Jordan Peele and Amazon are making a Lorena Bobbitt documentary series

Jayme Deerwester | USA TODAY

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Get Out writer/director Jordan Peele is going from the sunken place to one of the most sensational stories of the 1990s.

The Oscar winner is producing Lorena, a four-part documentary series for Amazon about Lorena Bobbitt, the Virginia woman who made headlines after she cut off the penis of husband John Wayne Bobbitt with a kitchen knife in 1993 and threw it out her car window.

Amazon's announcement suggests that Lorena will participate.

A quarter-century later, Peele says in a statement, “when we hear the name Bobbitt, we think of one of the most sensational incidents to ever be catapulted into a full-blown media spectacle. With this project, Lorena has a platform to tell her truth as well as engage in a critical conversation about gender dynamics, abuse, and her demand for justice. This is Lorena’s story and we’re honored to help her tell it."

Heather Schuster, the new head of unscripted series for Amazon, added, "Lorena reframes Lorena Bobbitt’s story around issues of sexism and domestic abuse, and offers Prime members an exclusive new view into how America got her story wrong and maybe continues to get it wrong."

Bobbitt's trial on malicious wounding charges preceded the O.J. Simpson trial, helped usher in the 24-hour news cycle and doubled the ratings for 2-year-old Court TV (since rebranded as TruTV), which offered wall-to-wall coverage of her trial.

Audiences couldn't get enough of the lurid details of the Bobbitts' dysfunctional six-year marriage, which ended in divorce in 1995. She described him as physically, verbally and sexually abusive, as well as being a selfish lover who flaunted his infidelities.

Eventually, a jury acquitted Lorena on the grounds that she was temporarily insane. John was found not guilty of raping her, the incident that allegedly made her "snap."

Amazon did not say when Lorena will be released.

Television and movies have been on a 1990s crime spree of late.

The Oscar-winning I, Tonya told the story of the 1994 plot to wound figure skater Nancy Kerrigan from the perspective of rival Tonya Harding.

FX just finished airing American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace, about the designer's 1997 murder by serial killer Andrew Cunanan. It was the sequel to the Emmy-winning People vs. O.J. Simpson. Last summer, NBC aired Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Brothers.

Meanwhile, streaming rival Netflix has enjoyed a string of true-crime documentary success with the buzzy Making a Murderer and The Keepers.