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Jul 2022
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122. Lisa Nowak - The Love Triangle From...

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On this episode of MWMH, Payton and Garrett discuss the astronaut, Lisa Nowak, and her involvement in a love triangle.


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Case Sources:

The New York Times, “Astronaut Charged with Attempted Murder,” by Newman and Christine Hauser, Feburary 6, 2007


Abcnews.go.com, “The Evidence Against Lisa Nowak,” by Gina Sunseri, April 11, 2007


Abcnews.go.com, “Exclusive: Astronaut Love Triangle Victim ‘Thought … She Was Going to Murder Me,” by Eamon Mcniff and Cleopatra Andreadis, February 7, 2011


Houstoniamag.com, “Tainted Love: The Astronaut Love Triangle That Led to Adult Diapers and Battery,” by Gwendolyn Knapp, November 26, 2018 (published in the December 2018 issue of Houstonia Magazine)


Biography.com, “Lisa Nowak: Why the Astronaut Drove 900 Miles to Attack her Ex’s Girlfriend,” by Sara Kettler, original October 1, 2019; updated October 14, 2020


People.com, “The Astronaut Love Triangle 9 Years Later: Victim Colleen Shipman Opens Up About the Attack and Her Marriage to Bill Oefelein,” by Jeff Truesdell, March 23, 2016


Space.com, “Going with a view? A spacewalk is the ‘best view for a bathroom,’ astronaut says,” by Chelsea Gohd, July 1, 2020


Texasmonthly.com, “Lust in Space,” by S.C. Gwynne, May 2007


Texasstandard.org, “Texans Remember Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Flight,” by Jill Ament, February 1, 2018


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Wikipedia, “Lisa Nowak”


Wikipedia, “William Oefelein”

Assisted research and writing by Diane Birnholz

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