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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:37 AM
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I wonder why so many women are offering to marry scott peterson
and this phenomenon of women writing killers in prison with love letters and in some cases marrying and having children with them, what's up with that?

apparently scottie is getting dozens and dozens of offers of love and marriage, and the same thing happens to all famous killers, including richard ramirez the night stalker.

what would make a woman, some seemingly normal, engage in this bizarre behavior? any analysists out there?
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fertilizeonarbusto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:38 AM
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1. They'd rather be dead? n/t
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imenja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:39 AM
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2. I don't get it
They are lunatics. There is no rational explanation for that sort of pathology.
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:39 AM
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3. Vicarious celebrity?
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:29 AM
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10. Exactly. Vicarious notoriety, with very little chance of ever having
to conduct a normal marriage, with the attendant ups and downs. You get to be Mrs. Scott Peterson, without having to actually make a life with Scott Peterson.

Weird, isn't it?
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:41 AM
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4. Well, you always know where he is

and that he's not out with another woman
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:42 AM
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5. Because there are a lot of emotionally & mentally unstable women out there
as well as fellow psychopathic personality types like Scott Petersen...

And there are those that think "But he's soooo cute....how could someone with those "eyes" and "smile" be a murderer?"

And the weird part is that some of these women probably think that they can "save" him, even if he is guilty....

Ugh....
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blogbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:46 AM
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6. Birds of a Feather..
flock (and so forth) together..
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atommom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 08:50 AM
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7. Ted Bundy got plenty of love letters, too. I think these are
emotionally unstable women, living in a fantasy world, who find the notoriety of the killers exciting. They would be better served to make up wild stories of their own and go on the Springer show. :eyes:
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:02 AM
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8. They know Scott is one guy who'd never let them end up like Schiavo?
Evil, I know.... :mad:
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ugarte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:03 AM
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9. Because such men are dangerous, but also safe
since they're locked up for life. Some kind of vicarious thrill.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:31 AM
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11. In Some of Those Pics
he looked just like Ben Affleck. And Ben would never commit a gruesome murder. A lot of people do think he's innocent.

And as Oprah Winfrey said: "Where are all the good men? They're in prison."
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:35 AM
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12. Aren't there more important things
for us to worry about? Why are you helping the corporate media
distract us from the REAL problems confronting our society?
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:02 PM
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18. My my. Wake up a little cranky this morning?
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:37 AM
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13. Because maybe they think they can change him
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:58 AM
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14. Hasn't one of the Menendez brothers married since they were convicted?
Edited on Mon Mar-21-05 10:06 AM by rocknation
(Gets off shiftless lazy ass and does her own research)

Oh, they BOTH did!

Their lawyer thought she was being so slick by dressing them up as cuddly teen idols and putting their parents on trial for sexual abuse--I was SO glad when that jury hung!

:headbang:
rocknation
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 09:59 AM
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15. I knew that would happen.
It just goes to prove the stupidity of the human race.

(I'm not always so negative, but I'm having a bad morning!) :)
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 10:05 AM
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16. Right there with you.
Well, not on the predicting Peterson would get "fans," but today? This morning? One of my worst ever. I haven't felt this disillusioned since I found out about Bush's plans to take troops out of the DMZ. At this point, I would belive anything is possible when it comes to stupid, diseased, deranged, horrible human beings--no matter how negative.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:53 PM
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17. My first college roomate told me she had to prison pen pal
until his letters started getting "weird," which culminated in his request to mail him a lock of her pubic hair. I told that she blew a golden opportunity--the hair on her head just happened to go down past her waist!

:headbang:
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:04 PM
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19. some women love to self-destruct
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:09 PM
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20. I would go as far as to say some women are drawn to assholes
But that couldn't be the case.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=2879780&mesg_id=2879780
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madison2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:10 PM
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21. only if they're "nice" assholes!
and good looking too
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jswordy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:15 PM
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22. Let me tell ya why, and it is a sad thing, too.
It is because some women have a very powerful urge to fix someone else. They think that by simply being around them, the murderer or whatever will be transformed. They will form him into their mentally idealized version of him, by transforming him through being for him his ideal woman.

The country song "Stand By Your Man" was written from this perspective. It is a perversion of a woman's natural instinct to empathize, and can become quite pathological.

These women need counseling, and that ain't no bullshit. They frequently set themselves up in ruinous relationships, and are often battered or killed as a result.
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:22 PM
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23. Maybe he hasn't been getting any lately...
They know he can't cheat on them...
His lineage may be dead if they don't procure an offspring...
his sister is writing a book to catch in on it.
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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:23 PM
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24. cuz he's a hunk and good catch ?
yeah, got a bridge here to sell you.
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Moms Baby Democrat Donating Member (182 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:37 PM
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25. Misery loves company
Sad but true
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Technowitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:38 PM
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26. "Bad boy syndrome"
Seriously.
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animuscitizen Donating Member (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 01:51 PM
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27. You are right
Some women love the hard-to-get, antisocial guys. For some, bad boys are sexy, powerful, and exciting. These women might view the opposite type, the "stable" person, as "boring."

Of course, courting the prison inmate is an extreme example of this "bad boy syndrome." Some ladies, such as myself, have dabbled with a few bad boys--but would never consider those in the murderer/death row genre.
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