Adell Alynn Addison was born on June 21, 1966 and was murdered in 1988.
This episode marks the first appearance of Jenny Gago as Detective Beatrice Zapeda. She would go on to appear in The Touch (1990), Green Eyes (1990) and all of the television film sequels except for Alien Nation: The Enemy Within (1996).
The article about the Doctor of Death is published in a February 1996 issue of the Los Angeles Tribune. In reality, there were three separate newspapers of that name published from 1886 to 1890, 1911 to 1918 and 1941 to 1960 respectively. It was also the name of the fictional newspaper featured in Lou Grant (1977).
This episode takes place in 1988 and February 1996.