what is wrong with these females??~or~murderers need love too

[lady cop]

Scott Peterson Attracting Female FansWednesday, March 23, 2005
By Chris Erikson



NEW YORK — Scott Peterson has been called many things since he was convicted of murdering his wife and unborn child last week.

A liar. A murderer. A sociopath.

A total babe?

Admirers started coming out of the woodwork — and posting love notes on various Web blogs — even before the 32-year-old killer landed on San Quentin Prison's death row last week.

A prison spokesman said San Quentin received dozens of calls, letters and even two marriage proposals for Peterson.

Surprised? You shouldn't be.

The average woman probably wouldn't list depraved indifference to life and a death-row address in her "turn-ons" column, but there's a strange and dogged group of women who do, guaranteeing the country's most notorious killers a supply of eager pen-pal paramours.

"It's so classic," said Cliff Linedecker, a true-crime writer who wrote the book "Prison Groupies" about women smitten by killers. "The more notorious they are, the more groupies they tend to attract."

Peterson promises to bring women out in force, said Linedecker, because of his clean-cut good looks and the nature of his crime.

"They especially like wife-killers," he said. "It adds to the thrill."

Richard Ramirez , a Satanist on death row for a shockingly brutal string of rapes, murders and mutilations, "had women falling all over him," even fighting one another for his attentions, said Linedecker. (In 1996, Ramirez married a 41-year-old magazine editor.)

Even John Wayne Gacy), "a very unattractive guy — and a homosexual, too, which you'd think might be a deterrent — had all kinds of women after him," Linedecker said.

"Preppie Killer" Robert Chambers had to be transferred to another prison because so many aspiring girlfriends were smuggling him contraband — and when he was released last year, one was waiting for him.

Tracy Lamourie of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which runs a where death-row prisoners solicit pen pals, said many who write are women looking for relationships.

Numerous love affairs — and two actual weddings have resulted, said Lamourie, who adds that her group has received a number of e-mails from women who want to contact Peterson.

Why would any woman go out of her way to form a relationship with a convicted killer?

"It's very complicated," said Sheila Isenberg, author of the book "Women Who Love Men Who Kill."

One reason is the notoriety. Killers may be famous for doing stomach-turning things, but they're famous nonetheless.

"If you want to get together with a celebrity, Brad Pitt won't answer your letters, but Scott Peterson might well," she said.

Another appeal of a death-row inmate is that he has a lot of time on his hands to write poetry and love letters.

Plus, Isenberg says, violence holds an allure in our society — "and who's the most macho man of all? Well, he's the one who did the murder. And if it's a particularly heinous murder, then he's even more macho. And people are attracted to that in some strange way."

Other killer groupies have savior complexes. Linedecker relates the tale of a young woman from a Christian church group — "a real innocent" — who started a relationship with a convicted killer in California. When they met at a motel after his release, he raped her and cut her legs off!

But the most important factor, Isenberg concluded, is that these women are almost all victims of abuse, and they're attracted to the control offered by a relationship with a man behind bars.

"It's basically a safe relationship, and she has control of it," Isenberg said. And a death-row inmate "has very limited interaction with the world, so she's going to be even more in control."

Karen Richey — a 41-year-old grandmother from Glasgow, Scotland, who has been in love with a man on Ohio's death row since 1988 — says not every romance with an inmate is the result of a jailbird fetish.

"I thought I could be a friend to someone who I was sure was going to die," she told The Post from Glasgow. "We wrote back and forth. Little by little, we fell in love."

Her fiance, Kenny Richey (whose name she's taken), now stands to be a free man after the recent overturning of his arson conviction for a blaze that killed a 2-year-old girl in 1986.

Unlike Peterson, Karen's man is no death-row Don Juan.

"His teeth are falling out. He's got diabetes. I can't explain it. I know you'll probably hear from some of these women who say, 'My guy is innocent because he's so gorgeous and he told me he didn't do it.' I'm not one of those people. I checked him out. And I was right."

I heard one of my friends asking someone else if they knew how to get the number to SQ for Peterson's address so she could be his "pen pal" She is nuts! he is cute but he is also a murderer... A WIFE & BABY murderer! No man in his right mind would do something like that. I told her she was crazy and everything but she didn't listen.. She is even married. Her husband don't know about all this. She was all excited when she got on the computer and found the number and they gave her his address!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY would they give it out to a total stranger.... I even read on the internet that some 18 year old girl called in to SQ like 8 hours after he arrived & asked if he was able to be wed! She is stupid.. I am sorry but that is how i feel. Do these people not get that he is a murderer!

[CARLA]

LADYCOP,

These ladies just don't get it... They are just as strange and the men they are admiring on DEATH ROW.. Just a twist, strange and totally bizarre behavior..

[BabyRider]

Oh gee, what a shock...most of these women are victims of abuse. Well stop the world, I wanna get off. I have zero patience or tolerance for stupid, helpless losers like these "women". I use that term VERY loosely, because to me they are nothing but brainless sheep. I cannot and will never understand this. They all give even PASSINGLY intelligent women a bad name. And this "He is 'cute'" garbage??? Where the **** does that come from? The man is a psycho baby-killing freak and liar, I look at him and I see dog leavings, not "cute." Friggin' maggot. I'd give an arm or 5 years of my life to watch them stick the needle in his arm.
(oops...did I say that out loud....?)

[Der Wulf]

Methinks y'all miss the point. Lotsa gals like to flirt with danger, they end up in an abusive relationship with a "bad boy" who ultimately ruins their life. This is the thinking womans version, --an officially certified bad boy who can't hurt them physically, they can associate with scum, and glory in the sympathy over their plight. All with the comfort and convience of their own pre caged bad boy,--by god he won't be running out on her

[David813]

Bizarre. I remember back in the late 80's or early 90's when Madonna was at an LA jail bailing out Sean Penn for whatever he did that week that she was entranced by Richard Ramirez, the brutal Zodiac Killer. Reportedly she teased a corrections officer about paying to have some "private time" with him. Truly sickening. Imagine how a victim's family would feel.

[lady cop]

does anyone recall danny rolling, who is long overdue on florida death row? the gainesville ripper, butchered 5 college kids. beheaded one girl. well he had this butt-ugly slut camp follower named sondra london who followed him to court and visited him, he even sang to her in open court, it was nauseating. turns out she wanted the rights to a book about him, but she was all over the media promoting his "art" and proclaiming herself his "fiance". that is one female i would gladly beat the living hell out of, she caused so much PAIN to the parents of those poor mutilated kids. you can probably find this human dung beetle on the web somewhere.

[Lon]

I don't get it. Remember the two brothers that killed their parents a few years ago (cant remember their names). The oldest one carried on a correspondence with some prettty attrative lady and they got married while he is in the can. Guys in the pokey seem to turn some gals on.

Melendez brothers?????

[lady cop]

Originally Posted by Lon

I don't get it. Remember the two brothers that killed their parents a few years ago (cant remember their names). The oldest one carried on a correspondence with some prettty attractive lady and they got married while he is in the can. Guys in the pokey seem to turn some gals on.

that was the menendez brothers, blew away mommy and daddy with shotguns (very messy) and spent about a mil $$$ in the weeks before they were charged. then they whined they were indigent orphans.

[anastrophe]

Originally Posted by lady cop

"It's very complicated," said Sheila Isenberg, author of the book "Women Who Love Men Who Kill."

my next book: "women who love men who kill, and the women who write about them".