Kevin Dwyer - True Stories of Law & Order: SVU

L&O SVU : (Control, Season 5) A man who kidnaps and keeps women as sex slaves is castrated in a subway. Later, hes found murdered in a hotel room.
TRUE STORY: Dungeon Master John Jamelske built an underground soundproof room in his backyard, and held several young women as sex slaves for months and years at a time.

L&O SVU: ( Baby Killer, Season 2) A young boy uses a stolen gun to shoot and kill a female classmate during recess.
TRUE STORY: Six-year-old Kayla Rolland was killed by classmate Dedric Owens in Michigan. The gun used in the crime had been stolen by a family friend.

L&O SVU: ( Redemption, Season 3) Released from prison after eighteen years, the Soho Strangler is suspected in a string of new sex crimes.
TRUE STORY: Dubbed the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo was a suspect in the deaths of thirteen women. DeSalvo died in jail before he could be tried, and numerous questions remain to this day about the Boston Stranglers true identity.

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.
TRUE STORY: Four Indiana teenagers abducted and killed twelve-year-old Shanda Sharer, an unwitting participant in a deadly love triangle.

L&O SVU: (Serendipity, Season 5) A doctor puts a tube of his patients blood in his arm to fool a paternity test.
TRUE STORY: Canadian doctor John Schneeberger implanted a tube of blood in his arm to foil a DNA test and clear himself of rape charges.

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 isnt the victim she appears to be.
TRUE STORY: Truck-stop hooker Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men in and around Florida. Wuornos pleaded self-defense, claiming each victim tried to rape her.

L&O SVU: (Charisma, Season 6) The leader of a doomsday cult sexually abuses his young congregants. The cult has also amassed an arsenal.
TRUE STORY: David Koresh and his Branch Davidian cult engaged in a deadly shootout with the ATF, and later battled the FBI. Koresh and many of his followers were killed, as were several government agents.

L&O SVU: (Uncle, Season 8) A mentally ill man pushes a murder suspect into an oncoming subway train.
TRUE STORY: Andrew Goldstein, a known schizophrenic, said he was in a psychotic state when he pushed Kendra Webdale in front of an oncoming train.

L&O SVU: (Slaves, Season 1) A controlling yuppie and his subservient wife hold a live-in maid captive as a sex slave.
TRUE STORY: Pennsylvania high school student Tanya Kach was held captive as a sex slave by a security guard from her school, only a few miles from her fathers house. She emerged ten years later.

L&O SVU: (Venom, Season 7) Detective Tutuolas son and nephew are implicated in the murder of a woman and child.
TRUE STORY: Raymond Levi Cobb killed a woman and her baby while robbing a house in Texas in 1993.

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.
TRUE STORY: The identity of a dead child found on a rural Philadelphia road in 1957 is unknown, and his murder remains unsolved today.

L&O SVU: (Burned, Season 8) A woman accuses her husband of rape, but because he doesnt have a record of violence, he is released. The husband later sets his wife on fire.
TRUE STORY: A judge dismissed an order of protection Yvette Cade had taken out on her estranged husband Roger Hargrave. Two weeks later, Hargrave set Cade on fire at her job.

L&O SVU: (Scavenger, Season 6) A serial killer taunts investigators into finding him.
TRUE STORY: Over a span of three decades, BTK killer Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita, Kansas. He often communicated with the police about the murders, which led to his capture.

L&O SVU: (Game, Season 6) Teenagers take their obsession with videogames to the point of murder.
TRUE STORY: Alabama teen Devin Moore killed two police officers and a dispatcher after being arrested for stealing a car. Moore claimed his addiction to the videogame Grand Theft Auto led him to commit the crimes.

L&O SVU: (Taboo, Season 7) A young woman charged with killing her newborn claims she didnt know she was pregnant.
TRUE STORY: College student Holly Ashcraft was accused of murdering her newborn baby after hiding the pregnancy.

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.
TRUE STORY: In Missouri, Lisa Montgomery is accused of strangling Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting her unborn child out of her body.

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.