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I'm Kevin Flynn with Rebecca LaVoy and Karen Cooper. And these are their stories.

Welcome to these are their stories. The podcast about network TVs, most enduring crime, franchise,

and the real life cases that inspired their shows. I'm Kevin Flynn.

Each podcast will break down an episode from either criminal intent S for you or original

recipe. And today we're looking at special victims unit season 14, episode 13, monster's legacy.

But the governor doesn't pardon murders because they had a bad childhood.

Look, it took me 15 minutes to find out that the deceased had a record for solicitation of young

men. I need to prove that the original defense lawyer neglected to tell the jury about

mitigating circumstances. Period. Joining me to do just that is true crime author in the host

of crime writers on and Netflix as you can't make this up podcasts. Rebecca LaVoy. Hello,

Rebecca. Thanks for having me on the show, Kevin. And rounding out our panel is our special guest

from the chick lit podcast. It's Karen Cooper. Hello, Karen. Hi, it's great to be here.

So I got asked you think Benson has a favorite book series. Oh, let's say if she did,

I feel like she would be either really into like VC Andrews, like really messed up because that's

what she does every day. Yeah, yeah. Or she would be and I feel like she maybe would turn it on

a 10 and it would be like a cozy murder mystery like Louise Penny something. Yeah, I was actually

thinking that too because like it's a little dark, but then they just eat like a bunch of stew

and cake in it. Right. And she can just pretend that she goes how many eats pie every day.

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