44: The Lorena Bobbitt Story Part One

Hello and welcome to Crime & Spirits Podcast, where your hosts, Bree & Suze, teach you all about some true crime, spooky stories, and how to make one heck of a good cocktail. 

Join the girls this week while they dive into part one of the Lorena Bobbitt story. 

After years of abuse (allegedly), Lorena had hit her breaking point. While her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, was sleeping one night, she grabbed an 8-inch carving knife and proceeded to cut off the part of him that hurt her the most. What happened next was a media circus, everyone wanted a piece of this story. At the time, Lorena was painted as nothing more than a woman scorned.  She was angry that her husband wanted a divorce and threatened her American dream. In reality, Lorena was a victim who felt the impulse to fight back and couldn't do anything to stop it. 

This incredibly divisive case created a man vs. women narrative that couldn't be escaped. Men couldn't comprehend the violent attack and sympathized with John, women were frustrated that no one was listening, that no one seemed to care about how much Lorena suffered.  Now, almost 30 years later, we're realizing that maybe there was more to this story. 

For sipping along this week Suze is mixing up a Banana Split Martini. Buckle up and sip tight! This is going to be a wild ride.

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Sources: 

- https://www.vanityfair.com/style/1993/11/lorena-bobbitt-interview-sex-lies-carving-knife

- https://abcnews.go.com/US/john-bobbitt-speaks-25-years-wife-infamously-cut/story?id=60023049

- https://www.oxygen.com/martinis-murder/john-bobbitt-claims-childhood-sexual-abuse-domestic-violence-lorena

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/lorena-reveals-how-our-cultures-lurid-responses-to-the-bobbitt-case-obscured-reality/2019/02/13/e227e310-2e25-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html

- https://time.com/5317979/lorena-bobbitt-today-anniversary-interview/

- https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/battered-woman-syndrome-it-enough-not-guilty-reason-insanity-plea

- https://abcnews.go.com/US/25-years-back-infamous-lorena-bobbitt-case-captivated/story?id=56039933

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/arts/television/lorena-bobbitt-documentary-jordan-peele.html

- https://www.biography.com/crime/lorena-bobbitt

-https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-st-lorena-bobbitt-documentary-amazon-jordan-peele-20190213-story.html