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I fell in love with a death row killer when I was just 24
New York Post ^ | March 23, 2024 | Claudia Poposk

Posted on 03/23/2024 6:36:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A woman has revealed the moment she fell for a death-row inmate, before spiraling into a life of drugs. Benjamin Ritchie was driving a stolen van in 2000 when a police officer saw him and gave chase. After wrecking the van, Ritchie fired five shots. One of the bullets killed the cop.

SNIP

While living on death row, Ritchie appeared in a YouTube documentary, where he caught the eye of Ivana, then 24. She decided to write to him and from there, romance blossomed.

SNIP

Her own father spent time in jail during her youth.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 03/23/2024 6:36:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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She’s trying to make 24 sound young?


2 posted on 03/23/2024 6:39:53 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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I’m sure it happens (much less often) but you don’t hear about men marrying women on death row.


3 posted on 03/23/2024 6:41:30 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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Read the story she’s an absolute immoral mess and an idiot.


4 posted on 03/23/2024 6:48:36 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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LOL!! In the meantime, he was screwing one of the homos on his unit, or in prison. Convicts only want to know you, if you can do things for them. I can't tell you how many times a girlfriend and a wife would show up at the prison at the same time to visit him. He could only have a visit with one of them, and he had to make the choice. Kind of like that meme with the two red buttons, and the guy sweating, trying to decide which one to push. We had cat fights too, but thankfully I either wasn't working that day, or I wasn't assigned to supervise the visiting area.

I'll never forget one young convict whose mother came to see him. She worked all week, got on a bus in New York City at midnight, rode 5 hours to visit her kid. And instead of greeting his mother with "Hi Mom, thanks for coming...how are you doing?" It was "What did you bring me?"

5 posted on 03/23/2024 6:50:45 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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The men get on death row when they say I do... /s


6 posted on 03/23/2024 6:52:42 PM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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The most common sentence in the diaries of liberals?


7 posted on 03/23/2024 6:53:53 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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Look people. There’s ‘structure’ in these relationships. She knows where he’s gonna be and she can ‘long’ for him when he’s not there. Even conjugal visits are structured. Anyone remember Richard Ramirez the night stalker?

It would be sad if it wasn’t so funny.


8 posted on 03/23/2024 6:54:33 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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IN context, judge not lest ye be judged, the issue is hypocrisy. If you have not mastered a sin, do not try to teach others that sin is wrong. If you teach it, others will be watching to see if you walk the walk and give you the same judgement that you have given them.

It is not about not saying anything when you see somebody do wrong. Abby twisted Scripture.


9 posted on 03/23/2024 7:05:25 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Do you know why I'm always right? It's because I know everything. )
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These are the women that rejected you for “bad guys”. You should thank God for unanswered prayers. You could have ended up with a drug addicted woman that aged really early.


10 posted on 03/23/2024 8:01:32 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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11 posted on 03/23/2024 8:15:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Huh. And some still claim that most women aren’t bat crap crazy.


12 posted on 03/23/2024 8:50:12 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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Women who “fall in love” with death row inmates could trigger a shelf of books about their special kinds of mental illness.


13 posted on 03/24/2024 1:17:31 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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New meaning to “until death do us part.”


14 posted on 03/24/2024 1:32:41 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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15 posted on 03/24/2024 3:36:15 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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you don’t hear about men marrying women on death row.

Years ago we had a weird guy that worked in our data processing dept. who corresponded with women that were in prison.....

16 posted on 03/24/2024 3:52:17 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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There’s a cable tv show called “love during lockup” and a follow up “love after lockup”. It follows idiots, both men and women who “fall in love” with convicts. The convicts use these people for money and “can’t wait to get out and be with them”, until the day comes when they are released and then it’s a whole different ballgame.


17 posted on 03/24/2024 4:36:22 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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Actually, America’s young are so pampered, spoiled and stupid, psychologists (and, I hate those charlatans) have bumped the actual age of “adulthood” to 30.


18 posted on 03/24/2024 6:43:07 AM PDT by LouAvul (If America will repent of its wickedness and return to Christ, He will forgive and restore. )
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I remember reading of women falling for prisoners fifty years ago. Actress Sue Lyons(Lolita) is a fine example. “a subsequent marriage to imprisoned murderer Cotton Adamson in 1973.”

I believe the Boston Marathon Bomber gets lots of marriage proposals.


19 posted on 03/24/2024 7:37:50 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Death row groupies. It’s a real thing.


20 posted on 03/24/2024 8:02:02 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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