Married to a Monster: Stories Of Women Who Willingly Married Criminals

#1 Charles “Chucky” Mamou and Sandie Blanton

Sandie Blanton was a 48-year-old blonde Brit who married Charles “Chucky” Mamou in 2008. Chucky Mamou and Sandie Blanton crossed paths when Sandie visited a prison in Texas to scope out some hotties.

“We made that mistake of taking it a step further,” says Sandie. On their second meeting, he proposed and she accepted.

In the wedding photographs, Sandie wears a traditional gown, but there is no groom. The ceremony took place with a stand-in, Mamou’s father.

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The two were married, but the marriage didn’t last. Blanton got engaged to another death row inmate named Reginald Blanton. Unfortunately, Reginald was executed before the two could tie the knot.

#3 Phillip Carl Jablonski and Carol Spadoni

Carol Spadoni was literally sleeping with a devil — although in her mind he was her angel. Phillip Carl Jablonski was doing time in San Quentin for the murder of his baby mama. In 1978, she left him after his attempt to rape her mother.Phillip Carl Jablonski was serving a 12 years prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend when he put out an ad in the newspaper looking for a new woman to murder. Carol Spadoni answered his ad and the two were married in 1982.

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As his release on parole approached, Spadoni had a change of heart. Not long after his release, Jablonski murdered a college student. His next victims? Spadoni and her mother. Turns out she should’ve picked her angel more carefully.

#5 Ted Bundy and Carole Ann Boone

Ted Bundy is one of the most talked about American Serial killer, rapist, and necrophiliacs. He claimed over 30 female victims, between 1974-1978. He performed sexual acts on the women even long after their bodies decomposed.

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During his trial for murder, Bundy married Carole Ann Boone. Then managed to get pregnant at a time when conjugal visits were not allowed. In October 1982, Boone gave birth to a daughter.

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However, she divorced him before his execution and fled the state with their daughter. She changed her and her daughter’s last name. Something about Mrs. Bundy didn’t sound right.

#8 Richard Ramirez and Doreen Lioy

Richard Ramirez became known at the Night Stalker after a string of burglaries and rapes in the mid-1980s. Who could resist a man with the nickname “The Night Stalker”? He broke into California homes raping and torturing more than 25 women and murdering 13 within two years.

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His crime story has been the inspiration for a feature in American Horror Story: Hotel and the Lifetime movie The Night Stalker.

The courtship of Doreen Lioy and Ramirez began in 1985 after she saw him on TV after his arrest.

His crimes didn’t stop writer Doreen Lioy from sending him over 70 letters while in prison – and eventually tying the knot in 1996.

Lioy said, “He’s kind, he’s funny, he’s charming.” Lioy always claimed that upon his execution, she would commit suicide.

The couple separated before Ramirez’s death from cancer in 2013.

#10 Oscar Ray Bolin and Rosalie Martinez

Oscar Ray Bolin allegedly fell in love with a member of his defense team, Rosalie Martinez. Oscar Ray Bolin’s wedding vows were televised in 1996.

She even left her husband (who was also a respected lawyer) and gave up primary custody of her four children to marry a death row inmate.

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Bolin has sentenced two life sentences and eight death sentences for the murder of three women. He was executed by lethal injection in Florida State Prison.Their marriage lasted nearly 20 years but came to an end when Bolin was executed for his crimes.

#12 Angelo Buono Jr. and Christine Kizuka

Angelo Buono Jr. caught the attention of Christine Kizuka, who was visiting her first husband in prison. At the time, her husband was serving an 18-month sentence for assault of a deadly weapon and awaiting trail.

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The mother of three divorced her husband after his release and married Buono, a serial killer. They married in 1986 but he never spent one night alone with his wife. They stayed married until Buono died in prison in 2002 from a heart attack, perhaps from having too much love in his heart.

#14 Bobby Lee Harris and Dagmar Polzin

Dagmar Polzin felt the spark of love ignite in her heart when she saw Bobby Lee Harris’ face on an anti-death penalty ad. She was in Hamburg, Germany; he was in North Carolina, on death row for robbing and murdering his boss.

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Once he received a stay of execution in 2001, Polzin moved to the U.S. Later, Harris’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Polzin left Germany and moved to North Carolina to be with her American hunk who happens to have a 73 point IQ.

#16 Elain “Star” Burton and Charles Manson

If the man who personifies evil itself can find love, then everyone should stop complaining about their own dating lives, right?

Charles Manson, the 80-year-old mastermind behind one of the most notorious murder sprees of the 20th century, might be getting hitched.

Elain “Star” Burton discovered Charles Manson when she was 17. Burton began corresponding with Manson after a friend showed her some of his environmental writings, Rolling Stone reported in 2013.

She believes Manson is innocent. In 2014, she started to file papers for a marriage license. She was 25 and he was 80.

#17 Elain “Star” Burton and Charles Manson

Her lovestruck claims of his innocence were widely reported – until recently when allegations surfaced that she might have only wanted to use his corpse as a tourist attraction after he dies.