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True Stories of Law and Order: SVU The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show

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ISBN-10: 0425217353

ISBN-13: 9780425217351

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kevin Dwyer, Jur� Fiorillo

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The real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama-including photos! The crimes, the suspects, the trials-as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unitfocuses on twenty-five of the scandalous true crimes that real detectives have grappled with- the facts behind the fictionalized stories on the phenomenally popular TV show. Beyond the actual crimes, the entire criminal process is covered-from investigation and arrest to trial and verdict. This book reveals in-depth accounts of some of the most monstrous offenses recreated on the hit series, including the gripping story of a teenage love triangle that led to the murder of a young girl and the deadly…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/6/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Kevin Dwyer is Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. He is author of Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question and Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East. He lives in Cairo.

Lee Charles Kelley is a successful New York dog trainer whose critiques of the alpha theory and operant conditioning have made him a controversial figure in the dog world. The author of five previous novels featuring Jack Field— Dogged Pursuit , 'Twas the Bite Before Christmas , To Collar a Killer , Murder Unleashed , and A Nose for Murder —Mr. Kelley lives on the island of Manhattan with a Dalmatian named Fred.

Introduction
L&O SVU: ("Control," Season 5) A man who kidnaps and keeps women as sex slaves is castrated in a subway. Later, he's found murdered in a hotel room
L&O SVU: ("Baby Killer," Season 2) A young boy uses a stolen gun to shoot and kill a female classmate during recess
L&O SVU: ("Redemption," Season 3) Released from prison after eighteen years, the "Soho Strangler" is suspected in a string of new sex crimes
L&O SVU: ("Mean," Season 5) Three popular but particularly nasty teenage girls brutally murder a friend and stuff her body in the trunk of a car
L&O SVU: ("Serendipity," Season 5) A doctor puts a tube of his patient's blood in his arm to fool a paternity test
L&O SVU: ("Chameleon," Season 4) A prostitute turns the tables on a man who is sexually assaulting women on the street, but detectives soon discover that the woman isn't the victim she appears to be
L&O SVU: ("Charisma," Season 6) The leader of a doomsday cult sexually abuses his young congregants. The cult has also amassed an arsenal
L&O SVU: ("Uncle," Season 8) A mentally ill man pushes a murder suspect into an oncoming subway train
L&O SVU: ("Slaves," Season 1) A controlling yuppie and his subservient wife hold a live-in maid captive as a sex slave
L&O SVU: ("Venom," Season 7) Detective Tutuola's son and nephew are implicated in the murder of a woman and child
L&O SVU: ("Name," Season 7) The SVU detectives are faced with solving a cold case after the skeletal remains of a boy who disappeared in 1978 are found
L&O SVU: ("Burned," Season 8) A woman accuses her husband of rape, but because be doesn't have a record of violence, he is released. The husband later sets his wife on fire
L&O SVU: ("Scavenger," Season 6) A serial killer taunts investigators into finding him
L&O SVU: ("Game," Season 6) Teenagers take their obsession with videogames to the point of murder
L&O SVU: ("Taboo," Season 7) A young woman charged with killing her newborn claims she didn't know she was pregnant
L&O SVU: ("Monogamy," Season 3) A pregnant woman is found unconscious and bleeding in a parking lot; her unborn baby has been cut out of her and stolen
L&O SVU: ("Counterfeit," Season 3) A woman is found raped and murdered in her car. The investigation points to a police officer who is accused of raping the woman during a traffic stop
L&O SVU: ("Web," Season 7) A teenager sells photos of himself, naked, to pedophiles on the Internet
L&O SVU: ("Uncivilized," Season 1) A known pedophile is suspected of killing a young boy in the park. The real killers turn out to be two young men who killed for the thrill of it
L&O SVU: ("Fault," Season 7) A released sex offender Kidnaps two kids and murders their parents
L&O SVU: ("Perfect," Season 4) When a fourteen-year-old Pennsylvania girl goes missing, police suspect she's been kidnapped. Eight months later, she turns up dead in Hew York
L&O SVU: ("Repression," Season 3) A teenager recovers memories of sexual abuse and fears her father is abusing her younger sister. The father ends up murdered
L&O SVU: ("Pure," Season 6) A married couple rapes and kills a number of women
L&O SVU: ("Debt," Season 6) An illegal Chinese immigrant is held captive as a sex slave in New York
L&O SVU: ("Bound," Season 5) Patients in a family-owned nursing home begin dying one after another. The investigation leads to the owner
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