Debby Courio is a former crew member of Richard Mason’s tabloid talk show. She couldn’t stand the endangerment to guests on the show for ratings, which included a mob trial juror being kidnapped, a prostitute being given a bad batch of drugs she overdosed from, and a drag performer killing himself after his father had a heart attack from seeing his profession.
When Mason arranged for the killing of a convicted pedophile by the father of one victim, Courio was questioned about why the show lied she was fired. She gave the detectives a full history of the show’s disasters, and she even testified in court to Mason’s pattern of offenses. She successfully provided the evidence needed for Mason’s conviction of reckless endangerment. (L&O: “Sweeps”)