Law & Order: SVU
Title: A Lover Scorned
Disclaimer: SVU and its characters belong to Dick Wolfe. I'm just playing with them.
10:30 pm
Christopher Park
The Village, NYC
"Elliot, over here," yelled Olivia. Detective Olivia Benson was crouched over the body of a 16-year-old boy who was first discovered this evening by a couple strolling in the park.
"What does it look like Olivia?" "Can you tell the cause of death?" responded Detective Elliot Stabler, Olivia's partner.
"No, not really, in fact, he looks so peaceful, as though he is sleeping. The couple that found him thought he was resting and they shook him to wake him up to go home. That's when they realized that he was dead." Said Olivia.
"Why have they called SVU, this sounds like a homicide?" said Elliot.
At that time, a crime scene investigator stepped up to Olivia and Elliott. "There was a note found in the victims hands that led us to believe that this case involved sex crimes."
The note was handed to Elliot.
"What does it say?" inquired Olivia looking on inquisitively.
"Hmm, it looks like a goodbye love letter, but it is full of riddles and esoterism. We'll have to take it to our psychologist to review for content" responded Elliot as he put the love letter in a plastic bag and placed it in his jacket breast pocket.
9:00 am
Special Victim's Unit
Station House
"What did I miss last night," said Det. Tutuola who had spent the night on a stake out watching an old man grope a prostitute. Walking into the squad room, Tutuola addressed Olivia and Elliot, "whatever you two did HAD to top my night's activities."
"Well, even if we had sat on asses in here all evening we would still have had a better evening than you did." Elliot enjoyed teasing Tutuola about his assignment to find the killer of a comedic transvestite who frequented the most colorful and hedonistic sites.
"Seriously now, we need to focus on last night's case," interjected Capt. Cragen. "It looks like one of our best clues has to do with a note that was found on the victim when he was found in the village."
Dr. George Huang took this as his cue to impart his opinion on the contents of the note, "the note seems to be some sort of love letter to the victim, however, it is riddled with intrigue." "The author of the note professes profound love for the victim however, makes statements that reflect his superiority over the victim."
"Him" questions Det. Munch, wasn't the victim a boy? "Was this a homosexual homicide?"
Olivia glares at Munch in disgust, "we can assume that it was, the boy was discovered in Christopher Park in the Village." "In any case, Dr. Huang is there anything that you can tell from the letter that would indicate the type of relationship that the author of the note had with the boy?"
"Yes, I would hypothesize that this love note is a letter from a much older man who was obsessed with this boy. It seems from the letter that the relationship was not reciprocal in the eyes of the author. In which case, the author is scolding the boy for not having the fortitude and maturity to understand their relationship on a higher level."
"Hmm," mumbled Cragen, "It sounds like we should start with locating the author of this note." "Were there any witnesses at the scene?"
"No," responded Elliot. "However, once the medical examiner gets done with the autopsy we will have more information to go on, like the cause of death. The cause of death was not immediately evident at the crime scene."
2:30 pm
Coroner's Office
Medical Examiner
"Whoever murdered this boy did so in a gentle way, as if they regretted that it had to be done," stated the ME.