John Munch

Detective John Munch (played by Richard Belzer) was an officer for Baltimore Homicide in Baltimore, Maryland.
== Encounter with The Lone Gunmen ==
In May 1989, Detective Munch investigated the breaking and entering of a warehouse in Fells Point Industrial Park. He interrogated and learned of the events that had occurred at the Baltimore Convention Center involving , John Fitzgerald Byers, , , and . Byers, Langly, and Frohike were arrested for the trespassing, Modeski disappeared, and Agent Mulder was taken into custody by the .
When Mulder was released from the FBI's restraints, he ordered Munch to let Frohike, Langly, and Byers out of their holding cells and they were freed. ( "Unusual Suspects")
==Background Information==
* Detective John Munch was a main character on both Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. 
** He has appeared in seven other television shows and his appearance on ties the so-called "X-Files Universe" to a massive fictional TV universe, known as the "Tommy Westphall Universe".
** Belzer also guest-starred as Munch on Law & Order, Law & Order: Trial by Jury, The Beat, Arrested Development: Exit Strategy, and The Wire.
* On Homicide: Life on the Street, Detective Munch has often been portrayed as a somewhat cynical conspiracy theorist.
== External link ==
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*John Munch at the Law & Order Wiki
Munch, John
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