True Crime Obsessed

70: Hot Coffee

Jan 15, 2019 · 56 min · Episode 70
0:00-56:44

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Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair rendition of the facts? Hot Coffee reveals what really happened to Stella Liebeck, the Albuquerque woman who spilled coffee on herself and sued McDonald's, while exploring how and why the case garnered so much media attention, who funded the effort, and to what end.

This week's palate cleanser: Doctor's Orders from the musical Catch Me if You Can.