Skeletal remains of a young boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment building, and finding the killer may ride on Dr. Olivet's ability to uncover a possible witness' repressed memo... Read allSkeletal remains of a young boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment building, and finding the killer may ride on Dr. Olivet's ability to uncover a possible witness' repressed memories of the incident.Skeletal remains of a young boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment building, and finding the killer may ride on Dr. Olivet's ability to uncover a possible witness' repressed memories of the incident.
Colin Fox
- Peter Martin
- (as Colin R. Fox)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several cases/incidents:
- The 1990-1991 George Franklin case. In September 1969, Susan Nason disappeared from her hometown of Foster City, California. Her body, discovered outdoors a few months later, showed signs of a violent death, including a crushed skull and a smashed ring that seemed to indicate she was warding off a blow. A bloodstained rock was found nearby. Police never made an arrest for her murder. Twenty years later, during an hypnosis session in the early 1990s, Eileen Franklin claimed that she remembered repressed memories of being with Susan Nason and her father George on the day of the murder. Eileen said that she had watched her father rape and kill Susan and that he had threatened her, Eileen, too. Franklin was initially convicted of first-degree murder, but the conviction was overturned once the court learned that Eileen was hypnotized prior to recovering this memory and that Eileen's recollections matched erroneous newspaper accounts rather than the true series of events.
- The 1963-1968 Stanley Rice case. Rice was an American serial killer and child rapist who was responsible for sexually abusing numerous underage boys in Canada and the U.S. during the 1960s, of which he killed at least three. Tried and convicted for one murder committed in Florida, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and remained incarcerated until his death in 2007.
- The controversial recovered-memory therapy practice. Recovered-memory therapy (RMT) is a catch-all term for a controversial and scientifically discredited form of psychotherapy that critics say utilizes one or more unproven therapeutic techniques (such as psychoanalysis, hypnosis, journaling, past life regression, guided imagery, and the use of sodium amytal interviews) to purportedly help patients recall previously forgotten memories. Proponents of recovered memory therapy claim, contrary to evidence that traumatic memories can be buried in the subconscious and thereby affect current behavior, and that these memories can be recovered through the use of RMT techniques. RMT is not recommended by mainstream ethical and professional mental health associations.
- GoofsThe detectives are informed by their medical authority the skeleton is about 9 years old and a male. In fact, it's impossible to differentiate between boy or girl's skeleton until after they've gone through puberty and the pelvic structure has changed.
- ConnectionsReferences BUtterfield 8 (1960)
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The coldest case Cerreto and Logan ever caught
Construction workers renovating a brownstone discover the human remains of a child. Little Tommy Keegan went missing in 1962 so it is one laborious process for Paul Sorvino and Chris Noth ever caught. We're not even sure a crime was committed for quite a while.
Sad to say that back in the day the detective Richard Kuss with Missing Persons who handled the case thought that a gay couple living in the building might have been responsible. Had he been able to control his own prejudices he might have been responsible.
In the end for Michael Moriarty the case rests on a female contemporary of the deceased who has suppressed some unpleasant memories about this and other things from her home. Big help for the prosecution is Carolyn McCormick resident Law And Order consulting psychiatrist.
A sad case, glad justice is done here. You will be too.
Sad to say that back in the day the detective Richard Kuss with Missing Persons who handled the case thought that a gay couple living in the building might have been responsible. Had he been able to control his own prejudices he might have been responsible.
In the end for Michael Moriarty the case rests on a female contemporary of the deceased who has suppressed some unpleasant memories about this and other things from her home. Big help for the prosecution is Carolyn McCormick resident Law And Order consulting psychiatrist.
A sad case, glad justice is done here. You will be too.
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