'Lorena': The true story of what happened that fateful night when Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband's penis
The story of Lorena Bobbitt is one that has tragedy, revenge, a highly publicized trial, and the 'American Dream'
The story of Lorena Bobbitt is one that has tragedy, revenge, a highly publicized trial, and the 'American Dream'. Born in Ecuador in 1969, Lorena Gallo grew up in Venezuela but had always dreamed of moving to the US. Using a student visa as her ticket to the Land of the Free, she arrived at Virginia in 1987.
It was in 1989 that she met her husband, John Wayne Bobbitt, who was a 21-year-old Marine from Niagra Falls, New York, at a dance hall close to his base. The couple got married just six months after they met because her visa was about to expire.
When you look at what happened to the couple just five years later, you can tell that the marriage went sour quite early.