Law & Order: SVU’s Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson, the commanding officer of a fictional Special Victims Unit in New York City, was key in investigating “over 11,000” sexual assault cases in Detroit, Michigan.The turn of events, set to be explored in the Thursday, August 15 episode of the news podcast, “Dateline True Crime Weekly,” saw Hargitay, 60, funding the mission of a prosecutor, Kym Worthy, who discovered more than 11,000 untested rape kits sitting on the shelf in a police evidence room.
Andrea Canning, a veteran NBC News journalist and the podcast’s host, shared details of the upcoming podcast episode on the Today show on Tuesday, August 13.“They found 22 serial rapists among these kits … and they needed money for this effort so who stepped in? None other than Law & Order’s Mariska Hargitay,” Canning, 51, said.
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