Serial killers married in prison

Erik Menendez helped murder his parents with the help of his brother Lyle. He married Tammi Ruth Saccoman over the telephone. Their wedding cake was a Twinkie. New Zealander Scott Watson killed two people while on his boat in In , he married Coral Branch. They separated 3 years later. Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker. Richard Ramirez broke into homes to rape and murder 13 women in He was sentenced to death. In , Doreen Lioy wrote over 70 letters to Ramirez.

They were married in They separated before he died of cancer and by then, he was already engaged to somebody else. Susan Atkins. Charles "Tex" Watson. He became a born-again Christian in and married Kristian Joan Svege. They had 4 children while he was in prison. They divorced in Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was responsible for the deaths of at least 30 women. While in prison, Bundy married Carole Ann Boone, who was a former co-worker.

She gave birth to Bundy's child, despite the fact that no conjugal visits were allowed in his prison. Lyle Menendez. Lyle Menendez and his brother Erik murdered their parents for their money. While in prison, he married Anna Eriksson who was his penpal for many years. Some victims were also strangled to death with a rope. Many victims were slashed and mutilated with a knife on their genitalia and stomach. Sutcliffe was finally arrested on January 2nd, I killed all those women.

On November 13th, , Sutcliffe died at the age of Henry Howard Holmes now better known as Dr. Holmes was one of the first known serial killers in America. In , opened a hotel in Chicago which he had built specifically with murder on his mind. His evil crimes caught up with him eventually and he confessed to 27 murders, of which only nine were confirmed, but his actual body count could be up to Alongside being a sinister serial killer he was also a bigamist.

He married his first wife, Clara A. Lovering, in ; his second wife, Myrta Z. Belknap, in , and his third wife, Georgiana Yoke, in Yet, overlapping marriages were not the worst of his deeds as his fourth mistress, Julia Smythe, soon found out.

Smythe had told Holmes that she had fallen pregnant and demanded marriage. Holmes suggested performing an abortion and she agreed for this to take place on Christmas Eve. Holmes administered Smythe a chloroform overdose which killed her. When questioned on her disappearance Holmes just said she was away attending a family wedding.

On May 7th, , Holmes was hanged at Moyamensing Prison. Both the wives he was married to at the time, Myrta Belknap and Georgiana Yoke, witnessed the death — most likely thankful they had a very lucky escape.

The former police officer turned serial killer would use axes, knives, and screwdrivers to murder 22 women in his home town of Angarsk, Russia. The body of one of his victims was found decapitated and with the heart carved out of her chest. He also posed the bodies in disturbing positions for law enforcement to find. Many of the crimes took place when Popkov was still a police officer himself. Popkov was sentenced to life imprisonment. Despite all the damning evidence, his wife, Elena Popkov, refused to believe her husband was a serial killer.

If I suspected something wrong, of course, I would divorce him. If he were to be released right now, I would not say a word and we would continue to live together. He did not cause me any harm for all these years. I felt safe with him. Serial killer John Wayne Gacy was a twisted predator who brutally tortured, raped, and strangled young men and boys from until his arrest in He was convicted of 33 sex-related murders and given the death penalty.

Like many psychopaths, Gacy was capable of the most heinous crimes, yet he managed to evade capture for so long as he hid behind a mask of normalcy. In July , he married Carole Hoff, a divorcee with two young daughters.

She also discovered gay pornography and finally she asked him for a divorce. The couple continued to live at the house until February when the divorce was finalized and Carole moved out. She was completely unaware that buried in the crawl space of her home were victims: year-old Timothy Jack McCoy, year-old John Butkovich and a third victim who was never identified.

Whenever Carole had complained of the smell, Gacy told her this was rodents that had died underneath the house. In , he married Feodosia Odnacheva after they were introduced through his younger sister. According to Chikatilo, although he found Feodosia very attractive, the marriage was forced upon them by their families and their sex life was non-existent.

Chikatilo was unable to maintain an erection for his wife and they conceived two children together through other means of insemination. That was when he twice abducted two boys at a time, taking them to remote locations and strangling them.

Dion had made plans to kill three others but found himself behind bars again — this time, charged with four murders that would potentially result in a death sentence. He was still being held in the Archambault federal prison in late , though — and that's when The Windsor Star reported that he had been killed by another inmate named Normand Champagne.

Champagne — who was convinced that he was the reincarnated Lawrence of Arabia — was acquitted after entering an insanity defense. Some stories dance along the line between historical fact, and it's entirely possible that's the case with Enriqueta Marti.

Let's start with the story that ultimately got her killed. The popularly told tale via Vice says that Marti was one of the countless people who moved to Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century.

Hoping for a better life, she found little more than sickness, poverty, and misery instead. Instead of just making ends meet with whatever odd jobs she could find, it's said that she started killing — mostly children — in order to drain their blood for the tonics and medicines she sold.

Law enforcement finally caught up to her in , and not long after she was arrested, she died in prison. The official reports say that she succumbed to uterine cancer, but other sources via Psychology Today say she died not from that cruelest disease but at the hands of her cellmates, who were likely paid off by wealthy men and women who didn't want their names mentioned at a trial. In preparation for a film about her life and death, director Lluis Danes found substantial research that suggested she wasn't actually a serial killer, but a woman trying to make her way in the world selling potions and cure-alls not involving blood sacrifices at all.

Instead, Danes argues via Inside Media that she was a scapegoat caught in a power struggle between the police and the media. Did it get her killed? In , Fox News reported that Gaffney, South Carolina was struggling with the terror of knowing they had a serial killer in their midst — and strangely, it was the second time in recent memory that it had happened.

The first time was in , when 10 women were killed by the so-called Gaffney Strangler. Things kicked off, says the Spartanburg Herald-Journal , when the editor of a local paper received an anonymous call, directing law enforcement to the remains of two missing girls.

The community was on high alert, and after two vigilant locals recalled seeing Lee Roy Martin near the location where another body was discovered, he was arrested. Martin escaped the death penalty, however, because of some overzealous investigations that took place before he was set up with an attorney.

He was still found guilty and given four life terms, but he only spent a few years behind bars. He was killed in , and according to The Gaffney Ledger , he died almost instantly when he was stabbed multiple times by fellow inmate Kenneth Marshall Rumsey. Rumsey was, in turn, charged and convicted of that murder, but served only five more years in prison before committing suicide.

The victims of the so-called I-5 Strangler were connected by a few things: They were killed in Northern California between and , they showed signs of sexual assault, they were strangled, and their clothes had been sliced into ribbons. According to the Los Angeles Times , Roger Kibbe was on an early shortlist of suspects, but by the time he was arrested after trying to abduct another woman, six were dead.

His original trial was only able to definitively link him to a single murder, and it wasn't until that DNA evidence had advanced to the point where law enforcement could tie him to more. Kibbe dodged the death penalty by promising to reveal the location of his final victim, who wasn't discovered and laid to rest until eleven years later. Kibbe sat in jail for another decade before The Mercury News reported — in — that he had been killed by his cellmate, Jason Budrow. Budrow's confession was actually written to that very same newspaper , and he explained in a 5-page letter that he had planned on killing the then year-old Kibbe from the very first day they had been put in the same cell together, and he believed he had done it for what he believed to be noble reasons.

Calling himself a devotee of the "dark arts," he wrote that he believed that by killing Kibbe, he was freeing the souls of his victims from being tethered to the man who had killed them. As far as serial killers go, History says that Charles Schmid was the whole package. A pathological liar with a Napoleon complex, Schmid started killing teenage girls simply because he wanted to — and thanks to help from two friends, he was right about being able to get away with his first murder, that of year-old Alleen Rowe.

Then, he just kept right on killing. The next to die were a pair of sisters, and bizarrely, part of Schmid's deal was that he liked to brag — so, he recruited help to bury them. The body count soon rose again, and it was finally the friend who had helped him bury the sisters in the Arizona desert who turned him in.

His day-long death started on March 20, , when he was stabbed repeatedly by two other inmates who reportedly thought he was doing the sort of in-house snitching that was bound to get someone killed. Now missing an eye and suffering from punctured intestines and lungs, University of Arizona English professor Richard Shelton — who Schmid had reached out to in hopes of getting a poetry critique — waited at his side as he died, later recalling, "It was pretty grizzly because they kept coming and asking if they could remove certain things, like an eye or a kidney.

And they let him go, piece by piece.