...These Are Their Stories: The Law & Order Podcast
by Partners in Crime Media, Rebecca Lavoie, Kevin Flynn
Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie recap the most iconic episodes of “Law & Order,” “SVU,” and “Criminal Intent” in this comedy TV & Film aftershow. Each week they break down the case, the cast, the real‑world crime, and the entire Dick Wolf universe — with special guests from across the franchise. If you love SVU recaps, true‑crime commentary, behind‑the‑scenes Law & Order lore, and smart, funny episode analysis, this is your podcast. It’s the f’ing OG of Law & Order podcasts — the original police‑procedural aftershow.
Episodes
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SVU: Cragen wakes up with a dead prostitute!
Captain Don Cragen awakes to find in his bed a dead hooker who's connected to SVU's ongoing probe into rival prostitution rings and the murder of a former governor. Though the squad is ordered not to investigate, Detective Olivia Benson tries to convince DA Paula Foster that Cragen has been set…
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TATS: 250th episode celebration!!
After 11 seasons, several live shows, awards nominations, and being a speed round question on an ABC game show, “These Are Their Stories” marks its 250th episode! Host Kevin Flynn guides listeners on a jam-packed retrospective of the best moments from the podcast. He also talks about the show’s...
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SVU: Fin smokes Gamer Girl kidnapper Logan Paul
Detectives Fin Tutuola, Sonny Carisi, and Amanda Rollins come to the aid of a female programmer who is assaulted at a video‑game tournament. They learn the victim's boss, Raina Punjabi, is being harassed online for her upcoming feminist‑themed game. Despite the growing threats, Raina refuses to...
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SVU: Viola Davis defends Lea Thompson for kidnapping Abigail Breslin
After little Patty (Abigail Breslin) is nearly snatched from a playground, the SVU squad hunts for two would‑be kidnappers. They learn the pair are private investigators who specialize in retrieving abducted children. They were hired by Michelle Osborne (Lea Thompson), who believes Patty is her...
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L&O: Did she kill the guy she paid to kill her husband?
Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of a career criminal in a parking lot. While Ronny Buck's death could have been a mob hit, it has the hallmarks of an amateur shooting. The detectives learn Buck was running a cleaning scam to rob businesses. One heist is connected to…
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SVU: Was she really kidnapped or was she a "Gone Girl"?
Detectives Terry Bruno and Jake Griffin think a man's story of an elaborate kidnapping is just a cover for the murder of his girlfriend. But when she turns up alive, rumors abound she staged the abduction "Gone Girl"-style. Captain Renee Curry and Sergeant Amanda Rollins arrest the ex-boyfriend...
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L&O: The lawyer knows where the bodies are buried - literally!
Detectives Briscoe and Green investigate the murder of a teen discovered in an alley. Knife marks on her breast match those from an unsolved case five years earlier. The trail leads Lenny and Ed to creepy cabbie Mark Bruner, who they suspect is also behind the disappearance of more than a dozen...
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SVU: Rhea Seehorn will do ANYTHING to own the libs
The SVU squad investigates when conservative pundit Martha Cobb (played by Rhea Seehorn) is raped during a riot at Hudson. Unlike other victims, she’s dismissive of Lt. Olivia Benson’s empathy. Sgt. Fin Tutuola arrests the Antifa demonstrator who held the protest sign Cobb was violated with. But...
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SVU: Marcia Gay Harden goes after eco-terrorists and Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Detective Olivia Benson looks into the rape of Haley Kerns, an uncooperative victim and member of an environmental protest group. She suspects Haley's boyfriend (played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach) but when she goes missing, Benson is reunited with Special Agent Dana Lewis (Marcia Gay Harden, in an...
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CI: Goren falls in love...with a serial killer
When the president of Hudson University meets with foul play, Goren and Eames discover a grad student is the killer. During their investigation, they meet a cunning professor who is not who she says she is. The detectives suspect she convinced the murderer to commit the deed. Bobby finds that...
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SVU: You give me AIDS, I throw acid in your face
Benson and Stabler look for a killer who met his victim on an anonymous dating site. They arrest Peter Butler, who's been having quickie sex all over town. The detectives link him to the strangled victim and an unsolved rape, but the physical evidence clears him of those crimes. But they learn...
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L&O: She cuts off her husband's junk then hits Logan with a frying pan
Detectives Briscoe and Logan look into a lover's lane murder and hope to identify a bespeckled suspect from a parking ticket. But their investigation is interrupted when they come across a man who just had his penis cut off by his jealous wife (who happens to clock Logan with a frying pan).…
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SVU: John Ritter's Cesarean is problematic
Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler search for a baby who was ripped out of her pregnant mother's body. The detectives learn Nichol Manning was having an affair and suspect the man who may be the actual father. But the alibi of Nichol's husband isn't adding up. Dr. George Huang says…
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SVU: Ooops! Amaro shot a kid
Detective Nick Amaro shoots an unarmed Black teen, leaving him paralyzed. IAB Sergeant Ed Tucker (and his new partner Brian Cassidy) take Amaro's badge, while a special prosecutor charges him with a hate crime. Against advice from his lawyer, Nick testifies in front of the grand jury, and…
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L&O: She didn't die on 9/11. She was MURDERED!
Briscoe and Green investigate a skeleton with a diamond ring on her right hand and her left one missing. The detectives are shocked to learn it's Kelly Sommers, whose left hand and purse were discovered years earlier at Ground Zero. The detectives trace the ring to a Senator's son who'd been…
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SVU: Elle Fanning burns down Dani Beck's apartment
Elliot Stabler and his new partner/work crush Dani Beck look for whoever fled after trying to kidnap two children. Eden (played by a young Elle Fanning) says her sister is still missing and Marc stabs Stabler with a pen. Fin and Munch think this a part of a child smuggling operation connected to…
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SVU: Dude thought the cam girl was actually into him
While performing a rape fantasy sequence during her livestream, cam girl Zoe is attacked by an intruder. Captain Benson discovers the assailant is one of her fans. "ShyGabe" tells Fin he believes Zoe is in love with him and he thought she was inviting him over to role play. The victim tells Kat…
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L&O: They prosecute a mom who wouldn't breastfeed
Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ed Green track down a young family that skipped town, leaving behind a bloody crib. Each parent claims the other fled with the baby. When the detectives find the infant’s body buried in a backyard, Dr. Rogers determines he starved to death. A lactation specialist…
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SVU: A dirty cop, infant drug mules, and cocaine-mixed baby formula. And Stabler gets his first kill!
Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in when an infant dies after drinking baby formula mixed with cocaine. When more tainted formula is found in the home of Derek Pfeiffer, Fin and Munch suspect he's been smuggling in the liquid coke from Mexico. But things take a turn when IAB takes over…
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SVU: The rapist's new partner is...Stabler!
A retired cop tells Detective Elliot Stabler the perp he's looking for is Ray Schenkel (played by Robert Patrick), who got out of jail the morning a girl was raped. Schenkel had kidnapped victims with the help of his cousin, and Huang predicts he'll seek a new partner. Stabler poses as a sex...
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CI: Who blew up the car? Mom or dad?
Three young boys are killed by a car bomb, their mother Doreen and older brother in the front seat are the only survivors. Detectives Goren and Eames learn Paul Whitlock developed a new kind of land mine and his wife had spotted some threatening-looking Middle Eastern men before the blast. But...
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SVU: Why didn't Daddy pick me??
Lt Olivia Benson helps a victim who can't remember the details of her attack the previous day. Laurel Linwood is spiraling emotionally. She says after her father's funeral she wound up in a bar, met a man with the same after-shave and expensive watch as her father, and now has vague memories of a...
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L&O: They won't convict the guy for shooting that insurance CEO, will they?
After a health insurance executive is gunned down on the sidewalk by a vigilante, Det. Vincent Riley chases the suspect all over Manhattan. Lt. Jessica Brady discovers, not only are citizens unwilling to help them find the fugitive, people start dressing like him to disrupt their manhunt. ADA...
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SVU: Who shook the baby? Mom? The nanny? Stabler?
Det. Stabler and Cpt. Cragen investigate what they think is a botched kidnapping at a playground that left a toddler in a coma. They give up the hunt for a creepy guy with a camera when doctors determine little Lucy's injuries occurred days earlier when she was violently shaken. Though suspicion...
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SVU: Is Bradley Cooper, Angela Lansbury, or Alfred Molina killing undocumented women?
The squad investigates the case of a dead woman found with hundred dollar bills shoved in her mouth. Detectives Benson and Stabler learn the woman was an undocumented worker at a woman's sex club. A community activist (Rita Moreno) tells the detectives 16 undocumented women have been attacked by...
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SVU: That obnoxious commissioner get busted for uploading BAD things
The squad goes after a ring of New Yorkers uploading child sexual abuse material. Detectives Amanda Rollins and Sonny Carisi are stunned to find one of the culprits is Deputy Police Commissioner and major asshole Hank Abraham. As ADA Rafael Barba decides how best to prosecute him, Lt. Olivia…
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L&O: Don't execute HER! She loves Jesus!
An off-duty cop is stabbed to death, and her assailant is critically wounded. Eyewitness Monica Johnson tells detectives Lenny Briscoe and Rey Curtis that she saw the man follow the victim into the park—but holes in her story lead them to arrest her for the officer’s death. District Attorney Adam...
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SVU: A billionaire trafficking teens on his private jet can't get away with it, can he?
On a flight to Paris, distraught 12 year old Dominique says she was forced to give a naked massage to well-connected New York billionaire Jordan Hayes. Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect his ex-girlfriend Dahlia is helping him procure underage girls from around the world. Before they can…
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SVU: He's drugging his wife so men can rape her!
Harris and Katharine Vernon are sent videos showing a man entering their home and having sex with her - but she has no memory of the incident. Sgt Fin Tutuola thinks she's lying to her husband, but Captain Olivia Benson believes she was raped after taking her sleeping pills. Captain Renee Curry...
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SVU: Fin & Munch have a pajama party and go to Canada
Detective Munch thinks a woman has been abducted by the killer he's hunted for a year: the "Bowery Stalker," who tortures and rapes his victims before killing them. With a lead on a new suspect, he and Tutuola drive upstate looking for the secluded cabin of Darryl Kern. They find he's been using...
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L&O: What did she THINK would happen in a rock star's hotel room?
When a college co-ed accuses raunchy rock star Clarence "C-Square" Carmichael of raping her in his hotel room, Detectives Mike Logan and Lenny Briscoe have to decide whether she's an actual victim or a willing participant now looking for a payday. Lt. Anita Van Buren is the only one who believes...
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SVU: Marcia Cross kills Robert Vaughn with Viagra
The estranged daughters of famed author Walter Briggs (Robert Vaughn) tell Sgt. Benson their stepmother is plying their senile father with Viagra and daily sex. They say Charmaine Briggs (Marcia Cross) is preventing them from seeing him and risking his life to conceive a child to get a bigger cut...
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SVU: Is Martin Short a psychic? Or the culprit?
When a young woman is kidnapped by a rapist targeting virgins, psychic Sebastian Ballentine (played by Martin Short) offers to help. Stabler dismisses him as a phony. But when details Ballentine offers about the crime are suspiciously accurate, the detectives suspect he’s actually the culprit....
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L&O: A dead baseball fan, an evidence-planting cop, and an exonerated man who says prison made him a murderer
When a baseball fan despised for costing the team the pennant is killed in a bar, Detectives Briscoe and Green connect the crime to Walter Grimes, a man released from prison after 20 years for a murder he didn't commit. Attorney Rodney Fallon (played by Giancarlo Esposito) argues he's innocent...
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SVU: The dad from 7th Heaven creeps on his son's lady
Benson and Stabler investigate the murder of a pregnant woman found in a burning apartment. A shameless golddigger, she worked for wealthy coffee importer Pierson Bartlett (played by Stephen Collins) and was his son PJ's fiancée. But those paternal bonds are strained when Warner says the baby...
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SVU: Is Benson gay? Kathy Griffin wants to know
The squad searches for a rapist who has been targeting lesbians. Their suspect is a heavy metal vampire, but a blood bank employee gives him a solid alibi. Frustrated by the pace of the investigation, a radical lesbian group pickets SVU. Leader Babs Duffy (Kathy Griffin) has a way of insulting...
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SVU: Liv & Elliot visit a sex club and meet incestuous con artist twins
While investigating a man stabbed in the groin, Benson and Stabler learn the victim and his wife frequent a sex club. The partners go undercover as swingers and meet the victim's paramour, Cassandra (Rose McGowan). They suspect her jealous ex-boyfriend, Doug, might be the attacker. Elliot and...
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SVU: Dude put a microchip in his wife
After an extended undercover assignment, Benson is reunited with Stabler to investigate the poisoning of a model. The case involves drugs, a mute eyewitness, a rabid dog, and an affair between the victim's husband and Naomi, a beautiful dancer (Catherine Bell). Later, the detectives learn her...
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SVU: STUCKEY DID IT!
Benson and Stabler have an open-and-shut case against psycho killer Peter Harrison. But annoying lab tech Dale Stuckey makes an error with the bloody knife, leaving Judge Donnelly no choice but to set the suspect free. Munch and Fin tail Harrison to Coney Island and "chase" him through a fun…
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L&O: Hey! Who stole my kidney?!
Police discover an unconscious man in Central Park who's been the victim of a theft - of his kidney! Det Sgt Max Greavey and Det Mike Logan learn the daughter of wealthy Phillip Woodleigh suddenly withdrew from the organ transplant list. They discover surgeon James Reberty rented portable…
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SVU: Robin Williams manipulates, impersonates, litigates, kidnaps, tortures, and blows a recording studio up all to make a point
Benson and Stabler look for a man who impersonated a cop on the phone and tricked a man into strip searching his employee. The trail leads to Merritt Rook (Robin Williams, in an Emmy-nominated performance), who squares off in court against Novak and wins an acquittal. Rook becomes a folk hero,...
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SVU: Who's preying on the girls in that reality TV family?
When the Bakers, a chastity-espousing reality TV family, come to New York to celebrate Lane's purity ceremony, they discover the 13-year-old is pregnant. After interrogating a cameraman, Fin and Carisi learn that accusations of inappropriate touching by the oldest son, Graham, were buried by the...
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L&O: Briscoe is accused of being dirty
As Detectives Briscoe and Curtis work a drug sting, Lt. John Flynn shoots the dealer. Lenny backs up his old friend's story that Ruben Morales went for his gun, but Rey is suspicious about Flynn's connection to the dealer. They learn Morales was going to testify against a kingpin who had Flynn on...
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L&O: Briscoe solves 3 murders, 1 kidnapping, and delivers a baby in one day
A jogger who died of a heart attack leads police to the unrelated murder of a woman who's been using the Social Security number of Marcella Celaya, who was killed ten years ago. Detectives Briscoe and Green learn that Rafael Berseño, the victim's husband, used to have the last name Celaya also....
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SVU: David Harbour plays with dolls and kidnaps Gloria Reuben's kid
After the body of a mummified child is discovered, Benson and Stabler run out of leads. At a vigil for "Cherish Doe," Fin meets Violet (Gloria Reuben). She's fresh from rehab and fears the unidentified girl is her missing daughter, Nina. The detectives learn the victim is a different girl, but…
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SVU: The hoarder brothers kept their mom in the freezer
The squad investigates the murder of Bobbi O'Rourke, a book author who'd written about her life as a teen prostitute. Carisi finds out the victim was just posing as the writer for public appearances because no one has ever seen the real Bobbi. Fin traces the royalty payments to the home of Joe…
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CI: Which novelist murdered to protect their secret?
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of an aspiring writer. Kira Danforth was surrounded by unsavory literary figures, including a lecherous book agent (Fisher Stevens), an author with a hardscrabble back story (Pablo Schreiber), and a publishing giant who hasn't had a bestseller in years…
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SVU: Stabler beats up Sabrina Carpenter's attacker
Benson and Stabler connect an assault on a child (played by a young Sabrina Carpenter) to the rape of Larissa, who'd been forced into child pornography decades ago. The rapist leads them to Orville Underwood, the man acquitted of making the explicit videos years earlier. He explains that his DNA...
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L&O: Did a drug dealer sell his baby to a woman faking her pregnancy?
After a mother is murdered and her newborn Nicky kidnapped, Detectives Joe Fontana and Ed Green interrogate Frank, the drug dealer who was in her apartment that morning. But Lt. Van Buren says a witness spotted a pregnant woman fleeing the building with Nicky. The trail leads to Arlene…
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SVU: Keke Palmer searches for her sister...and anthrax!
After escaping from her kidnapper, Tasha (played by Keke Palmer) tells Benson and Stabler the man rescued her and her sisters from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The detectives track down the abductor and find Tasha's sister, but the suspect has contracted a fatal case of anthrax…
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About this show
Kevin Flynn and Rebecca Lavoie recap the most iconic episodes of “Law & Order,” “SVU,” and “Criminal Intent” in this comedy TV & Film aftershow. Each week they break down the case, the cast, the real‑world crime, and the entire Dick Wolf universe — with special guests from across the franchise. If you love SVU recaps, true‑crime commentary, behind‑the‑scenes Law & Order lore, and smart, funny episode analysis, this is your podcast. It’s the f’ing OG of Law & Order podcasts — the original police‑procedural aftershow.
Hosted by
Partners in Crime Media, Rebecca Lavoie, Kevin Flynn