'Law and Order SVU' Season 17 Spoilers: Cases To Be Picked From The Headlines, Showrunner Reveals [VIDEO]
TVLine caught up with Law & Order: SVU showrunner Warren Leight to get some spoilers about season 17.
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While a lot is known about the premiere, the preview for which is also out, Leight addressed that question of upcoming cases that will engaged with on the NBC procedural. It seems like one only need to look to the most contentious headlines this year.
"If you've been reading the papers in the last two months, you have a sense of how unhinged a lot of men seem to be in our society," Leight said.
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Vulture previously reported that the premiere of season 17 of the NBC procedural will be inspired by the Robert Durst story. The pop culture website has picked up on a bunch of crucial clues from the preview for the premiere that connext it to the Durst story -- from the protagonist being a very wealthy "untouchable" serial killer and also his method to dispose of the dead bodies in trashbags. So Yates is essentialy inspired by Durst.
Yates was last seen as the murderous doc who horrified viewers in the Law & Order SVU and Chicago P.D. crossover.
Season 17 of Law & Order: SVU will premiere on Sept. 23 at 9 p.m. (ET).
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