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The World and Everything In It

Lawless Encore: Season 2, Episode 3 - No more rabbits

The World and Everything In It

WORLD Radio

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4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 31 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.The Schindlers have run out of options in the courts. Now, they’re calling up everyone they can think of in every position of power in the state. Soon, governor Jeb Bush is involved. Then the Florida state legislature. Politicians start debating a bill tailor made to keep Terri alive…but critics say it makes a mockery of the Constitution.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

Four shindlers are crammed into a Toyota forerunner, Bob, Mary, Bobby, and Suzanne.

0:14.1

Suzanne's husband Michael Vita Damo is driving.

0:17.2

They're speeding from Pinellas Park, Florida, to Plant City, 43 miles away.

0:22.6

The trip is part of a desperate rescue attempt.

0:25.6

This week, a stunning decision by the Florida courts on a life or death situation.

0:29.6

A feeding tube was the only thing keeping Terry Skiavo alive after a heart attack 13 years ago.

0:36.6

This week, her husband won a court battle against Terry's family to have the tube remove

0:42.2

this past Wednesday.

0:44.0

After the October 2002 PBS trial, Judge George Greer ordered Michael Schiavo to remove

0:49.5

Terry's feeding tube that following January.

0:52.7

Then, Greer stayed his own ruling, giving the Schindler's a chance

0:56.0

to appeal. They did, all the way to the Florida Supreme Court. They lost every step of the way.

1:03.5

Now, Terry's feeding tube is out, and after a solid year of setbacks for the Schindler's, this seemed like

1:09.4

the end. Until they learned that Governor

1:12.0

Jeb Bush was in the area, he'd come for a groundbreaking ceremony in Plant City. They heard this

1:18.1

news outside Florida Hospice of the Sun Coast from a tall, lanky man wearing cowboy boots and a suit.

1:25.0

The man had handed a cell phone to Suzanne. Call the governor, he urged,

1:29.6

ask for a meeting. Maybe the governor could intervene and save Terry. Suzanne called, and a few

1:37.1

minutes later, a secretary called back. Governor Jeb Bush would see them. Now the four shindlers are flying down the freeway toward Plant City and that Toyota

1:48.4

forerunner.

1:49.5

The man in the suit and cowboy boots is folded into the third row seat, and there's no time

1:54.9

to lose.

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