One of my favorite new TV/podcast genres is "insane shit that happened in the 90s." I was a kid when all the stuff with OJ, the Unabomber, Lorena Bobbit, Monica Lewinsky, and the DC sniper happened.

I remember all this stuff going down, but, man, all my memories are wrong.
We're watching the Manhunt series about the Olympic bombing, and I don't think I ever realized just how screwed Richard Jewell got.

This is a theme in these shows. Bobbit and Lewinsky also come out as much more sympathetic characters than I gave them credit for as a kid.
Also, growing up in Charleston, I remember when Eric Rudolph's brother cut his hand off to...protest the FBI and the media?

He had it reattached at the hospital my dad worked at.
We used to drive by his house every time I went to get a haircut. (At least, everyone said it was his house.) His front yard was full of religious signs.
Yes, good point, but still the same era in my mind

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