Jeffries says Lesson 2 of working in SVU is "get out after two years." In real life, two years is the standard amount of time police work in sex crimes before transferring out.
The inverted Jenny talked about by the suspect Turbit is an actual stamp. It's part of a sheet that was misprinted where the plane was accidentally inverted, hence "inverted Jenny." This sheet was then divided up into sections and individual stamps. Each stamp is now valued over $200,000.
This is the last episode in which Holiday Segal appears as Kathleen Stabler. She is replaced by Allison Siko in Season 3's Popular (2002).
The cookies that the Girl Scouts are selling to Munch and Cassidy, depicted on-screen, are in fact a brand unique to Canada's Loblaws grocery supermarket chain. The Loblaws store brand is President's Choice; the cookies featured are a hard chocolate chip variety from their "The Decadent" line of desert sweets circa 1988, that can still be bought at the Loblaws and Atlantic Superstore throughout Canada as of 2021. They are not a brand readily offered in the United States, so it is unclear why Law & Order used them.
This episode seems to be partly based on the Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb case. These two young men are commonly known as Leopold and Loeb, and were two wealthy University of Chicago students. They murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924, and were sentenced to life in prison. The duo was motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a "perfect crime."