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.
At approximately 11 minutes Lennie and Ed are having a conversation in front of the ventilation tower of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel located at 504 Battery Drive. This location was used in the movie, Men in Black, as the entrance to MIB headquarters.