'Law & Order: SVU's Mariska Hargitay Partnered With a Prosecutor to Solve Real-Life Crimes
After more than a quarter of a century playing a police officer,Mariska Hargitaycontinues to advocate for real life victims. Recently,DatelineNBC’sAndrea Canningwent on theTodayshow, highlighting the newest episode ofDateline True Crime Weekly.It was then that Canning says Hargitay actually helped a Michigan prosecutor withthousandsof sexual assault cases. It came about like this: Michigan prosecutorKym Worthydiscovered that there were 11,000 untested rape kits in an evidence locker. She took it upon herself to work to get them tested....