stabler is charged with excessive force.
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When a mother commits suicide after her young infant goes missing, Stabler becomes drawn to the case. Meanwhile, as Stabler and Benson work on the case, Benson begins to question her family history.
Det. Benson involvement in a case becomes more than she bargained for when she is linked to the suspect in a way Benson could have never imagined.
A successful preacher is the prime suspect in a murder case, until his wife provides detectives with a taped conversation.
When an honor student dies at a party, the blame immediately falls on the supplier of the alcohol. However, when the students who threw the party only get a warning, Stabler must use his daughter's help to navigate the complex teenage world in order to find out where the next party will take place. There, they find that one of the mothers may be the supplier who caused the negligent death of the student.
When Detective Benson gets into the middle of an investigation of her brother Simon Marsden, the case begins to threaten her career. As Simon makes a run for it, Benson investigates further into his family life, and begins to question whether or not she was the product of a rape in the first place. She digs deeper to discover that Simon was the victim of a frame-job by Capt. Julia Milfield.
A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé receives death threats, apparently resulting from his CIA career. Elliot, investigating this, finds that the man may not be all that he seems; the case takes a shocking turn when the man's original family are all found dead. Meanwhile, Elliot continues to rebuild his relationship with his family.
The team investigates the death of a partially clothed teenage boy wearing a leather mask. The detectives discover that the victim's best friend is the killer and has a video, showing that the boy's death was the result of a backyard wrestling match gone wrong. The trial ends with the boy's conviction on a lesser charge and is sentenced to probation when the key witness, the victim's girlfriend fails to show up at the sentencing hearing. When the girlfriend is injured in an attack instigated by the defendant, the case takes a bizarre turn when information surfaces that the girl is far older than she appears and has been defrauding the foster care system for over a decade.
Darius Parker goes on trial for the rape and murder of a woman and her 14-month old child. The case brings Fin under fire from the media and even has Munch and Stabler at odds. Novak prosecutes the trial that brings Stabler and Tutuola, among others, to the stand. Many previous stories are brought into the trial, such as Stabler's daughter Kathleen's DUI, and Benson's illegal money-wiring to her half-brother, Simon Marsden. It is also revealed that Kathy Stabler, Elliot's wife, is pregnant again.
The detectives investigate when a woman, Janis Donovan, suffering from multiple personality disorder may have fatally abused her daughter. As Benson and Stabler look into the case, Dr. Carlisle assists as Donovan continues to expose different personalities, which leads to a twist in the case. Now, the detectives are in a race against time to find the infant before it's too late.
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After Kristi McGarrett is raped by her sister's boyfriend, Dan Friedich, her sister, Rachel, disappears. Friedich is the detectives' top suspect and Benson and Stabler must use Rachel's "avatar" to find her before it's too late.
A 15-year-old boy, Shane Mills, contracts a sexually transmitted disease and claims he got it from his teacher, Sarah Trent, who seduced him. But when Sarah claims Shane raped her, Benson and Stabler begin an investigation that uncovers dark secrets.
Corrine Nicholson is beaten badly and ends up in a coma. The only witness to the crime is Corrine and her husband Ben's daughter, Katie. However, Katie is mentally challenged and the detectives hesitate in having her testify. Together, Benson, Stabler and Dr. Huang work with Katie to put the pieces together.
A teacher at a private school is found stabbed to death. The detectives link the murder to a victim's center where the teacher was working with an Iraqi man. Could exposed military secrets be the reason the teacher was murdered?
A college student is murdered in her formal wear, and the detectives find that the murder is a "copycat" of notorious serial killer Robert Morton. The case becomes more complex when the last person to see the girl alive, Cecilia, mysteriously disappears herself. In a race against time to find Cecilia before it's too late, the detectives must find Morton in order to solve the case.
Novak must confront a past ghost while working on a schizophrenic rapist case.
An ultimate fighter's DNA found at the scene of a teenage girl's murder may make him a prime suspect. Yet more evidence may lean towards two brothers involvement in the crime.
The case of a murdered nanny leads detectives to her online love interest, but her employers also fall under suspicion when infidelity is uncovered. Meanwhile, Stabler's unborn son is in serious danger after a family tragedy.
A polygamist's wife is murdered and the man believes that her death is related to a criminal case in which he testified. However, the detectives soon find that it may be due to his lifestyle instead.
A charismatic yet violent leader of a homeless group is suspected by the detectives of murdering a wealthy Manhattan teen. But the investigation unearths other evidence that leads them to believe he may be responsible for the deaths of his own children and first wife.
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Benson begins working with an FBI agent familiar with a serial killers profile when another body is found in Central Park as its latest victim. The agent has a special interest in the case after her mentor committed suicide when he was unable to solve the case.
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The naming of a suspect in the sexual assault case of a young Jewish boy uncovers a disturbing pattern when more victims come forward. But the boy's religious community hampers the case by keeping quiet and protective of their own and by a grandstanding defense lawyer who uses the case to further her own agenda.
A race to recover fertilized embryos before they expire has Benson and Stabler racing around after a sperm bank is robbed. The list of suspects is extensive, but all signs point to a pair of publicity seeking extremists, while Benson realizes she may be waiting to long to become a mother herself.
Ashley Tyler is found raped and badly beaten at a local garden, Benson and Stabler's first suspect is her well-known drug-dealing uncle, Rick Tyler. After the rape kit with crucial evidence identifying the rapist vanishes, detectives begin to suspect a prison guard may have a role in the investigation. Benson puts her life on the line as she goes undercover as an inmate to catch the rapist.
An investment banker's death leads to the agent of a pro football quarterback who seemed to be having an affair with the victim. Meanwhile, Benson's dating of a newspaper editor causes a conflict with her position at the department.
An engineer, Merritt Rook, proves to be a dangerous man after posing as a police officer on the telephone, tricking people into committing crimes. Rook cleverly gets himself freed from jail, throwing publicity his way and gaining followers with his anti-authority message.
An attorney hampers an attempted interview with a wealthy member of a coffee trade family, who's pregnant fiance was found in a house fire raped and beaten. As they dig further into the evidence they discover family secrets, including an affair between the victim and her would be father-in-law.
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Lake is made the prime suspect after opening a cold case and being shot at by the detective who had originally worked up the case, which left him dead and Lake in a hospital. Later, Lake flees from the hospital and takes the only witness as a hostage.
After a young boy, Christopher Ryan, is caught driving a runaway van, Detective Elliot Stabler and Detective Benson take the seven year-old into questioning. When Christopher claims his foster parents, Gwen and Noah Sibert, bribe him in exchange for abusive medical testing, the detectives investigate his allegations. As Detective Benson continues to study the boy's accusations, she is led back to a former unsolved rape case involving Kaitlyn Murphy. After reviewing both cases, Benson uncovers a common factor, and with help from new A.D.A Kim Greylek she just might be able to solve the cases.
Teenage boy Eric Byers admits himself into the squad room, and warns the team about an unnatural desire towards his younger stepbrother, Cory Kelly. Detective Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson's suspicions arise, and Eric admits to also looking at a website to try to curb his pedophilic urge. With no crime committed, the detectives decide to investigate this "self-help" website for pedophiles leading them to it's creator, Jake Berlin. Eric's rage induced stepfather is also questioned, and shortly after Eric is found missing. The detectives must race to place the clues together to find and stop Eric before any crime is committed.
Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.
The investigation of a famous dead astronaut found in Battery Park has hit a dead end, causing Stabler to ask for assistance from his old mentor, Dick Finley, a former colleague of the victim and an astronaut himself.
A baby with AIDS has Benson and Stabler asking for assistance from Warner as they investigate the case. They are pointed in the direction of a homeopathic doctor who has an questionable ethical past and who had prescribed the baby ineffective vitamins.
Stabler and Munch uncover a chastity club and a group of girls with a pregnancy pact at a high school where they came to investigate the death of a student.
Stabler gets help from hip hop artist Gots Money, a group insider, when they try to break up an animal-smuggling ring. Benson poses as a prostitute for added assistance, which leads to complications in Stabler's marriage.
Benson finds herself going as far as to hiding inside a stairway to protect a woman who is a victim of spousal abuse. While hiding, Benson uncovers another crime from the past.
Benson and Greylek try to keep a case concerning a pregnant marine who is carrying a rapists child, in SVU when the Navy wants to take it over. This brings flashbacks to Benson and her sexual assault, so she asks for help from Fin on the case.
After being found wandering around Riverside Park, beaten and raped, Kelly Sun is taken in by Benson, but she has no memory of what happened. Benson's investigation finds that Kelly was on her way to Korea, but never got on the plane; instead, she was seen leaving with a mystery man who becomes the case's number one suspect. Stabler and Benson search for evidence against the mystery man, Eric Lutz, and Benson is overcome with memories of her own attack.
When a girl who vanished four years ago reappears, she claims to have been imprisoned and sexually abused. Benson and Stabler look into the case and find themselves having to sort through what was fact and what the girl made up.
When a teenager's body is uncovered in the Hudson River, the detectives search for the victim's identity which leads Benson to go undercover as a madam.
The mother of a kidnapped young girl points the detectives towards her father, an ex-con, but it is soon discovered that the grandfather is a master thief and has many enemies. However, because of Alzheimer's, the grandfather can't remember much of his past.
The detectives have very little to work with after a man is found badly-beaten in a strip club's parking lot. Their questioning begins with the dancers until the victim's ex-wife and 13-year old transgender son become suspects.
When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.
The scene of a single murder soon turns into a scene of three deaths, sending Benson and Stabler to work with a strip club owner in order to track down the killer before more bodies pile up.
A young girl, Miriam Burdett, is found in an alley, with her throat cut and evidence of repeated rape and physical abuse. When asked to write who attacked her, because of her inability to speak, she draws a picture of the devil. When Detective Munch investigates, he finds several reports of a local priest, Father Theo Burdett, who neighbors claim is a devil worshipper.
Fina ans Stabler connect the death of a rising artist with an unsolved murder, and then find a link to another serial killer in which another detective had been hunting down and who has become territorial over his cases lately.
A grandmother reports that her 2 year old granddaughter has disappeared, but the Amber Alert fails to yield progress. The detectives then move their attention over to her young irresponsible mother as their prime suspect.
A teenage girl who sent text messages containing nude pictures of herself is found beaten up. She next faces a harsh sentence from a judge after being arrested for producing and distributing child pornography.
A judge asks an odd request for a plaintiff who is seeking a restraining order: he asks detectives to interview a convicted serial killer concerning his son's kidnapping, which took place 30 years ago.
A former artist is questioned by the detectives when a tourist's body is found murdered in Central Park. Finn and Munch try to keep a watch on him, but lose him and seek the help of Munch's ex-wife.
Officer Nate Kendall helps a woman in trouble and ends up helping solve a rape case. However, Stabler and Benson believe Kendall and his unstable personality are not right for the case. A.D.A. Sonya Paxton joins the team, bringing evidence that links the case to other rape cases.
When a woman's body is found stuffed inside a suitcase, police believe the victim, Mindy Keefe, was on her way to Tampa when she was killed. Stabler and Benson turn to Keefe's boyfriend, Owen Cassidy, who claims he was on his boat during the time of the murder. Further investigation leads the detectives to an online dating website, but when the CEO of the site is uncooperative, the detectives go to A.D.A. Sonya Paxton for help.
Detectives Benson and Stabler are pointed towards a neighbor and convicted bank robber, Callum Donovan, by the boyfriend of a woman who's gone missing. Stabler winds up in solitary confinement.
Benson and Stabler investigate when called to a scene where an alcoholic man has awakened to find a woman's body beside him. Since the man claims not to recognize the woman, the detectives find themselves retracing the night's events and the possibility of a dangerous love triangle.
Detectives discover that their prime suspect of a young boy's rape, is the leader of a civil rights group which supports adult-child relationships.
The detectives investigate after a young couple is found dead in the back of a padlocked truck. It's discovered that the male victim was connected to a Mexican drug cartel.
A picture from a crime scene of a murdered teenage girl has quickly become an Internet phenomenon, causing the police to investigate the victims father, who leads them to his daughter's therapist.
Stabler's son and best friend are missing, and ADA Cabot is being investigated by the state bar because of a rape case.
Incriminating DNA evidence points to Detective Benson as the prime suspect in the murder of a biker. Munch and Fin investigate the murder, while Stabler fights to prove his partner's innocence.
When two girls are murdered in a similar manner only months apart, Tutuola investigates. When a third girl is found murdered, Fin finds a common link: they were all "anchor babies" of immigrant families. After looking through the Center of Immigrant Services' hate mail, Fin begins to track down the killer.
When a seventeen year-old girl is found strangled and beaten, her ex-boyfriend shows them a website that the victim used to meet random men. Benson creates a fake user account and finds womanizer Peter Butler, the man who met up with the victim. Stabler and Benson soon find that HIV is being spread due to the countless attacks, which sends them on a hunt for a rapist.
When a rich and powerful couple is found murdered in their home, Benson and Stabler head out to speak with the couple's daughter, Anne, in hope of finding out more about the couple. Anne tells them about a man who has been following her, and Benson and Stabler uncover that Anne's stalker is Detective Ash Ramsey of the Special Frauds division. Ramsey, thinking Anne killed her parents for money, is lead to believe that Anne's business manager helped her steal funds from a foundation.
Benson and Stabler are forced to deal with the abrasive militant leader of a lesbian rights group as they search for a rapist and killer who may be targeting members of the lesbian community.
SVU tries to make the case against a Christian zealot who is targeting prostitutes, but it hangs on the cooperation of a pregnant prostitute who is terrified of the man and has her own demons.
An attorney confesses that she had knowledge that her client committed a 22-year-old murder that another man was serving time for, but could not come forward because of attorney-client privilege.
A potential witness in a rape case is reluctant to testify because she is an illegal immigrant who both witnessed and was the victim of unspeakable wartime crimes against women in The Congo.
The team tries to persuade a disabled woman who cannot speak confront and identify her rapist in court, while also protecting her from her angry, abusive sister.
A rape and murder helps Benson and Stabler crack a case involving a serial rapist and killer from the 1970s. However, one copycat crime remains open when investigation reveals that the crime was committed by a woman.
Benson and Stabler must determine a murder victim's actual identity when the presumed victim turns up alive.
Benson and Stabler discover that a murder victim had been involved in the fight to expose questionable practices in the meat-packing industry.
When two sisters are killed in a fire, the father is arrested after the Deputy Fire Marshal presents evidence of arson. However, the ADA on the case enlists an expert who has a different theory. Who is right?
Benson and Stabler investigate the rape of a pregnant woman, and find an illegal adoption operation.
After a flasher is recognized as a rapist, the detectives stake out Central Park where a rookie cop makes the arrest. But who is the rookie? Benson and Stabler race the clock to find him to save their case.
An eight year old boy is kidnapped, shots are fired in the precinct and ADA Marlowe reveals a part of her past.
A foster couple call Detectives Benson and Stabler to the scene of the crime when their ten-year-old adopted daughter disappears. It soon comes to light that she ran away to meet with a man named Erik Weber, whom she met on the internet and whom Benson and Stabler suspect of ulterior motives regarding the girl. Weber denies any wrongdoing, and also expresses romantic interest in Benson. However, as the investigation continues, the detectives realize that the girl's foster parents may be hiding something that could change the entire course of the case.
Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to the hospital after a 10-year-old girl is raped. They arrive to find her so traumatized that she cannot even tell them her name. With the help of Detectives Odafin Tutuola and John Munch, they are able to identify the young victim. But they soon realize that her home life is far from normal as Dr. George Huang discovers that her mother suffers from a rare condition that renders her unable to recognize that the young girl is, in fact, her daughter. When the detectives find themselves without a lead, Erik Weber, a man they met on their previous case, decides to get involved. But he may be overstepping his bounds.
A rape victim, Vicki, is brought into the hospital initially claiming she has been attacked multiple times by the same man. Detectives Benson and Stabler are determined to help her, but she lives in such terror that she then denies she has been raped at all and refuses to submit to a rape kit. As Benson looks for a way to help, she is horrified to learn that there are police precincts and evidence labs across the country that never test their rape kits at all. The investigation soon leads her to Los Angeles where she meets Detective Rex Winters, who has information that could finally help Vicki get justice.
When a 15-year-old girl is hit by a car and killed, Detectives Benson and Stabler are surprised when Dr. Melinda Warner rules it a homicide. She has found signs that the girl was being starved, and had even recently given birth. As the two look into the case with the help of Detective Odafin Tutuola and Dr. George Huang, they find that the girl had fallen victim to a human trafficking ring, and though some think it's a case for the FBI, the cops instead reach out to Assistant U.S. Attorney and friend Christine Danielson, who has moved up in the world since the detectives last saw her. Meanwhile, Captain Donald Cragen is frustrated by his crumbling precinct.
Detectives Benson and Stabler arrive on the scene where a woman is found dead in Bethesda Fountain. When her squeaky clean image doesn't match up with her promiscuous actions on the night of her murder, ADA Mikka Von encourages the cops to dig deeper into her past. When they find out that the woman was poisoned with toxic mushrooms, they suspect a crazed activist and professor is responsible. As the case develops, Benson and Stabler go to dangerous lengths to ensure that justice is served.
When detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a brutal attack on an unassuming, upstanding father, they find he's also been branded on his chest with a wire coat hanger. Before long, another victim turns up who has suffered the same injuries. Once they track down the suspect, some startling memories surface that completely change the course of the case.
After a young woman has been raped and murdered, her body turns up in an industrial laundry facility. Detectives Benson and Stabler soon find that she was involved in an environmental group called CLEAN, and it isn't long before they track down the prime suspect. However, the case soon puts them in the line of fire and exposes a much larger mystery that includes even more victims. As the investigation progresses, Detective Benson builds a connection to a victim's daughter that invokes her own past in ways she never anticipated.
FBI Agent Dana Lewis is assaulted by a stranger and asks Detective Benson to have her rape kit tested. Before the cops can really help her, Lewis goes back undercover and refuses to talk about the assignment or the rape, for fear that she will be exposed and pulled off the case. She reluctantly allows Benson and Stabler to get involved in what looks like a protest against the construction of a mosque at Ground Zero, but they find themselves scrambling to put the pieces together of a much larger puzzle than they had anticipated.
Detective Stabler goes to his daughter Kathleen's university to discuss rape prevention at a Take Back the Night rally. When a girl from the crowd accuses another student of rape, Stabler and Detective Benson are assigned the case. What emerges are conflicting accounts and fiery accusations without substantial evidence to back them up. To complicate matters further, ADA Paxton returns to prosecute the case, and Kathleen oversteps her bounds, which could land her and her father in hot water.
With young Calvin in her care, Detective Benson continues the search for his drug-addict mother, Vivian, but Detective Stabler notices a strong bond forming between Benson and the boy. When Vivian's name comes up during a rape investigation, Captain Cragen assigns Detectives Fin and Munch to the case instead. However, it will take more than Cragen' s orders to keep Benson away.
A young boy is found dead on a park carousel after being dropped off by his uncle Joe Gilbert. When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the boy was beaten to death they suspect that it could be the result of a bully at school. The investigation leads to an unsettling gambling ring. Detectives suspect that Gilbert's acquaintance, Joe Roberts is beating his wife Sandra and the case takes a horrifying turn.
A young man finds that his girlfriend Larissa Welsh has been attacked in her apartment with evidence that points to her buried past. Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of her attacker and discover that an elderly man, Orville Underwood, may have been involved in traumatic events of Welsh's past. For the detectives, solving the case comes down to who was in possession of the evidence.
Debbie Shields comes home to find her partner Ann Jackson being raped by a man wearing a haunting mask. Shields contacts Ann's father to notify him of her critical condition. As detectives Benson and Stabler interrogate Ann's father, Captain Jackson, his sordid past is revealed filled with sexual and alcohol addiction. Jackson's new role as a sex therapist is hindering the detectives from getting the information they need to solve the case and if Jackson won't comply, the detectives are going to have to get creative.
Detective Saliyah "Sunny" Qadri goes in search of Brooklyn District Attorney Page Ferguson, who she fears may be in danger. Qadri finds Ferguson just in time to witness her fall from the top of a parking garage. When Benson arrives, she discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with. Benson turns to an old friend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson for help. As the investigation progresses, Benson begins to question Ferguson's suspicious past and Qadri's involvement in the case.
When it is discovered that a teenage girl is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to sexual abuse, all leads point to billionaire Jordan Hayes. As Detectives Benson and Stabler continue to investigate, Hayes involves his lawyer, Dwight Stanitch, who throws the whole case awry.
After the sexual assault of a young woman is videotaped and featured on a campus-wide intranet feed, detectives Elliot Stabler and Odafin "Fin" Tutola go in search of the victim and her attacker. As they delve into the investigation, it becomes clear that the perpetrator created a spectacle to draw attention to his own issues.
When Alicia Harding, host of the television series "Neighborhood Predator," begins to receive personal threats, her life-long pursuit to find her sister's abductor emerges. Detectives Olivia Benson and Odafin "Fin" Tutola are joined in the investigation by ADA Sonya Paxton, who may be too involved in the case. As Harding thinks she is getting close to the truth, another's life hangs in the balance.
When an art patron, Cindi, discovers a gruesome work of art, it leads gallery visitors to find a woman dead in her apartment above. Detectives Benson and Stabler look into the victim's personal contacts in search of suspects, including the victim's close friend Annette Cole. The detectives soon discover a work environment that leads them to question if bullying does go beyond the playground.
After Jerry Bullard is found stabbed in a parking garage, Detectives Benson and Stabler discover that the family man might have had an illicit hobby. When the detectives go undercover at a swingers club they meet a popular lady named Cassandra Davina and her jealous boyfriend, Doug Loveless. As tensions grow, the detectives question just how far jealousy can push someone.
When a young girl is found dead with a doll that is believed to have been left as a totem, detectives Benson and Stabler team up with Captain Jackson, a psychologist who assisted them with a recent case, to investigate her murder. Jackson joins the detectives as they retrace the girl's last steps and go to meet with her piano teacher June Frye. Jackson's skills prove to be invaluable in deciphering the meaning of the totem and ultimately finding her killer.
DDA Jonah Dekker comes to NYC from Los Angeles to defend his cousin who has been accused of rape. Meanwhile, ADA Casey Novak returns to help detectives Benson and Stabler with the case. The detectives soon discover that the case goes much deeper than the current accusation and it raises the question: how far will someone go to get revenge for their family?
When an abandoned baby is found on playground, Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of the child's caregiver. Upon meeting the nanny and her boyfriend, Ken Turner, they soon realize that he is also engaged to the baby's adoptive mother, Dede Aston. As the detectives dig deeper into Turner's malevolent past, they realize that the law may be on his side.
When a young woman finds a teenage boy asleep and naked in her bedroom, his mother, Bree Walsh, is quick to defend him. While Detective Benson and Detective Stabler try to figure out what truly happened, they also have to manage the sneaky teenager and his naive mother. As the detectives dig deeper, they discover how deceptive appearances can be.
When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.
The detectives of the Special Victims Unit are called to the scene when a hotel maid reports being assaulted by Italian diplomat Robert Distasio. Bureau Chief Mike Cutter and ADA Alex Cabot prosecute the high-profile case, which quickly grows more complicated as the maid's credibility is publicly questioned. Detective Amanda Rollins joins the Manhattan SVU from Atlanta, while Benson struggles to cope with the fall-out from the shooting in the precinct.
As Coach Ray Masters is inducted to the Metro Basketball Hall of Fame by former students Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh, an ex-player accuses the coach of sexually abusing him as a child. Detective Nick Amaro transfers into the SVU squad and is thrown on to the case. The detectives interview former players but no one admits to abuse, forcing Benson and Fin to dig deeper into Coach Ray's most successful player, basketball star Prince Miller and his manager/cousin.
When a pregnant thirteen-year-old girl refuses to identify her baby's father, Benson and the SVU squad work to determine if she was raped. Their investigation leads to several men in her life including Tripp Raines, the teenage son of high-profile political couple Andrew and Kathleen Raines and Arturo Rivera, the son of the Raines' housekeeper. The detectives uncover much more than they bargained for when a Raines family secret is revealed and a family member goes missing.
A dancer is followed home and raped by a man with a distinctive tattoo and the details of the attack remind Rollins of a serial rapist she was tracking back home. The detectives arrest Gabriel Thomas, a family man who maintains his innocence, but his description and DNA match this assault and the string of rapes across multiple states that Rollins had been investigating. Although the evidence supports the arrest, the more Detectives Benson and Amaro dig into Thomas' past, the more they begin to believe his story.
A young woman visiting from Buffalo claims that her car was stolen outside a Manhattan convenience store with her baby still buckled in the backseat. Benson and Amaro get as much information as they can from the anxious mother and her boyfriend at the police station, while Fin and Rollins track their path from Buffalo for clues. When the parents' stories don't add up, the detectives must uncover what really happened to the missing baby, and the truth surprises everyone.
A young music student is raped at gunpoint in her own apartment, but with her help, the SVU squad makes a quick arrest. Bureau Chief Mike Cutter takes over the case when he finds that opposing counsel is high-profile defense attorney Bayard Ellis. As Ellis works to undermine their police work and damage the victim's credibility, the detectives take the stand to prove they have more than just a he-said, she-said case.
When a young woman is found brutally murdered, the SVU detectives use her distinctive tattoos to identify her as a recently engaged Russian mail-order bride. Upon questioning her distraught fiancé, they learn that she was kidnapped and held for ransom the night of their engagement party. While the detectives follow the money to a deadly blackmail scam run by the Russian Mafia, Captain Cragen goes undercover as a sad and lonely suitor to lure out a killer.
A man in custody at a mental hospital claims to have witnessed a rape in a break room. Despite the witness' shaky credibility the SVU begins an investigation, but the alleged victim, Gia Eskas, denies being assaulted. Detectives Benson and Rollins struggle to piece together what really happened to this young woman, especially when her aunt and mother say Gia has been repeatedly institutionalized, and has cried rape in the past.
A Romani child disappears on his way home from school. Benson and Amaro interview the distraught parents, who are distrustful of the police. The initial investigation leads Fin and Rollins to the powerful leader of the Romani community, but he denies any involvement. The family remains hopeful their boy will be found, especially when they discover his cell phone is still active. With the help of their TARU tech and a meddling newspaper reporter, the detectives narrow the perpetrators to a mentally challenged neighbor, throwing the tight-knit Romani community into turmoil.
A military colleague of Detective Amaro's wife reports his 14-year-old daughter missing. The detectives find the girl working as a prostitute under a possessive pimp. They quickly set up a sting operation to entrap Johns on rape charges with a minor, and arrest aging pro quarterback Jake Stanton. Detective Benson and ADA Cabot seek to make an example out of the football legend, but the case is thrown into chaos with the return of defense attorney Bayard Ellis, who questions Stanton's mental capacity after years of injuries on the field.
An actress in an interactive theater production is raped on stage, while the audience believes it to be part of the show. The SVU detectives hit a dead end in their investigation when they learn the show's passionate director gave the audience, including the assailant, masks to wear during the performance. Detectives Rollins and Tutuola track down an obsessed fan of the young actress who recorded the assault while stalking her, which leads Detectives Benson and Amaro to a respected judge. With the judge's reputation on the line, the SVU squad explores the underbelly of the New York theater world to uncover who really orchestrated the public attack.
The powerful CEO of a private military contractor is confronted by protesters and later found drugged and sexually assaulted in a park. Detectives Benson and Amaro begin their investigation but find the victim unwilling to cooperate. As the SVU squad and the district attorney's office explore the motives behind the attack, a much larger crime and conspiracy in Iraq is unveiled.
An aspiring actress is found unconscious in Central Park with drugs in her system and evidence of sexual trauma. Detectives Benson and Amaro pay a visit to the reality show producer for whom she had auditioned just before the attack, and stop him from assaulting another actress on the casting couch. The detectives arrest the producer, but the situation turns dangerous when his distraught son takes drastic action in order to get his father out of jail. Meanwhile, Benson and Executive ADA David Haden grow closer.