CI: A church poisoning, a boat sinking, teen orgies and a face slap

Criminal Intent S3 E8 “Sound Bodies”

I just sniffed and licked something I scraped off of a boat with a knife. I’m not afraid of you.

Goren and Bishop search for clues after someone poisons churchgoers on a secluded island. They believe it's connected to the fatal drowning caused by a sabotaged rowboat and a gonorrhea outbreak from teen sex parties. The detectives home in on the reverend's charming nephew and a group of impressionable girls. During interrogation, Goren gets in the teen's face...and he gets in Goren's.

We're talking about Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 3 episode 8 "Sound Bodies." Our guest is Katie Mitchell from the podcast A Date with Dateline.

This episode is inspired by the 2003 case of poisoning at a church in New Sweden, Maine.