98: Man Abuses Wife so she Cuts Off His WHAT?! – The True Story of John & Lorena Bobbitt

The Criminal Makeup

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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1:14.8	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today we are going to be talking about the case of John and Lorena Bobbitt. So today's case is about a
1:26.2	woman who became so enraged at her husband who was abusing her for years. He was also having affairs, left right and centre, and in order to punish him,
1:38.0	she took a knife, went to their bedroom, and severed a certain part that nobody would want cut off.
1:50.3	And this case blew up in the media. It was front-page news, the trial was televised, everyone was talking about it.
1:57.0	And a lot of the media coverage just made it one big joke.
2:01.0	Men all over the country were told to keep their legs crossed. And whilst you may know this case, because this case is kind of seen as a big joke, I bet you don't know the full story behind it because behind all of the manhood jokes is a very serious case of domestic abuse and of course there is nothing funny about that at all.
2:24.4	And whilst there have been some great documentaries in more recent times
2:28.0	that dive into the full story, whilst I was doing my research,
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