359: Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

This Feels Criminal | Formerly Killer Queens

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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PICTURE IT: Detroit, Michigan, 1994. The Winter Olympics are just around the corner and both you and your rival are training for that gold. The next thing you know, Nancy Kerrigan has been clubbed on her right leg by an unknown assailant. You, Tonya Harding, claim to know nothing about it. Okay, so we all know it, the whack heard around the world, and the fall of Tonya Harding.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome to Killer Queens, a true crime podcast. I'm your host, Tarela, and like most
0:09.5	millennials, I've always had an obsession with true crime. On KQ, you'll find light true crime
0:14.8	stories, millennial hypes and gripes, some adult language, and maybe a special guest here
0:20.2	and there. Just like a 90s sleepover,
0:22.7	we're just a couple BFFs hanging out. So gather around and let's launch right into it.
0:32.9	This episode contains discussion of child abuse, both physical and sexual and domestic abuse.
0:40.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:43.7	Picture it. Detroit, Michigan, 1994.
0:48.0	The Winter Olympics are just around the corner, and both you and your rival are training for that gold.
0:53.7	The next thing you know, Nancy Kerrigan has been clubbed on her right leg by an unknown assailant.
0:59.5	You, Tanya Harding, claim to know nothing about it.
1:03.9	Okay, so we all know it, the whack hurt around the world and the fall of Tanya Harding.
1:10.5	And I want to give a hey girl thanks to Beth for writing this one up
1:13.9	and requesting it. And she said this, and I'm honestly surprised too, she was like, I'm shocked
1:21.1	nobody else has requested this case, at least not submitted a case request form. So,
1:31.6	there you have it. All right, let's get right into it. Tanya Maxine Harding was born on November 12th, 1970 in Portland, Oregon to Lovana and
1:38.8	Al Harding. At just three years old, Tanya began figure skating and trained at the Lloyd Center Mall and
1:44.5	then later at the Clackamas Town Center Mall.
1:47.7	Tanya ended up dropping out of high school at the age of 15 during her sophomore year to focus
1:52.2	on figure skating.
1:53.8	She did later get her GED, though.
1:56.6	Tanya was also interested in hunting, fishing, and drag racing.
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