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Episode Guide > Season 6, Episode 11

Law & Order: Corpus Delicti

 

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Air Date

Wednesday January 17, 1996

Production Code

K0115

Episode Summary

The death of a show horse leads to a trial involving insurance fraud, a sting operation and a wealthy woman's disappearance.

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  • This was the only episode in the entire history of the series where the initial victim was a non-person. []
  • Byron Jennings, who played Richard Brandson, is the real-life husband of Carolyn McCormick, who played Dr. Elizabeth Olivet on both a recurring and contract basis throughout the series. []
  • Jill Hennessy's identical twin sister, Jacqueline Hennessy, filled in for her as Claire Kincaid in the courtroom scenes when Jill became unavailable as a result of conflicts in the shooting schedules between this episode and the Homicide: Life on the Street episode For God and Country, the crossover episode with Charm City. []

Allusions

  • This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Helen Vorhees Brach case. []
  • The title of this episode, Corpus Delicti, is a legal term meaning 'the body of the crime', and refers to the general rule that makes it difficult, although not impossible, to convict a person when the body of the victim is missing. []
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