Posted on 03/27/2005 1:07:24 PM PST by SmithL
Scott Peterson, the man who was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn child, had been on Death Row barely an hour when the first proposal arrived from a woman who wants to be the new Mrs. Scott Peterson.
Three dozen phone calls came in to the warden's office on Peterson's first day at his new home in San Quentin State Prison -- women were pleading for his mailing address, and one smitten 18-year-old said she wanted to marry him.
As far as anyone knows, these women don't really know Peterson -- and unlike Laci Peterson, they certainly haven't spent any time with him, usually a requisite for getting married -- but, according to several experts on the world of the condemned, it doesn't really matter.
What matters is the allure of marrying a notorious man, regardless of the fact that he may well end his days with a state-approved needle sticking out of his arm. There's the danger of it all, and, ultimately, the safety of it: If things go wrong, the wife can walk away.
"They love the celebrity status," said Jack Levin, a criminologist who is director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University in Boston. Levin is co-author of the book "Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder," which explores, among other things, what Levin called "killer groupies."
"These are the same women who might correspond with a rock star or a rap artist," Levin said. When such a woman writes to a rock star, he said, "the best she can hope for is a computerized signature on a photograph." When she writes to a serial killer on Death Row, "she might get a marriage proposal."
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That's true, but they all need mental help.
esp. the rich men.......
I don't suppose there are conjugal visits for death row inmates?
Do these mentally disturbed idiots realize he gouged out the eyes of his victims so they wouldn't be able to recognize him and testify against him in count?
Sick people, all of them.
And these are only the proposals coming from outside San Quentin. There are plenty more coming from inside......
Apparently not in California.
I bet there are a lot of women in CA that do this stuff...
These guys go decades before execution, and they might have some social security benefits accrued that the WINO (Wife In Name Only) can collect. I do not give these women credit for ANY valid or decent motives.
Hey, *I'm* available.
Jeez, who do I have kill to get a girlfriend? :p
Hopefully, Shiavo will be there soon so they'll have another inmate to swoon over. Oh, never mind, he already has a live-in and kids.
There's got to be something totally different about the female psyche. No man would ever consider wanting to have anything to do with a woman in a similar situation. Case in point is that there are evidently no men wanting to marry the likes of Susan Smith or Andrew Yates.
Make that Andrea Yates. I can understand about Andrew!
I am reminded of "The Stand" when I read of such things. It will all come to pass.
FMCDH(BITS)
Got that right. Sick
If, hypothetically, one out of every thousand people is a complete lunatic, then there are 6 million lunatics in this world. Presumably, half of them are women.
Just something to think about.
that's funny
sheesh - mark this as the *most* incomprehensible thing I have read this week. ICK!
No shortage of women [or men] who are really f--ked up.
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