By Chuck Hustmyre
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Alarmed, Shipman tried to tell the crazed woman to leave her alone, but when the woman acted like she couldn't hear her, Shipman rolled down her window a couple of inches. Suddenly, the woman pushed her hand into the gap and blasted Shipman in the face with a stream of pepper spray. Shipman drove to the parking lot toll booth and asked the attendant to call the police.
Shortly after the officers arrived they found Nowak at a nearby shuttle bus stop. As they approached her, she walked away and dumped something into a trash can. After Shipman identified Nowak as her attacker, the officers arrested her. In Nowak's bag, the officers found a hooded trench coat, a steel mallet, a folding knife with a four-inch blade, several large plastic garbage bags, a three-or-four-foot length of rubber tubing, and $600 in cash.
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| Lisa Marie Nowak |
When they looked inside the trash can, police found a dark wig and a CO-2 powered BB pistol.
Detectives soon found Nowak's car parked at a hotel near the airport. Inside her car, they found an opened pepper spray package, latex gloves, printed directions from Houston to the Orlando airport, emails from Shipman to another Houston-based NASA astronaut named William Oefelein, a love letter Nowak had written to Oefelein, an open package for a folding knife, Shipman's address, and handwritten directions to Shipman's house.
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