Monster (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)

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“Monster”
Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 15 (#37 overall)
Written by Dick Wolf (creator)
René Balcer (developer and story)
Marlene Meyer (story and teleplay)
Stephanie Sengupta (story editor)
Directed by Joyce Chopra
Guest stars Mike Starr
Adam Storke
Christine Jones
Terri Conn
Stephen Singer
Deborah LaCoy
Jade Yorker
Production no. E3214
Original airdate March 2, 2003
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Monster is a second season episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Parts of the episode are based on the Central Park Jogger case.

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[edit] Plot summary

In this episode, Detectives Goren and Eames the case of a woman found raped and slain at her apartment.

As Goren and Eames close in, they focus their search on the victim's son, a recently paroled after serving 15 years for murder. But the detectives expand the search beyond the scope of the suspected crime when evidence of another crime emerges. Then, they meet the lead detective who investigated this earlier case, which involved three teenagers and the same type of circumstances present in the instant case. They begin to believe the two incidents could be linked.

After further investigation, Goren suspect the man might have forced a confession from the young men, who were jailed for revealing a sophisticated cover-up to rush other cases to closure.

[edit] Cast

Vincent D'Onofrio Det. Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe Det. Alexandra Eames
Jamey Sheridan Capt. James Deakins
Courtney B. Vance A.D.A. Ron Carver

[edit] Facts

This episode contains elements of both the Robert Chambers case and the Central Park Jogger case.

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