Elliot Stabler

Detective Elliot "El" Stabler (born October 20, 1966) was a detective with the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, partnered with Olivia Benson for over 12 years. He is currently a detective with the Organized Crime Control Bureau partnered with Ayanna Bell.

Biography
In 2011, he retired from the force without saying goodbye to Benson after the shooting of a young girl who shot up the station. In 2017, he moved to Rome with his family and become an NYPD liaison with an unnamed task-force in Rome. In 2021, he moved back to New York after hearing that Benson was winning an award, where his wife, Kathy Stabler, was seriously injured in a car bombing. He then reunited with Benson at the scene of the crime and apologised to her for abandoning her, 10 years ago, in the hospital. After Kathy eventually died from her injuries, Stabler joined the Organized Crime Control Bureau to get justice for his wife.

Stabler initially suspected the man being investigated by the OCCB, Richard Wheatley, a businessman and a crime boss with close ties to the Mafia, of setting up the murder of his wife. However, it was eventually revealed that his ex-wife, Angela Wheatley, who developed a relationship with Elliot during the case, ordered the hit that killed Kathy.