Episode
Law & Order: Blood Libel
Overview
A hidden anti-Semitic message in a high school yearbook offers a clue to an art teacher's murder and leads to a case that matches McCoy against "Klan lawyer" Roy Payne.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1996-01-03
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Blood Libel is Episode 9 in Season 6 of Law & Order. It aired on 1996-01-03. The runtime is 48 min.
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