On a desultory day at the precinct Jerry Orbach receives a call from anonymous source saying that a prominent millionaire has died and it was not
natural causes. When he and Chris Noth arrive the wagons are circled and
the widow Caroline Lagerfelt has dispatched the body to the funeral home.
Lagerfelt insists on no autopsy. Her stepson Malcolm Gets has other ideas and hires his own investigation.
Murder may have been done and if it was it was by a truly exotic means which I won't reveal. But the issue is was evidence obtained illegally by the PI who got well paid by the son. What about the poor defendant who can't afford the rates of a PI? It's the issue that will form the basis of an appeal.
The episode was based on the Claus Von Bulow case with the roles reversed as the husband is now the victim. We know how that one went.
The rich really can buy their own justice on some occasions.
Lagerfelt insists on no autopsy. Her stepson Malcolm Gets has other ideas and hires his own investigation.
Murder may have been done and if it was it was by a truly exotic means which I won't reveal. But the issue is was evidence obtained illegally by the PI who got well paid by the son. What about the poor defendant who can't afford the rates of a PI? It's the issue that will form the basis of an appeal.
The episode was based on the Claus Von Bulow case with the roles reversed as the husband is now the victim. We know how that one went.
The rich really can buy their own justice on some occasions.