Dr. Archibald Newlands was a dermatologist who had a practice in New York City called Newlands Skin Care. His wife was also a dermatologist at the same practice.
Background[]
Newlands had an affair with Brianna Morris and she became pregnant with his child. She later went to his workplace and made a scene, forcing him to call security. Because he already had a wife and two daughters, he could not afford to have a scandal ruin him, especially after Brianna threatened to file a paternity suit against him. He decided to get rid of her and the child, so he snuck into her apartment, where he then paralyzed her with drugs from his office. He forced her to give birth to their daughter Emily Rose, and then suffocated her to death.
Newlands also killed Emily by allowing her to bleed to death via her umbilical cord. He then cleaned up the crime scene and dumped the deceased baby in a storm drain.
Serendipity[]
Manhattan Special Victims Unit detectives suspected Newlands in the death of Brianna Morris and her newborn daughter who was discovered by workers. Morris had been preparing to file a paternity lawsuit against him, and she also had been drugged with drugs he had access to. He offered to take a paternity test, which showed that he was not the father. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, prior to the test, Newlands had implanted a tube of blood he secretly obtained from one of his wife's patients in his wrist in order to fool the test. He also lied to his wife that he cut himself by accident to cover for how he got the incision.
He did not know, however, that the blood belonged to a pedophilic serial rapist, and he was subsequently arrested when the police discovered this and he attempted to deny the allegations. Although none of the victims identified him, his wife left him after A.D.A Casey Novak visited their home and revealed "his" DNA was a match. Unable to admit to his deception and innocence in the child rapes without admitting to his guilt in the Morris case, Newlands did not show up at his trial and eventually decided to tell his lawyer, Trevor Langan, the truth and then flee the country afterwards to avoid prosecution.
Before he could, though, Newlands was subsequently shot and killed by the real rapist, Peter Nestler, who tracked him down in an attempt to close the case and draw attention away from him. However, Newlands's autopsy revealed the scar of the area he placed the tube in, which led Detectives Stabler and Benson to realize his guilt in the Morris murders, but not the child rapes. They also went to his horrified widow, and with her help, they discovered that Nestler was the true rapist, tracked him down, and arrested him before he could harm another victim. Nestler was charged Newlands's murder, among other things, and executed for his crimes.(SVU: Serendipity)