Joseph Stabler

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Joseph Stabler was the father of Elliot Stabler. According to Elliot, Joseph was highly abusive and had a great temper. In one episode, Elliot visited a shrink and talked about how he and his father worked on a shoebox diorama in the fifth grade; and after the next morning Elliot moved a tree and Joseph found out so he beat Elliot with his belt after stomping on the diorama, causing young Elliot to get an F on the project for not turning it in.

He once had Elliot's mother, Bernadette, committed to a psychiatric facility after she went for his service gun during a fight.

Little else is known about Joseph, other than that his wife and granddaughter Kathleen had once used his fedora hat and last Cuban cigar for a snowman, something that he was "pretty pissed" about, and that he was dead by 2008. After Joseph's death, Bernadette sold their home and moved to a beach house, where the bipolar woman rarely heard from her son.

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