Les Savitt is the husband of Gwen Savitt, with whom he was the prospective parent of the baby son of Debra Elkins. The couple boarded Elkins at their home and paid for her maternity care while they arranged for fees to be paid for the adoption and built their nursery in their brownstone.
It was revealed Elkins was really conning the couple for increasing fees under the false promise of her child. She threatened the Savitts with abortion, which went as far as directions to abortion clinics and pictures of dead fetuses, if they refused to pay. Fearing they could lose the baby, they defended her even at trial when she hemorrhaged during birth and her crimes were tracked.
When Elkins’ boyfriend Stephen J. Shaw extorted the couple for even more money, the Savitts admitted everything to the prosecution, requesting absolution of perjury charges for their testimony, which was granted. Shaw as threatened charges to get him to roll on Elkins and they were both imprisoned.
The Savitts left the city with the baby boy to get away from the nightmare, the prosecution musing they didn’t want Elkins coming back for parental rights, (L&O: "Breeder")