Cheryl McCollum

I'm not sure exactly what they think is possible, but that's what's so scary about all the positivity that has developed around his persona in terms of all of these illustrations, the website they set up about him.

It's really concerning.

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Today, we are talking about one of the most infamous crimes that continues to capture the public's imagination, and that is the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco by an underage girl who was having an affair with her husband.

This crime absolutely dominated the press.

If you are unfamiliar with this case, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, a stay-at-home mother of two small kids...

opened her front door, and was shot in the head at her home in Massapequa, New York, by 17-year-old Amy Fisher, who was having a salacious relationship with Mary Jo's husband, Joey Botafuco.

Mary Jo sustained severe permanent injuries, including partial facial paralysis and deafness in one ear, and she still, to this day, has the bullet in her head.

The case exploded nationally, with the press dubbing Amy the Long Island Lolita,

And Joey denied the affair for years.