Episode 187: Like, We’re Asking If It’s Racist Against Midwesterners (S20E7 Caretaker)
Responding to a grisly crime scene, the Unit are called upon to investigate the murders of a father, daughter, and son, who were stabbed a bunch of times while they slept in their Upper West Side brownstone. As the case unfolds, a team of SVUs who've literally seen every horrible thing known to humankind, act shocked that a mother could murder her whole damn family to protect them from descending into the middle class.
Along the way, the Munchie Boys encounter characters who've been established for many years acting in ways that they wouldn't, fake NASCAR fandom, and a very bad mom/lawyer. Oh, and the episode forces one of them to do a particularly disturbing Google search for the umpteenth time in the history of this podcast.
Sources:
Child murder by mothers: patterns and prevention - Susan Hatters Friedman and Phillip J Resnick, October 6, 2007, NIH National Library of Medicine
When This Is Over - Hayden, Everything I Long For (1994), YouTube
Music:
Divorcio Suave - "Munchy Business"
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