This was a very good, heartfelt episode. It made you double think about life and how you deal with less fortunate people. I know the story has been used on other shows but this felt genuine. The only minus? Kim. What makes her think she can act? Terrible!
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A Complicated Case
ccthemovieman-126 May 2011
A tragic tale of an ex-heroin homeless man who picked himself up, got clean for two years and had a classy girlfriend....only to be found dead in the alleyway he used to inhabit.
The man apparently had been drugged with heroin, run over slowly by a car and set on fire. It's pretty gruesome and quite a mystery of "why" and "who?"
This is a fairly complicated story and the explanation at the end isn't easy to digest, either. You have to really be paying attention to find out how this crime was all planned out.
There is another nice postscript to this story as we see the CSI team - or least four of them - dressed as elves helping Santa Claus deliver presents to needy kids.
The man apparently had been drugged with heroin, run over slowly by a car and set on fire. It's pretty gruesome and quite a mystery of "why" and "who?"
This is a fairly complicated story and the explanation at the end isn't easy to digest, either. You have to really be paying attention to find out how this crime was all planned out.
There is another nice postscript to this story as we see the CSI team - or least four of them - dressed as elves helping Santa Claus deliver presents to needy kids.
Ripped from the headlines
bcameron-0704211 August 2016
Warning: Spoilers
We all know that the Law and Order franchise often ripped stories straight from the headlines. Well, this episode of CSI New York (Second Chances) also rips this story from the headlines. The powers that be at CSI New York have definitely heard of Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt. That's the story of 2 old ladies who went to homeless shelters searching for victims for their greedy scheme. They housed and fed strangers that they met at homeless shelters for a period of 2 years for the full insurance policy to kick in. And once the two years were up, they murdered these once homeless men just to collect on the life insurance policy. If I'm not mistaken, they did this twice. Once in 1999 and again in 2005. They were covered on a couple of True Crime shows.
The main difference with this CSI New York story vs. the real thing is that they use young women instead of old ladies as the murderers in this story. Of course CSI New York also adds a few extra things in there to put their own little spin on the story. Once I realized the very easy to spot similarities with this episode to the Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt case, I had to write a quick review. Of course it's not really much of a "review". Just a thumbs up for doing a real life story that I recognized involving 2 evil old ladies (who both already had a good amount of money).
The main difference with this CSI New York story vs. the real thing is that they use young women instead of old ladies as the murderers in this story. Of course CSI New York also adds a few extra things in there to put their own little spin on the story. Once I realized the very easy to spot similarities with this episode to the Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt case, I had to write a quick review. Of course it's not really much of a "review". Just a thumbs up for doing a real life story that I recognized involving 2 evil old ladies (who both already had a good amount of money).
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