Lawless Encore: Episode 1, Thunderstorm (Prologue)

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week marks the 20th anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death. Over the next nine weeks, WORLD Radio is commemorating her death by presenting a remastered version of our true-crime podcast Lawless. You may remember the Terri Schiavo case as a bitter public feud over a severely disabled woman’s right to die…or right to live. As Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, sought to end her life, the case ignited a national firestorm that pulled in Congress, the American president, and even the Pope.By March 18, 2005, Terri had lived alone in a dark, tiny hospice room for four years. That morning, she was sitting up in a chair, unhooked to machines of any kind. Her aunt and sister were visiting. As Terri listened to them talk, she smiled. She had no idea that the State of Florida was about to dehydrate her to death.The World and Everything in It and Lawless is made possible by listeners like you. To support sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth, visit wng.org/donate (wng.org/donate). Thank you.

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0:00.0	Huge savings on all new 2005 Chevys.
0:06.0	It's sunny all across West Florida with the Beach Boys.
0:10.0	Florida Key.
0:14.0	There's a place called Cook.
0:18.0	Florida.
0:19.0	The Sunshine State. Beaches, theme parks, and snipers.
0:25.1	There were threats coming in from the protesters, and she said that they had snipers in the trees
0:29.6	around the elementary schools to protect the kids.
0:31.6	Sharp shooters that are designed to literally take people out.
0:37.0	Really the only way to describe it would be like a war-torn nation.
0:40.3	Those are just two eyewitnesses to the scene
0:42.4	that erupted in Pinellas Park, Florida in March 2005.
0:46.7	That spring, Florida Hospice of the Sun Coast
0:49.5	was the epicenter of the biggest news story in the world.
0:53.3	As we turn now to a domestic issue that has gotten
0:56.3	international attention, the Terry Shival case. It started as a fight between her parents and her
1:02.0	husband overending her life support. It was to a point where Terry wasn't going to function. There was
1:07.5	nothing more they can do for Terry. Please, please, please.
1:13.3	Save my little girl.
1:16.0	Outside the hospice, police barricades.
1:19.5	A crush of media tents and satellite trucks.
1:22.5	Since the beginning, there have been close to 40 people arrested outside that hospice facility.
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