Rosa Doletti is an elderly woman who, alongside her son John Reilly, murdered a journalist named Laura Santiago, who had been planning on filming a documentary about Rosa's meat processing plant and its unhygienic environment.
History[]
She was previously married and had a son named John. Her husband died when John was young and his mother took to raising him, but the life of a single mother was stressful for her. She grew to resent John for being what she declared weak, as well as standing in the way of her goal to fix the meat plant. She soon turned him her over to his aunt to raise. Despite this, John still loved his mother and yearned for her approval. Rosa eventually succeeded in her dream and the factory flourished. At the request of her sister, she reconnected with John who now had a family of his own. She granted him a job as a general manager at her meat plant.
She attempted to frame a former meat cutter and his wife for the murder. However, she was eventually caught and arrested by Detectives Benson and Munch and imprisoned. (SVU: "Beef")