• Who smuggled a convicted murderer out of prison in a dog cage?
Who attempted a copycat murder to try getting a serial killer off the hook?
Here are 10 convicted murderers and the people that fell in love with them.
10 – Toby Young • Toby Young was running a service in which
she brought dog training to prison inmates.
• The point of the program was to have the inmates care for the animals as a way to help
them show some empathy.
• It kinda backfired when Young met convicted murderer John Manard and instead started showing
empathy for HIM.
• Young left her husband and two children behind, and smuggled Manard out of prison
in one of the dog cages.
She took him to a secluded log cabin with some cash, a few books, a Playstation, and
a BUNCH of sex toys.
• The police tracked them down a few weeks later and sent them both back to prison.
9 – Carole Ann Boone • Carole Ann Boone met Ted Bundy when he
was being tried in Florida for a chain of serial murders.
• She continued to plead his innocence even after three guilty verdicts, and actually
married him in the courtroom just before he was sentenced to death.
• Boone remained married to Bundy for six years, and even had a child with him.
• Eventually, she came to her senses and realized he was guilty, at which point she
divorced him and moved far away.
8 – Rosalie Martinez • Oscar Ray Bolin, Jr. was on trial for
the rape and murder of three women in Tampa, Florida.
Rosalie Martinez was his public defender.
• Let's just say she got a bit too close to her work.
• Martinez left her husband and four children behind to marry Bolin, and more than 20 years
later, they remain married and she continues to work on proving his innocence.
7 – Marie Cachet • Varg Vikernes was a Norwegian black metal
musician convincted of murdering a guitarist from another band.
He was also found to have burned down a few churches.
• But Marie Cachet didn't mind.
The French national married and had a daughter with him.
• She was even arrested with him in 2013 for her suspected involvement in hatching
a far-right wing terrorist plot.
6 – Anna Eriksson and Rebecca Sneed • The Menendez Brothers, Lyle and Erik,
were the subjects of one of the most famous trials in television history.
• The brothers murdered their parents via shotgun after years of abuse, and were sentenced
to life in prison without parole.
• But Lyle has had no trouble attracting women.
Anna Erikkson, a former model and salon receptionist, sent him letters, and eventually married him.
• That marriage was short-lived, though, when she found Lyle was also sending letters
to another woman.
That would be Rebecca Snead, whom he has remained married to since.
5 – Christine Kizuka • Angelo Buono Jr. was one of the “Hillside
Stranglers,” a pair of cousins who committed a series of kidnappings, rapes, and murders
on at least nine women.
• Despite the grisly details of the case, Christine Kizuka, a mother of three, found
herself drawn to him.
She was visiting her first husband... who was ALSO in prison.
• Not much is known about the circumstances, as she has avoided any media attention about
her relationship, but they remained married until his death.
4 – Doreen Lioy • Richard Ramirez's serial killer name makes
him also sound like one of the X-Men.
He was the “Night Stalker,” responsible for 13 murders and 11 sexual assaults.
• Like so many others, Ramirez's celebrity status drew him piles of love letters from
women who swore he was innocent.
• Doreen Lioy sent 75 letters over the course of 11 years, and finally married him in 1996.
• As far as we know, they remained married until his death in 2013.
But Ramirez stopped taking visitors of any kind after 2010.
3 - Donald Lee Laisure and James Whitehouse • Susan Atkins was better known as “Sexy
Sadie” within the Manson Family.
She was involved in eight of the killings orchestrated by Charles Manson.
• That earned her a bunch of notoriety, and the attention of Donald Lee Laisure.
Laisure, who preferred to spell his last name with a dollar sign, married Atkins, making
her his 35th wife.
• Yes, you read that correctly.
35th.
In a twist nobody saw coming, Laisure divorced Atkins about a year later to marry someone
else.
• Atkins also re-married, to James Whitehouse, a Harvard Law grad 15 years younger than her.
They remained married for 22 years until her death in 2009.
2 – Darcie Brudos • Darcie Brudos is a bit different from
the others on this list.
Her husband wasn't a killer when they met – he was just... unusual.
• Darcie found this out as a 17-year-old bride, as she was asked to do housework completely
naked except for a pair of high heels.
While her husband took pictures of her.
• That's definitely weird, but not enough to tip her off to murderous tendencies.
But then girls started disappearing from the neighborhood.
• And then a strange smell started coming from the garage she wasn't allowed to go into.
That garage contained Jerry's “trophies,” including the amputated left foot of his first
victim, and a pair of amputated breasts he used as paperweights.
• As the evidence piled up, poor Darcie never suspected a thing, even after he was
arrested.
1 – Veronica Compton and Shirlee Joyce Book • Kenneth Bianchi was the OTHER “Hillside
Strangler.”
And Veronica Compton wanted to make sure nobody knew it.
• Compton didn't just admire Bianchi.
She actually tried to strangle a woman in cold blood to make it look like the “Hillside
Strangler” was still on the loose after Bianchi and his cousin were imprisoned.
• But despite that reckless display of devotion, Bianchi didn't marry Compton.
He married his pen pal, Shirlee Joyce Book.
• Book, it seems, just had a thing for serial killers.
She tried to grab the attention of Ted Bundy first, before moving on
to Bianchi.