Pages

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Prison Weddings – Female Serial Killers


1929 – “Brazilian Black Widow” – Fernando Noronha Island, Brazil

Imprisoned on an island penal colony, the unnamed Brazilian woman, murdered two husbands in a brutal manner. In prison she remarried and one day, annoyed with her husband’s long working hours as a fisherman, she “tied him to his bed, and then poured boiling water on him a little at a time and beginning with his feet, until he passed out.”

1946 – Bertha Gossett Hill – Rome, Georgia, USA

Convicted of murder of her husband, Leroy Hill, in 1946, with two additional alleged murders under investigation, Bertha Gossett Hill, 29, under life sentence, was married to Wiley Gravitt, 21-year-old construction worker, in the Floyd County Jail office May 3, 1947. She was released on technical grounds following a third trial on appeal in 1960.

1969 – Susan Atkins – Los Angeles, California, USA

“Atkins married twice while in prison. Her first marriage was to Donald Lee Laisure on September 2, 1981. Atkins became the mercurial Laisure's 35th wife, but the two divorced after he sought to marry yet again. She married a second time, in 1987, to a man fifteen years her junior, James W. Whitehouse, a graduate of Harvard Law School who represented Atkins at her 2000 and 2005 parole hearings. He maintained a website dedicated to her legal representation.” [Wikipedia]

1986 – Idoia López Riaño (Idoia Lopez Riano) – Guipúzcoa, Spain

2 marriages while in prison.

2009 – Kanae Kijima – Tokyo, Japan

After conviction and sentence of death, Kanae Kijima has married three times: on Mar. 12, 2015, in Jul. 2017, and in Jan. 2018

2011 – Goidsargi Estibaliz “Esti” Carranza – Vienna, Austria

Double back widow.

2013 – Joanna Dennehy – Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England

Petitioned for permission to marry her lesbian girlfriend in prison.

No comments:

Post a Comment