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Post by Graveyardbride on May 24, 2023 4:38:13 GMT -5
Prison Groupies Pour Money into Killers’ AccountsAccording to Maximo Altez, Joran van der Sloot’s chatty Peruvian attorney, his client receives an average of $400 per month from admirers in various countries. “All his fans from all over the world sent letters to Joran. I rented him a P.O. Box to receive them. Some letters brought 10 euros, 20 euros, 5 dollars. They were girls who wrote and sent him letters with money, and he answered them all,” the lawyer bragged.
Van der Sloot, prime suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, is awaiting extradition to the United States on charges of extortion and fraud. He is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Peru for the murder of Stephany Flores, a 21-year-old student he killed in a Lima hotel room in 2010.
Other convicted criminals, as well as those who have been charged with violent crimes, also are courted by individuals, primarily women, who add money to their commissary accounts on a regular basis. Inmates purchase snacks, sodas, toiletries, writing materials, clothing and other items from the prison commissary.
Bryan Kohberger, for example, who has been charged with the November 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, is receiving love letters – and “gifts” – from females throughout the country. Brittney J. Hislope, a Kentucky woman, whose Facebook page indicates she is a single mother, has sent the suspect, whom she calls her “divine masculine counterpart,” dozens of love letters. “There are some men that if they experienced higher intimacy levels and sexual fulfillment would never go and want to find someone else to be with in those ways,” she wrote on Facebook, “and with that said, when I’m fixated on a particular person such as my love interest who I feel is more than that to me, I don’t want other men.”
While van der Sloot and Kohberger are fairly young, 35 and 28, respectively, and could be described as attractive, older killers, including Dennis Rader, age 78, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) murderer in Kansas serving a life sentence for taking the lives of multiple victims, also has his fans. According to Kerri Rawson, Rader’s daughter, her father has “been getting fan mail since the first day he went to jail. And he’s got quite a large bank account. I mean, it’s probably a couple thousand dollars last I knew.”
She acknowledged some women are “obsessed” with hardened criminals. “He gets these women all caught up in his life,” she explained. “And when you’re in prison, it’s not like you can approach somebody. They have to approach you. So these women are willingly coming to my father, you know, visiting him.”
Scott Peterson, convicted of the murder of his 8-months-pregnant wife, who disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002, began attracting the attention of groupies as soon as he was arrested and booked into the local jail. And after he was convicted and sentenced to death, The San Francisco Gate reported Peterson had been on San Quentin’s Death Row less than one hour when he received a phone call from a woman wanting to marry him.
Following the 2018 St. Valentine’s Day shooting in Florida, hundreds of girls, and some older women, in both the U.S. and Europe, wrote love letters to Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old killer. Money from his admirers poured into his commissary account until October 2022, when he was sentenced to life in prison and the Honorable Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced any and all monies in his commissary account would go to pay restitution for his crimes. (See “Nikolas Cruz - Parkland Shooter Gets Life.”)
Even Alex Murdaugh, the 54-year-old former attorney who was recently convicted of murdering his wife and son in South Carolina, receives numerous letters from well-wishers who add money to his commissary account.
Sources: Adam Sabes and Armando Regil Velasco, Fox News, May 24, 2023; Ross Ibbetson, The Daily Mail, April 28, 2023; State of Florida v. Nikolas Jacob Cruz, Case No. 18-001958-CF-10A; Mike McPadden, InvestigationDiscoveryCrimefeed, April 6, 2018, and The San Francisco Gate.
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Post by catherine on May 24, 2023 6:52:07 GMT -5
Prison groupies give women in general a bad name. Not only do these fools communicate with and visit men who will spend the rest of their lives behind bars, they're also sending them money. The one in Kentucky who calls Kohberger her "divine masculine counterpart," claims she's a single mother, so she's taking money she should be spending on her kid and sending it to a frigging murderer! The kid's father -- assuming she knows his identity -- should file for custody of the child because such a woman has misplaced priorities and isn't fit to raise a dog.
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Post by kitty on May 24, 2023 7:41:50 GMT -5
What does that even mean?
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 24, 2023 14:03:32 GMT -5
Psychiatrist Contacts Kohberger’s ‘Groupie’Psychiatrist Carole Lieberman, author of Bad Boys: Why We Love Them, How to Live with Them and When to Leave Them, was so concerned about Brittney J. Hislope (above), who claims to be madly in love with Bryan Kohberger, that she wrote her a letter.
Just five days after Bryan Kohberger was arrested and charged with the November 2022 Idaho murders, Hislope began gushing about him on social media. In one Instagram post, she referenced a lovemaking scene from The Lost Boys, a 1987 vampire movie, saying she wanted this sort of relationship with Kohberger. “Although it’s not very explicit, I’d want to be with my love interest Bryan in those ways,” she wrote. (Officials at the Latah County Jail, where the suspect is currently held, said Hislope has sent numerous letters and photographs of herself to Kohberger.)
In another post, Hislope admitted people might not understand her “love” for Kohberger because they lacked knowledge about “certain true love connections, such as twin flames, soulmates, and divine counterparts.” She also posted she and Kohberger would be compatible because both are Scorpios.
It was this behavior that prompted Dr. Lieberman to contact Hislope and advise she seek professional help. “Have you thought about the fact that he may have other women writing to him, too? Other women, who have fallen in love with him, like you? You might never know about this until you’ve wasted years pining for him,” Lieberman wrote.
In an attempt to explain prison groupies, Lieberman said, “These women aren’t bothered by the monstrousness of their [the offender’s] crimes. In fact, the more sadistic, the better, because this makes the woman feel more powerful for being known as the one who tamed them.”
Prior to her infatuation with Kohberger, Hislope, a 35-year-old Kentucky woman with a 16-year-old son, declared herself madly in love with convicted murderer Cody Tyler Hall. In July 2017, Hall, who was 28 at the time, went to a home in Bronston, Kentucky, armed with a machete and handgun, and assaulted a man and two women. Fifty-year-old Lilburn Scott Holbrook was killed in the attack. Two years later, Hall pled guilty to murder, two counts of first-degree assault, one count of third-degree assault on a police officer and one count of first-degree wanton endangerment, in exchange for a 23-year sentence.
Hislope was so enamored with Hall that Donna Hubbard, Hall’s mother, remarked, “My son was convicted of murder, something I’m not proud of, but it is what it is. She became obsessed with him. Showed up at his court hearings, went to the jail, put money on his books. He was gonna play her along for commissary – again, not proud – but she showed up for a visit one day and told him she loved him more than she loved her own child.”Sources: Rosie Jempson, The Express, March 2, 2023; Nirali Sheth, SK, February 5, 2023; Janie Slaven, The Commonwealth Journal, June 7, 2019; Andrea Walker, WKYT, June 6, 2019, and Facebook.
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Post by snowfairy on May 25, 2023 3:16:29 GMT -5
I looked up Brittney J. Hislope and either that's an old photo or it's been Photoshopped because she looks a lot older than that now. She also has dark hair in some of the photos I saw.
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Post by pat on May 25, 2023 7:41:07 GMT -5
This woman is completely delusional. Because of her past behavior, it seems she was determined to find a man behind bars, but why she would want to latch on to Kohberger is beyond my understanding.
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Post by jane on May 25, 2023 10:54:46 GMT -5
This woman is completely delusional. Because of her past behavior, it seems she was determined to find a man behind bars, but why she would want to latch on to Kohberger is beyond my understanding. I’ve heard people say that women who write to and try to marry convicted murderers are like those women who own dangerous dogs like pit bulls. Their lives are so empty they think people will think they’re “special” if they can “tame” a dangerous animal, like a pit bull, or a dangerous man, like a convicted killer, and this Dr. Lieberman seems to agree:
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Post by serena on May 26, 2023 4:27:15 GMT -5
I'm sure men in prison become very good at manipulating women and convince every woman she's the only one. I've read about women who got involved with prisoners and when the man was released and they got together, he ended up killing her.
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Post by pat on May 27, 2023 6:07:52 GMT -5
I’ve heard people say that women who write to and try to marry convicted murderers are like those women who own dangerous dogs like pit bulls. Their lives are so empty they think people will think they’re “special” if they can “tame” a dangerous animal, like a pit bull, or a dangerous man, like a convicted killer, and this Dr. Lieberman seems to agree: |
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Post by snowfairy on Jun 4, 2023 20:28:15 GMT -5
Some prison groupies recognize the error of their ways as they get older. Look at Carole Boone. When she first got to Gainesville, she wanted everyone to know she was Ted Bundy's wife, but before she left Florida in May of 1988, I think it was, she didn't want anyone to know she was associated with him. I know the way he was carrying on with Diana Weiner had to have been embarrassing for her, but I think she was already beginning to see the futility of her situation and that she was wasting her life and that of her daughter before Diana came on the scene. |
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 5, 2023 10:24:15 GMT -5
‘Hybristophilia’: Why Some Women Love Men Behind Bars Chris Watts, the family annihilator, who, in August 2018, snuffed out the lives of his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two 3- and 4-year-old daughters, spends his time in prison reading and writing “racy” letters. According to a source at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, where Watts is incarcerated, “They [the women] send sexy pictures and he responds. There are a lot of women who think he’s handsome and misunderstood. They send a lot of letters.”
Watts purchases writing materials from the prison commissary and there is no shortage of money in his account, which is regularly replenished by his admirers. “He’s got nothing else to do,” the source continued, “so he feeds his ego in that way. Because he’s not popular at all in prison, he’s in protective custody. The only outlet he has is with these letters.”
The “insider” also noted that Watts’s mail increased exponentially following the airing of American Murder: The Family Next Door, the 2020 Netflix special that detailed the gruesome, vicious and evil murders of his wife and children.
This, of course, begs the question: What sort of woman would choose to interact with such a loathsome, cold-hearted villain, even by mail?
Diane Dimond, who has extensively researched prison groupies and interviewed criminologists and mental health professionals on the subject, said it all boils down to hybristophilia (aka the “Bonnie and Clyde syndrome”). The word is derived from the Greek hybridzein, meaning to perpetuate an outrage against another, and hybristophilia is defined as a form of paraphilia (or perversion) involving sexual attraction to individuals who have committed some sort of “outrage,” such as murder or rape.
Although “prison groupie” is a term coined in the 20th century, the phenomenon is by no means new. There have always been women attracted to “bad boys,” including men charged with, or convicted of, heinous crimes. A good example occurred in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1897, when, on April 20 of that year, Edward “Eddie” Pitzer* (above) – a mustachioed, narrow-shouldered somewhat gaunt young man – shot 19-year-old Louise Gato because she had spurned his advances. Although he shot the girl five times with a revolver, she lived until the following day – long enough to identify her assailant. While confined in the local jail, numerous women and girls wrote to and visited Pitzer, and the police station was inundated with pies, cookies and cakes baked by his admirers.
Things hadn’t changed 80 years later when serial killer Ted Bundy attacked five young women in Tallahassee, Florida, killing two and seriously injuring the others, and kidnaped, raped and murdered 12-year-old Kimberly Diane Leach in Lake City, Florida. While he was held at the Leon County Jail in Tallahassee, he received numerous letters from women all over the country, and the admiration continued after he was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and confined at Florida State Prison. His most staunch supporter and groupie, Carole Ann Boone, actually married Bundy in the courtroom following his conviction in the Leach trial. (While most reporters claim this was accomplished because of a “loophole” in Florida law, Boone actually arranged to have a notary public present in court that day and in Florida, notaries public are allowed to conduct marriages.)
Other infamous killers who married women while incarcerated include, but are not limited to, John Wayne Gacy, Manson “Family Member” Tex Watson, Richard Ramirez, (the so-called “Night Stalker”), Angelo Buono Jr. and Kenneth Bianchi (the Hillside Stranglers), and Lyle and Erik Menendez.
While women are by far the most likely to seek out and form relationships with incarcerated criminals, female killers also have their admirers. Susan Atkins, for example, married twice while serving a life sentence for the Tate/LaBianca murders. Although her first marriage to self-proclaimed multi-millionaire Donald Lee Laisure in 1981 was annulled shortly thereafter, her 1987 marriage to Harvard law student James Whitehouse, a man 15 years her junior, lasted until her death in 2009 at age 61.
Prison groupies often believe their imprisoned lovers have been wrongly convicted of crimes they did not commit. Allegedly, Carole Boone wasn’t convinced of Ted Bundy’s guilt until he commenced confessing in the days prior to his 1989 execution, though how she could have been so naïve is difficult to comprehend. Nonetheless, crime writer R. J. Parker is convinced many prison groupies simply refuse to face facts. “Some of the women know their incarcerated love interest is guilty of heinous crimes,” he explained, “but others are blinded, openly believing the person they are in love with is innocent, even though there is clear evidence to state otherwise.”
Katherine Ramsland, author and professor of forensic psychology and criminal justice at Pennsylvania’s DeSales University, has studied and written extensively about hybristophilia. She is of the opinion that some prison groupies see the convicted men they’ve chosen to befriend as little boys in need of a mother and they attempt to fill this role. Others, she admitted, believe they can actually change the man and make him a better person. Additionally, some women consider an incarcerated man “the perfect boyfriend” because she always knows his whereabouts, and doesn’t have to cook his meals, wash his clothes or do anything else expected of a woman in a traditional relationship. Then, of course, she added, there’s the profit angle wherein the woman may intend to sell the story of her association with a nefarious criminal for a lucrative book or movie deal. (Many believe this was Ann Rule’s goal when she wrote to and visited Ted Bundy at the Salt Lake City jail.)
Sohom Das, M.D., a London-based forensic psychiatrist, has assigned women who become enamored with men behind bars to one of five categories:
Psychosis. In one extremely rare case, he recalled the woman believed she was telepathically communicating with an incarcerated man and the two were involved in a relationship when, in actuality, there had been no contact.
Trauma. A more common explanation is a history of trauma. Such women, he explained, have been “physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused by a partner or by their parents [and] they want to repeat this kind of cycle, either subconsciously or intentionally.” Unfortunately, he said, they “gravitate toward what’s familiar instead of what’s safe,” but “feel safe because even though they [the men] are violent offenders, they are behind bars, allowing the women to ‘actually control and dominate the relationship, maybe for the first time ever.’”
Savior Complex. In such situations, Das explained, the women “feel they could save or transform the prisoner or the killer,” and consider the relationship a challenge.
Idealized Relationship. He agreed with Katherine Ramsland’s observations, admitting there are women who consider their relationship with a man behind bars ideal because they “don’t have to endure the day-to-day issues that are actually involved in most relationships. They don’t have to go through the mundane stuff.”
Hybristophilia. Finally, there’s hybristophilia, by far the most common reason women become involved with men who are imprisoned for heinous crimes. “I’ve heard there are examples of educated women with careers, including lawyers and barristers, who fell for or married killers who will either be sentenced to death or will never be released,” Das said. This, he added, isn’t a phenomenon limited to a particular socioeconomic group, for it has afflicted all sorts of women, and in his opinion, it is “connected to celebrity worship,” i.e., the association with a well-known serial killer or mass murderer such as Ted Bundy or Nikolas Cruz.
As for the incarcerated men themselves, according to Das, it is fair to say “many of them are psychopaths and narcissists, and those groups of people often attract women because they have the ability to be charismatic and to charm vulnerable people who are susceptible to this kind of manipulation. Narcissists are very grandiose, and they’re very entitled to things like sex and relationships.”Sources: Diane Dimond, The Martinsburg Journal, August 9, 2022; Maria Choiorando, The Daily Mail, February 12, 2023, Steve Helling, People, November 22, 2022; Dan Epstein, Rolling Stone, November 24, 2014; The Deliberate Stranger by Richard Larsen, and The Jacksonville Public Library, Jacksonville, Florida.
*Pitzer's two-week trial began May 26, 1897, and on June 5, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
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Post by catherine on Jun 5, 2023 23:09:14 GMT -5
People can call it "hybristophilia" or anything else they choose, but it still boils down to the same thing: crazy!
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Post by pat on Jun 6, 2023 12:36:56 GMT -5
How could any woman want to form a relationship -- even one based on nothing more than letters and money in his commissary account -- with a man who killed two innocent children?
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Post by snowfairy on Jun 22, 2023 10:24:32 GMT -5
On Facebook, the woman in love with Bryan Kohberger has accused people of deleting her posts, and in the past, she's accused people of wanting to kill her or putting a hit out on her. It's obvious she's a few bananas short of a full bunch.
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Post by kitty on Jun 27, 2023 6:53:08 GMT -5
I don't usually criticize a person's physical appearance, but this woman, Brittney Hislope, wants people to think she's God's gift, constantly posts photos of herself, and from the waist down to her knees, she looks deformed! Part of it may be due to those low-rise jeans, but those are some of the worst saddlebags I've ever seen on a fairly slim woman. She needs to wear skirts, or jeans with a much higher waistline, or do something to hide those hideous lumps!
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