Posted on 04/16/2005 3:52:38 PM PDT by MisterRepublican
STAMFORD, Conn. - In Oklahoma, Susan Powers is known as a bright mathematician who created a Web site for a group that cares for abused animals.
In Connecticut, she is the mysterious woman who became romantically involved with serial killer and rapist Michael Ross.
Ross, who has confessed to raping and killing women in New York and Connecticut in the early 1980s, agreed last year to drop his appeals against the death penalty. His execution, scheduled for May 11, would be the first in New England in 45 years.
He and Powers, however, have rekindled a romance she had broken off in 2003. Powers has promised to marry him and move closer if he will fight his execution.
"The woman of my life who I love, who abandoned me, has come back into my life," Ross writes. "But now I must go and abandon her. And I hate that, because while I never hated her when she abandoned me, I fear that she will hate me and not be able to forgive me. And that I fear even more than the execution itself."
Their relationship is detailed in Ross' letters - decorated with hand-drawn hearts and flowers - and a deposition by Powers. The documents were part of six days of testimony that concluded last week before a judge who will decide if Ross is competent to give up his death row appeals.
Death row romance is not rare. Nationwide, about 23 percent of death row inmates had spouses in 2003, the most recent statistics available from the U.S. Justice Department. Others, like Ross, have girlfriends or boyfriends.
"They're certainly not unusual," said Sheila Isenberg, who interviewed dozens of women for her book, "Women Who Love Men Who Kill." "They're not crazy. The relationships fill their needs."
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Can I get an awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww?
"Why do the good girls always want the bad boys?"--Gwen Stefani
I also can't understand why girls are attracted to guys like Tommy Lee or the guy Britney Spears married.
Curious if death via execution or other means while imprisoned is an insurable event?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
I don't understand why such women wouldn't go get a retrosexual who's not evil, like a soldier. Then they can have their manly man and know that he's not a rapist and cold-blooded killer of innocent people.
LOL, I guess marrying one of these bad boys has it's advantages, face it, these women will always know where their men are, LOL!
Hmmmm... but in the olden days, a woman could save a condemned man by marrying him... or at least it worked that way in that Jack Nicholson flick.
How trite. Any woman (or man for that matter) who can find kinship with these kinds of animals has a serious disorder of his/her own worth. Like bugs to a bug light. ZAP!
Because they don't really want a relationship with a real man ... just the concept.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"They're not crazy.".
Yeah, it is perfectly sane for a woman to fall in "love" with a convicted rapist/murderer.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"I see," said the blind man. So you're saying that the inability of such a relationship to be "normal" prevents it from ever being anything more than starry-eyed infatuation with an illusion. And she can have that dreamy feeling without having to put energy into sustaining a working relationship, as would be required of her otherwise.
It actually makes perfect sense now.
Stefani quote is thought-provoking. Not sure we're talking about such "good girls"!
That's pretty much what I was saying, yes. A real man in real life is real work. A "man" safely behind bars and on his way to the electric chair is, I guess, a substitute for romance novels, for some really messed up women.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
That TOTALLY restores my Faith In Humanity. Excuse me while I go throw up my dinner. /sarcasm
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