Season Twelve
Season Twelve
Who Let the Dogs Out?
When a jogger is mauled to death by a dog in Central Park, Briscoe and Green trace the vicious animal to a prisoner serving two life sentences in Attica.
REAL CASE:
The dog-mauling murder of Diane Whipple.
Armed Forces
Briscoe and Green discover conflicting information about a down-and-out Vietnam veteran who is murdered.
For Love or Money
A hit man's death leaves Briscoe and Green questioning a widow and daughter who may have hired the assassin to kill their rich relative.
Soldier of Fortune
Briscoe and Green investigate the deaths of a banker and jeweler who were conspiring to steal millions of dollars from a wealthy family.
REAL CASE:
Conflict Diamonds
Possession
The detectives investigate the death of a woman who had a rent-controlled apartment that blocked the sale of her apartment building.
Formerly Fmaous
Briscoe and Green investigate a not-so-open-and-shut case involving the shooting death of a singer's wife.
REAL CASE:
The murder of Robert Blake's wife.
Myth of Fingerprints
A guilt-ridden Van Buren fears she helped convict an innocent man 12 years earlier; Green and Briscoe find evidence of forensic abuse by the medical examiner.
The Fire This Time
The investigation of an arson case that turned fatal leads to charges against environmental activists.
REAL CASE:
The Earth Liberation Front case
3 Dawg Night
A fatal shooting at a dance club involves a hip-hop artist and his movie-star girlfriend.
REAL CASE:
The Puff Daddy/Jennifer Lopez incident New Year's Eve 1999.
Prejudice
The murder of a magazine publishing company's black CEO leads to a suspect who has a clear streak of racism and whose attorney intends on using that as a mental defect.
The Collar
The confidentiality of a confession hinders the detectives probe of a priest's murder.
Undercovered
The distraught father of a sick 9-year-old is the main suspect when an insurance executive is found dead.
DR 1-102
The investigation of the killings of two women leads to a hostage situation, in which Southerlyn responds to the suspect's request for a lawyer.
Missing (a.k.a. Interned)
Frantic parents urge detectives to find their missing 24-year-old daughter, who worked as an aide to a state senator and might be linked to other politicians.
REAL CASE:
Chandra Levy's disappearance and murder.
Access Nation
A murdered psychologist's confidential computer files may hold the key to solving her death.
Born Again
The death of an 11-year-old girl sends the detectives to investigate her mother, leading them to a therapist with an unusual technique known as "rebirthing".
REAL CASE:
The Candace Newmaker case.
Girl Most Likely
Detectives suspect a high-school whistle-blower was killed for exposing students operating a racy Website, but a witness is reluctant to testify.
Equal Rights
Angry investors who lost their life savings become suspects in the murder of an investment analyst who recommended the stock of a company caught up in a high-profile bankruptcy scandal.
REAL CASE:
The Enron bankruptcy.
Slaughter
The investigation of a student's killing leads to a case involving meat contamination at a food service.
REAL CASE:
The Jack in the Box and Sizzle food poisoning cases.
Dazzled
The detectives investigate the death of a woman whose body was found on an apartment-building terrace.
Foul Play
The investigation of a private investigator's killing leads to Little League baseball and the possibility of players being overage.
REAL CASE:
The case of an overage Little League player.
Attorney Client
The wife of a zealous defense lawyer is murdered in the couple's car, but detectives suspect she might not have been the true target.
Oxymoron
Detectives discover the son of a crime boss controlled a murdered doctor guilty of writing fraudulent prescriptions for a highly addictive painkiller.
Patriot
Thinking a terrorist is within striking distance, a suspicious neighbor resorts to vigilante extremes and concocts a bizarre theory of self-defense.
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