Random People Who Married Serial Killers After They Were Caught (12 items)

(#3) Doreen Lioy

Richard Ramirez was the infamous "Night Stalker" serial killer and rapist, who terrorized the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas from 1984 to 1985. Ramirez received hundreds of letters from women in prison, including more than 75 letters from Doreen Lioy, a former magazine editor.

Ramirez proposed to Lioy in 1988, and the two married eight years later, in 1996. They wed in San Quentin Prison. Lioy insists that her husband is innocent: "He's kind, he's funny, he's charming [...] I think he's really a great person. He's my best friend; he's my buddy." They remained wed until Ramirez passed in 2013 while on death row.
(#5) James Whitehouse Married Susan Atkins

Susan Atkins is another infamous member of the Manson Family. She was convicted for eight of the nine "Helter Skelter" murders committed by the group. Atkins would go on to marry twice while imprisoned. First, she married Donald Lee Laisure in 1981 - after Laisure had previously been married 35 times. Atkins had the marriage annulled after learning Laisure planned to marry yet another woman.

Then, in 1987, Atkins married James Whitehouse, a man 15 years her junior. He was a Harvard Law graduate - who actually represented Atkins during parole hearings. Their marriage continued until her passing in 2009.
(#4) Carole Anne Boone

Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was infamous for taking the lives of more than 30 women between 1974 and 1978. He was also known for being extremely handsome and charming. Perhaps that's why in 1980, a former coworker of Bundy's, Carole Ann Boone, married him after he famously proposed to her in court.

In fact, Bundy married her right then and there, using a bizarre loophole in Florida law stating that just a declaration of marriage in the presence of a judge constitutes a legal marriage. In 1982, Boone gave birth to Bundy's alleged daughter, even though conjugal visits weren't allowed in his Florida prison. Bundy was executed in 1989, but his marriage dissolved in 1986 at Boone's request.
(#10) Anna Eriksson Married Lyle Menendez

Lyle Menendez - who with his younger brother, Erik, took their parents' lives in 1989 - also got married while incarcerated, twice. Mendendez married prison pen-pal and former model Anna Eriksson on July 2, 1996. The two were subsequently divorced on April 1, 2001, after Eriksson discovered that Menendez was "cheating" via corresponding with another woman.

Two years later, Menendez remarried, this time to his long-time friend Rebecca Sneed, at a ceremony in the maximum security visiting area of Mule Creek State Prison. They remain married as of 2018, although Menendez is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
(#9) Christine Kizuka Married Angelo Buono

One half of the infamous "Hillside Stranglers," who claimed the lives of 10 women in the late 1970s, is Angelo Buono, Jr. In 1986, Buono married Christine Kizuka, a California State Employment Development Department supervisor. Kizuka met Buono in prison while she was visiting her first husband, who spent a short stint in the cell next to Buono's.

The was couple denied conjugal visits based on the severity of Buono's crimes. They remained married until he passed in 2002 from a heart attack.
(#11) Shirlee Joyce Book Married Kenneth Bianchi

Kenneth Bianchi, who along with Angelo Buono Jr., is known as one of the "Hillside Stranglers." In 1979, Bianchi was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. A decade later, in 1989, Bianchi married his pen-pal Shirlee Joyce Book. The couple kept in touch through phone calls, and they reportedly met for the first time just prior to the prison chapel ceremony.

Book allegedly tried to pursue Ted Bundy before contacting Bianchi. As of 2018, Bianchi and Book are still married.