In 1992—when Amy Fisher dominated every news channel—there lived two men. The first was a once-prominent cartoonist who had a very public fall from grace. The other was an alcoholic who worked in a landfill. Both lived in different parts of the country and led completely separate lives—until their paths crossed.

You know their names. And for over twenty years, you thought you knew their story—until their journals were found and authenticated in 2014.

And what we thought we knew—what the old news clips and the old stories wanted us to think—was all wrong.