Heather Stark is a woman who was carjacked and raped by an unidentified assailant. She mistook the assailant for serial rapist Martin Trenway and reported her rape when she saw his picture in the papers when he was on trial for raping Nikki West.
To her horror, Heather wasn't raped by Trenway and refused his apology. Her statute of limitations ran out, and thus she could never prosecute the rapist if ever found. Trenway, however, was imprisoned for Nikki's rape and other women's rapes he confessed to in a plea bargain after the first woman he raped, Lorraine Delmas, came forward to testify. (SVU: "Recall")