"Killer Eyes"

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1. Carole Boone married Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer of girls and young women, in 1980. After having received a death sentence for murdering two sorority girls, and injuring a third, he was being tried for the murder of a 12-year old girl in Florida when they tied the wedding knot. He would later confess to killing 28 women, but some experts believe it could have been more than a 100. They had one child in 1982. She later came to see his guilt, moved away, and divorced him. Bundy was executed for his crimes in 1989.
2. Christine Kizuka, a mother of three and supervisor at the Los Angeles office of the State Employment Development Department, married Angelo Buono, Jr. in 1986 while he was behind bars serving a life sentence. Buono was convicted in 1983 of the murder of nine women in Los Angeles, aged 12-28, during a four-month period from 1977 to 1978. He, together with his cousin Kenneth Bianchi, were the infamous "Hillside Stranglers".
3. Sondra London, known to some as the queen of the serial killer groupies, engaged to Danny Rolling in 1993. He was the infamous "Gainesville Ripper" who pled guilty to killing five young students in Gainesville, Florida. Together they wrote a book about his crimes.
4. Doreen Lioy, a freelance magazine editor with a bachelor's degree in English and an I.Q. of 152--married Richard Ramirez in 1996. He was the "Night Stalker" convicted of 13 killings in California.

It was with this strange love phenomenon in mind that I wrote "Killer Eyes".

SEE ALSO: www.crimelibrary.com and "Passion and the Prisoner: What do women see in men behind bars?" by Daphne Merkin, The New York Times Magazine, 8.28.05.