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

$Kristin Joan Svege Married Tex Watson on Random People Who Married Serial Killers After They Were Caught$

(#7) Kristin Joan Svege Married Tex Watson

Tex Watson was a member of the Manson Family and was convicted in the death of actress Sharon Tate. After converting to Christianity and publishing the 1978 book Will You Die For Me?, Watson married Kristin Joan Svege in 1979.

Together through conjugal visits, they had four children. The couple divorced in 2003 after being married for 24 years, though the two reportedly remain friends.
(#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.
(#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.
(#6) Afton Elaine Burton Planned to Marry Charles Manson

Charles Manson was the leader of the Manson Family, a group of young people who infamously took the lives of nine people in Los Angeles. The deaths occurred over the course of five weeks, during the summer of 1969, though Manson was never convicted of killing anyone personally.

Manson reportedly started corresponding with Afton Elaine "Star" Buron when she was 17. The notorious cult leader intended to marry Buron, who was 53 years his junior, but their wedding was called off after it was discovered that Burton was attempting to make money from Manson by allegedly planning to display his corpse in LA once he had passed.
(#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.
(#2) Rosalie Martinez Married Oscar Bolin

Truck driver and former carnival worker Oscar Bolin, known as "Needles" on the road, was convicted in the deaths of three women in Florida. He was famously married to Rosalie Martinez, who was a member of his own legal defense team, while he was on death row in 1996.

Martinez left her husband, also a lawyer, to marry Bolin. Martinez said she made the dramatic move in part to demonstrate Bolin's innocence, which she never stopped believing in. The two remained married until his 2016 execution in Florida.