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The World and Everything In It

Lawless Encore: Episode 6, Do You Want to Die?

The World and Everything In It

WORLD Radio

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4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

March 31, 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death. WORLD Radio is commemorating her death by presenting a remastered version of our true-crime podcast Lawless.After Palm Garden nursing home blocks Michael's attempt to end Terri's life, a judge declines to remove him as guardian. Michael seems to move on with his life and for the Schindlers, the legal battle seems to be over. Then they get a letter in the mail that changes everything: Michael is asking a judge to let him remove Terri's feeding tube, to dehydrate her to death. Eight years after her brain injury, Michael says Terri told him that's what she would have wanted.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 (https://publish.blubrry.com/s-120558/episodes/e-144201336/edit/wng.org/donate). Thank you.

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0:00.0

For all of check, full patrol of 75 and I didn't know a plight up.

0:03.7

Okay, give me one moment.

0:05.3

For all of March 2005, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office has been on high alert.

0:11.4

For six weeks, Judge George Greer has been under police protection.

0:16.3

Greer is the probate judge who ordered Terry's feeding tube removed.

0:19.8

We had details of undercover deputy sheriffs at our home 24-7.

0:25.7

They took us wherever we went.

0:27.4

Detectives opened Greer's mail and monitor his phone calls on the lookout for new threats.

0:34.0

They patrol his home, the courthouse, and the house where Michael lives.

0:38.5

I wore a bulletproof vest when I wasn't in the court house and it wasn't at home.

0:44.0

When I walked the dog, I wore a bulletproof vest.

0:46.3

Terry's feeding tube has been out for two days.

0:49.6

With the Shivo case splashed across headlines from here to Timbuktu, activists on both sides are agitating

0:56.2

for action. And some are making criminal threats. Somewhere in the United States, a user logs

1:04.2

on to America online. The user's name is Jimbo, 037,000.

1:11.0

He has a plan to save Terry Shivo.

1:14.3

A couple of plans, actually.

1:17.0

In a chat room, Jim first proposes a payout of $1 million.

1:22.4

The money will go to Michael Shivo.

1:25.3

If he'll agree to divorce Terry and just walk away. If Michael won't do that,

1:32.0

Jimbo has another plan. Ask Terry if she wants a divorce and get her to nod her head yes in response.

1:41.3

If that doesn't work, there's always Plan C.

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