Twenty years ago, Stant whacked Kerrigan on the knee for $6,500 and unleashed a media firestorm and sports controversy that drew worldwide attention. His name appeared on the front page of every newspaper in the country for weeks, and then—poof—Shane Stant vanished
On the day after Christmas, Stant climbed into Smith's black Porsche 944, and the uncle and his nephew drove 22 hours from Arizona to Portland, Ore. The next day, Smith and Stant met with Eckardt at his parents' home, a split-level building made of sand-colored brick that sits roughly three-quarters of the way up Mount Scott in suburban Portland.
The four men—Gillooly, Eckardt, Smith and Stant—discussed the best way to attack Kerrigan. Stant and Gillooly told the FBI that Eckardt suggested killing Kerrigan, but nobody else wanted to go that far. Gillooly said damaging Kerrigan's right leg was the best plan, because that is her landing leg, and if she couldn't land, she couldn't skate.
They planned to hurt her before the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, which was scheduled for Jan. 7 in Detroit. If Kerrigan missed the competition, that would all but guarantee Harding's place on the Olympic team (Harding is shown above skating in those championships, a day after the attack; photo from Getty Images). The men decided the attack should take place in Massachusetts, where Kerrigan practiced.
CNN (long but good read): http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...al&utm_campaign=editorial&hpt=hp_c3&hpt=us_t4
I know some people probably don't give a smurf about this old news, however I clearly remembered this famous story when I was 12 or 13 years old. It was crazy and the news was all over the world. They wouldn't stop talked about it for many months after what happened. If I'm not mistaken, they did made small film about the whole event thing. Did you remember this story?