Kelli Giddish

SVU takes on the Elliot Rodger case

Online this summer, you may have seen a sun-streaked video thumbnail of Elliot Rodger, a boy in his mid-20s who went on a killing spree near the University of California, Santa Barbara. Leaving behind his video and lengthy manuscript, Rodger murdered six people and injured 13 more before taking his own life.

So what did SVU do? It took the Rodger case’s major storyline and turned it in to the best “ripped-from-the-headlines” case yet!

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