Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Wanderlust
Overview
When a world-traveling author is found dead in a room he rented from an alcoholic woman and her precocious 14-year-old daughter, the detectives are shocked to discover who the murderer is.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1999-10-18
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Wanderlust is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 1999-10-18. The runtime is 44 min.
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When a young African-American woman is found dead, she is initially believed to be a prostitute and the latest in a long line of victims, but when looking into her home life Benson and Stabler realize that she does not fit the pattern, and may not be connected to the other deaths after all, but the other deaths have a connection no one anticipated.
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