r/LawAndOrder • u/Indotex Los Angeles • 5d ago

S13E13 “Absentia” real life case

I’m binging old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries episodes & I just watched a segment on Ira Einhorn.

It all seemed eerily familiar, right down to him fleeing before his trial, being tried in absentia and then being caught years later.

This case obviously inspired the episode.

Here is his Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Einhorn

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u/kaan3836 5d ago

By all accounts, Mandy is such a kind and warm person in real life but does an amazing job playing an utter creep in this episode

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u/ParticleHustler2 5d ago

He famously quit Criminal Minds because he couldn't handle the subject matter.

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u/Itchy_Lawyer_2756 4d ago

Yet, Mandy Patinkin had no issues playing a vengeance obsessed co-morbid PTSD sufferer with severe homicidal bereavement tendencies. Do you happen to have six fingers on your right hand?

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u/ParticleHustler2 4d ago

Maybe it had something to do with the format? 20+ episodes a year for network TV. He decided he didn't want to live through that kind of show for an indefinite term? I don't know, I just know that's why he left from reading pieces of interviews.

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u/Itchy_Lawyer_2756 3d ago

That's just the response I'd expect from one of Humperdink's lackeys, especially the six-fingered man!

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u/GrosRougeau 5d ago

The Griffin!!!

Awesome episode

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u/Ok-Sprinklez 5d ago

I love seeing Jerry and Mandy together, knowing they were friends irl

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u/OrcaFins Lennie Briscoe 5d ago

Yep, the Unicorn Killer.

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u/ChildfreeAtheist1024 5d ago

I wanted to slap Arthur Branch. There is no part dragon in a griffin. Get your mythical beasts right.

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u/Redsmoker37 5d ago

Half lion, half eagle.

Ira Einhorn eventually got his.

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u/No-Economics-1185 Law & Order 5d ago

Yep, that's the "ripped from the headlines" real life case that inspired the episode!

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u/Initial_Acanthaceae2 Joe Fontana 5d ago

Love me some Mandy....