Discovering love in lockup: Nancy Grace investigates why ladies marry murderers

Love has no bounds – even if you happen to’re a convicted killer behind bars.

From felon to fiancé to endlessly, Fox Nation host and former prosecutor Nancy Grace investigates why ladies throughout America select to search out love with criminals in a brand new particular, “Marrying a Assassin.”

“Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, the Menendez brothers, Chris Watts,” Grace lists at first of the episode. “All of them discovered love in lockup.”

Sheila Isenberg, creator of “Ladies Who Love Males Who Kill,”says most ladies imagine considered one of 4 issues: that their husband is really harmless, there have been mitigating circumstances, he’s modified, or faith saved him.

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“Ladies don’t go in to a jail and fall in love with a assassin as a result of they wish to save him. They wish to save themselves,” Isenberg tells Grace. “And so they don’t love unhealthy boys as a result of they don’t suppose he’s a nasty boy.”

Cathy Gonzales’ husband, Jeffrey “Tattoo” Gonzales, was discovered responsible of murdering his former boss. However Cathy calls him her “lighthouse” and believes he’s her soulmate.

“Have you ever ever discovered someone that you just type of really feel like type of saved you whenever you misplaced your self?” Cathy asks. “He guided me again to the place I actually wanted to be.”

A mom of two younger ladies, Cathy firnly believes Jeffrey is just not responsible.

“Sure, he has a homicide cost. However under no circumstances do I really feel that that ought to have truly been the cost he took,” Cathy says.

She provides that her kids settle for Jeffrey as their father, writing letters backwards and forwards and typically visiting him behind bars.

“My oldest daughter is extraordinarily, extraordinarily receptive. She calls him Dad,” Cathy explains. “My child, she’s a little bit bit totally different. She has gone to go to. I do know, by her actions and the best way she talks to him, that she loves him.”

Others’ acceptance, Isenberg says, is a coping mechanism of girls who love murderers in jail.

“I believed to myself, what planet are you residing on that this 12 or 13-year-old lady love and respects the person in jail for homicide that you just’re planning to marry?” Isenberg says within the Fox Nation particular. “I don’t purchase it. I feel it’s a part of the delusion.”

One other girl named Crystal Tiedjen fell head over heels for the person who murdered her brother.

“My opinion why Johnny ended up in jail is as a result of he’s an airhead at occasions. There was medication in the home. And he ended up turning himself in. They didn’t come after him. He turned himself in,” Crystal notes.

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“It’s the identical factor,” Isenberg reiterates. “She wanted to forgive him in order that she might fall in love with him, in order that he might match the profile of the person who was secure for her.”

To search out out whether or not these lockup love tales finish fortunately ever after, “Marrying a Assassin: A Nancy Grace Investigation” is streaming now solely on Fox Nation.

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