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Poor self-esteem, severe depression, and self-isolation was Lorena Bobbitt's behavior during her marriage with John. Common symptoms of battered woman's syndrome according to the forensic psychiatrist who performed a full mental health evaluation on Lorena after she maimed her husband. Dr. Susan Feister even elaborated that Lorena suffered severe depression as a result in her failing marriage.
S1, EP6 "State Rests Case-In-Chief"
The Commonwealth of Virginia rested its case against Lorena Bobbitt who was on trial for cutting her husband John's penis off. She was pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Lorena claimed that she wounded her husband in the heat of passion after he had attacked her. But then in her initial statements to police, she also complained that John did not satisfy her sexually.
S1, EP7 "John Bobbitt's Side Of The Story"
During the Defense's case, John Bobbitt returned to the stand in his wife's trial. He explained the fights they had during their rocky 4-year marriage. It was just 5 days after their anniversary that Lorena cut off his penis with a kitchen knife. Her defense tried to discredit her husband in the eyes of the jury during her trial. On the stand, they grilled John with questions about physical and verbal fights the couple had during their marriage.
S1, EP8 "Rough Sex"
John Bobbitt was defending himself on the stand, as his wife stood trial for cutting off his penis. He denied repeatedly that he beat Lorena, and instead, he claimed it was Lorena who was violent with him over the years. The jury then learned from witnesses who claimed that John enjoyed rough sex and hurting his partners. What would the jury make of that, since his wife, Lorena, claimed he sexually assaulted her.
S1, EP9 "Dirty Laundry"
The Defense's case was to expose all the dirty laundry when it came to John Bobbitt's sex life. Witnesses they called to the stand accused him of not only enjoying rough sex, but they said he liked causing pain and hearing the women yell for help. Lorena's friends and co-workers claimed as a husband John was jealous, controlling, and violent. Testimony had been emotional and graphic at times during this trial as witnesses talked about the Bobbitt's' sex life.
S1, EP5 "Police's Investigation"
Prosecutors brought in police officers who had been at the scene of the apartment. Hours after the attack, Lorena Bobbitt was arrested and questioned by police while her husband, John, was at a hospital because his penis had been chopped off. The lead detective on the stand recalled his full police interview with the defendant.
S1, EP4 "The Successful Microsurgery"
Jurors listened to how police officers scrambled around her neighborhood to try to find Lorena Bobbitt's husband's severed penis. She was accused of cutting it off, then getting into her car, driving off and tossing it out of the car window. Jurors then got graphic details on how John Bobbitt's penis was re-attached successfully in a nine-hour procedure. The urological surgeon explained in detail on how microvascular surgery was performed.
S1, EP3 "Bad Sex Or Marital Rape?"
Jury watched a fiery cross-examination of John Bobbitt. He testified that he wanted to have sex with his wife, Lorena, hours before she sliced his penis off. But he claimed he was too drunk and tired and simply passed out. Her defense claimed he sexually assaulted her. Next, John's longtime friend took the stand. Robert Johnston happened to be in the apartment on the night of the attack when Lorena chopped John's penis off.
S1, EP2 "A Husband's Mutilation"
The first witness prosecutors bring to the witness stand is Lorena Bobbitt's husband, John; he tells jurors plainly, she just cut it off; the jury learns the background on what lead up to John's maiming.
