Just weeks ago, Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers stood arm in arm, united in their desire to care for Terri. But after the Valentine’s Day fight, their relationship is in pieces. And Terri’s meticulous care—the manicures, the walks, the therapy—it all vanishes.This episode was updated/remastered April 2025.

Episode 5.5: Brain Trust

By the spring of 2005, a severely disabled Florida woman named Terri Schiavo had lived in a dark, tiny hospice room for four years. On the morning of March 18, Terri was sitting up in a chair, unhooked to machines of any kind. Her aunt and sister were visiting. As Terri listened to them talk, she was smiling. She had no idea that the State of Florida was about to dehydrate her to death. Lawless is a true crime podcast that examines a frightening fact of American life: That not every crime is against the law. Season 2 completes WORLD's investigation of the 2005 story that riveted the world: the case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-injured woman whose husband and parents fought a bitter legal war over Terri’s right to die, or…. right to live.