Woobie / Law & Order: Criminal Intent

• Goren. He grew up with a Schizophrenic mother, his father abandoned his family, and his mother would always prefer his older brother who's also a drug addict. Then it's revealed his biological father was serial rapist/murderer. Then, his nephew goes missing and his brother is murdered by his own mentor.
• Eames. The murder of her cop husband gives her a Broken Bird status. Her woobie status grows even more when her husband's murder is reopened.
• Nicholas Durning in "Cold Comfort." He's afflicted with early-onset Alzheimer's, which his ruthless but outwardly loving father has been telling him is an aneurysm. Seeing him in the interrogation room, realizing what his medication is actually for and the lengths his father has gone to to conceal it from him (including murder), is just heartbreaking.
• Ben Watkins in "Mad Hops" is another completely innocent person whose life gets destroyed by another's wrongdoing. He's on his high school basketball team, and is not the best player, but is good enough to get a scholarship to a small school in Iowa. As his mother says, it's all he can talk about. Then it turns out his coach, who has fallen for Ben's mother and has been scheming to get closer to her, has been inflating his stats to help him get into college and even killed two people to keep them from discovering it. Ben loses his scholarship, and probably has no hope of getting another.
• Kyle Jones from "Neighborhood Watch". While he may have had sex with an underage minor, it was consensual. However, the D.A. pressured the girl into saying he raped her, he spent years in jail, was harassed by the police and the neighborhood watch, and was brutally murdered. And the girl who he said he was in love with? She just thinks his death was a tragedy for her.
• The three young adults from "Senseless" who were violently gunned down for a flippant reason by a sociopathic nutcase. All of them were well-known as good kids with loving family/friends and a bright futures ahead of them.
• Julie Turner from "Suite Sorrow". Her mother was a standard My Beloved Smother who meddled into her life and was quite proud of it. Later, it turns out that her fiance and father were having an affair with plans to frame Julie to get the money her mother left.
• Rachel Coburn/Burnett from "The Good Child". She and her parents go into witness protection due to the father testifying against some mobsters, the parents end up murdered, beforehand she successfully sought out her biological parents and begins to bond with them after the killings only to find out that they killed her adoptive parents to get their insurance money and then tried to arrange for her to be killed by the associates of the mobsters her father testified against so that they wouldn't have to share the money with her. In the end, she was left completely alone in the world and even unjustly blamed herself for what happened.
• Beatrice Oronato Mailer from "Death Roe". She was a young woman who worked alongside her husband, Josh, and her father in a chain of successful restaurants and seemed to have a charmed life and was preparing to have a child with him, but then her husband murders a restaurant critic to keep his business afloat and then goes missing, apparently to kill himself to avoid charges. However, it turns out that her father killed the critic, framed the husband for the job and then killed him out of jealousy and the access he had towards his daughter, who he's been sexual abusing for years to the point that he is trying to actively make sterile to keep her to himself. He gets caught at the end, but she's still left widowed, financially ruined and exposed for the world to see, even with her father bragging that no one else will want her after the truth comes out.
• Claire Brody from "A Murderer Among Us". Her beloved mother commits suicide and she is left alone to grieve with her emotionally distant father. Aside from her devastation over he death and the gradual revelations of the secrets she held onto, she learns why her mother killed herself: to make sure that it comes out that her husband was a serial killer of Jewish men, like she herself was and to let her know what her father did. Even though he was arrested for his crimes, things aren't likely to end well for Claire; aside from her father's [[Go Mad from the Revelation horrified reaction of learning that his wife was Jewish and his daughter is consequently half-Jewish^note He's hated Jewish people ever since his long-dead mother had an affair with her Jewish boss while he was a kid and had gotten pregnant by him, which shamed the family and led to his father abusing her and making up a lie that she was raped by him, she now has to face that the person who loved her the most was dead, her father in all likeliness going to disown her and even her aunt having a good chance of doing the same (as she was pretty bigoted towards Jewish people herself.)
• Beth Harner and Jamie Royce from "Masquerade". Beth was left heartbroken by the murder of her only child fourteen years earlier and it still being unsolved, despite the investigative efforts of her good friend and neighbor, Nate Royce. Meanwhile, Jamie (Nate's son) had tried to kiss the girl, his childhood friend, and reacted in a panic when she freaked out and believed he had killed her, leading to a life of substance and mental issues. However, it eventually comes out that he only knocked her out, his father went to hide the "body" and she woke up so he killed her to keep her quiet, then misled the mother and the police while playing the hero, and also never told his son the truth, letting him go on believing that he'd killed his friend (presumably so that Jamie would be motivated by self-preservation to keep the secret), and even actively tried to prevent him from getting treatment for his drug addiction for fear that he might decide to "clear his conscience" and reveal what happened.
• Lisa Ramsey from "Wrongful Life". Having been born with spina bifida, she relies on her doting father (who passed away years before), uncaring mother and her brother to care for her. As the brother soon becomes a suspect in the episode's murder, she is left with the aforementioned mother, who sees her as little more than a burden and it soon comes out that the woman was trying to retroactively sue the doctor who failed to explain that she would be born with a disease and would have gleefully aborted her.^note Which was just a smokescreen; she deliberately went to several doctors after being seen by the one who told her about Lisa's condition, hoping to encounter a hack one who would tell her that she was okay, which she did. Plus, once she received the money, she was going to dump her in a nursing home. Ultimately, she only married her late husband to get his hands on his family's money and after losing it all, tried her convoluted scheme to still live comfortably. As both she and her son are arrested for the crime, she screams how she never wanted either of them and that they ruined her life.
• Stacey Hayes-Fitzgerald from "Playing Dead". She is a drug-addicted young adult living with her loving boyfriend, a fellow addict, having been estranged from her family when they are ambushed in their home and he is killed in the process. As she recovers from her injuries, she has no choice but to return to her parents' home which reveals why she was distant from them: her stepfather, a powerful and wealthy politician, sexually abused her while her mother remained complicit to it. After he molests her again, she attempts suicide which causes the detectives to attempt to learn more about her past and eventually the Dark Secret comes out that her kid sister is actually her daughter via rape by the stepfather. Even after learning this, he still tries to downplay his actions by claiming that she seduced him, further toying with her fragile emotions.

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