Mrs. Panachek is the widow of Steven Panachek. They have one son together, and she is pregnant with their second child. After the murder of her husband she receives a visit from Detectives Benson and Stabler.
They express their condolences for the loss of her husband, but Benson later turns on her when she realizes that her late husband was a war criminal, which she defended dismissing it as politics, to which Benson asked what it was like sleeping with a man who raped several women, which caused an angry and distraught Mrs. Panachek to kick Benson and Stabler out of her house. (SVU: "Payback")