This episode appears to be based on the following cases:
- The 2003 Gary Ridgway (a.k.a. "The Green River Killer") case.
- The 1973 Robert Garrow case and the related "Buried Bodies" legal ethics case.
Thom Sesma has played four different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 3.4 The Corporate Veil (1992) - Dr. Blum.
- Episode 4.21 Doubles (1994) - Tom Boden.
- Episode 8.24 Monster (1998) - Mark Considine.
- Episode 14.1 Bodies (2003) - Detective Ed Goldstein.