Dead (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)

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“Dead”
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 1 Guest(s) Tina Benko Jim Gaffigan Jay O. Sanders Patrick Garner Leslie Lyles Peter Van Wagner Emilio Del Pozo Armando Riesco Magaly Colimon Philip Goodwin David Lenthall James Stovall Mick Plakias Bob Ader Louis Butelli Naelee Rae L.J. Bologna
Written by	Stephanie Sengupta
Directed by	Darnell Martin
Production no.	E3202
Original airdate	September 29, 2002
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Dead is an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

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As the detectives are investigating the murder of an embalmer, the discover a plot involving unburied bodies and a hired hitman.

A key plot element is a fraudulently-operated crematorium. The disclaimer at the beginning of the episode says it was inspired in part by real events. The real event was likely the then-recent national news story of the Tri-State Crematory, which had been stacking bodies for several years rather than cremating them. Beyond this plot device, the news story and this episode had no apparent common elements.