On June 23, 1993 chops off the penis of her sleeping husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, with a kitchen knife. She flees their home, tossing the severed organ from her car window as she drives away.
Bleeding profusely, John had a friend drive him to Prince William Hospital in Manassas, Virginia. Meanwhile, police officers went searching for the severed organ. After speaking with Lorena, they found it in a field across from a 7-Eleven convenience store. They reportedly put it on ice from the store, and rushed it to the hospital. A team of surgeons managed to reattach it in a .
Bobbitt would later demonstrate how well he鈥檇 healed by appearing in several pornographic .
After the attack, Lorena Bobbitt, then 24 and an immigrant from Ecuador, alleged that her 26-year-old husband had raped her earlier that night and subjected her to years of abuse during their marriage. He was for marital sexual assault but acquitted by a jury. She was tried for malicious wounding and also found not guilty, in her case . She was for observation and released after 45 days.
The couple鈥檚 made-for-the-tabloids saga would inspire countless newspaper and magazine articles, multiple television documentaries and tasteless jokes for decades to come.
The couple divorced in 1995.
