Detective Colin Bennett is a Forensics technician who works for the NYPD's Crime Scene Unit. He is known as Detective Odafin Tutuola's "Rope Guy" (SVU: "Justice Denied") and CSU's "Renaissance Man" for his expertise in ropes, tides, solvents, and paints. (SVU: "Brief Interlude")
Investigations[]
- The Gina Logan case (SVU: "Justice Denied")
- Bennett determined that her rapist had U.S. Navy training and is left-handed, through the type of knot the rapist used to tie her to the bed.
- The Ariel Randolph case (SVU: "Brief Interlude")
- Bennett built a timeline and path of when and where Ariel Randolph was put in the rowboat and the course said rowboat took before it ended up where she was found.
- The Rachel Brooks case (SVU: "Criminal Pathology")
- Bennett processed an apartment owned by Carl Rudnick under an assumed name after knife marks are found. He determined that a cleaver was used to dismember the body and found dried blood underneath the carpet.
- The Susie Frain case (SVU: "Criminal Pathology")
- Bennett processed Rudnick's car and found traces of Susie's blood in the back.
- The Alex Ryan case (SVU: "Know It All")
- Bennett testified the rope in Ryan's vehicle was the same rope used in the "Second Avenue Strangler" killings, by demonstrating the cut marks of the strands' ends were perfect matches.
- The Jennifer Knowles case (SVU: "Know It All")
- Bennett had concluded that Jennifer Knowles hadn't been tied and killed with the same rope Alex Ryan used. However, he changed his findings and said the ropes were the same. It was revealed that he lied when David Willard hacked his files and revealed a sex offense charge that would nearly cost Bennett everything, provoking him to nearly commit suicide. The rope evidence could no longer be used as evidence and Willard wasn't arrested. However, a video of him killing Jennifer in a struggle led to his successful arrest and conviction, even after Willard also blackmailed A.D.A. Barba.
Appearances[]
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (4 seasons, 4 episodes):