The creepiest, original L&O episode ever. Coster/Bruner would probably "scare the socks of all of us".
I'm not a lawyer, just a huge fan of legal procedural tv shows, and muddled my way thru two years of HS Latin. All of that to say that while I will always watch this episode (~12 times in the past 20 years), the biggest flaw with it to me is that the property was under "lock and key".
This means that Greene and Briscoe should have ran informal and formal property searches not only on Bruner, but also all of his close friends and family. He lived in a dump, so there can't be that many. But more importantly, they should run bank and CC searches on rental units, too (even after his conviction).
If a standalone property that has property taxes, or a rental unit that has monthly or annual fees, nonpayment is going to cause someone to cut a lock and/or smell the decomp.
Is it possible that the bodies are in some abandoned property? Of course. But, those would be found eventually: it's 15 bodies in a locked building, not a single body buried along the Appalachian Trail.
I'm not a lawyer, just a huge fan of legal procedural tv shows, and muddled my way thru two years of HS Latin. All of that to say that while I will always watch this episode (~12 times in the past 20 years), the biggest flaw with it to me is that the property was under "lock and key".
This means that Greene and Briscoe should have ran informal and formal property searches not only on Bruner, but also all of his close friends and family. He lived in a dump, so there can't be that many. But more importantly, they should run bank and CC searches on rental units, too (even after his conviction).
If a standalone property that has property taxes, or a rental unit that has monthly or annual fees, nonpayment is going to cause someone to cut a lock and/or smell the decomp.
Is it possible that the bodies are in some abandoned property? Of course. But, those would be found eventually: it's 15 bodies in a locked building, not a single body buried along the Appalachian Trail.