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row inmates. For various reasons, the delay lasted eight years until 1996.
     

Bizarre Marriage on Death Row
    During the ceremony, Ramirez refused to wear a gold ring – he explained that Satanists refuse to wear gold. Strangely enough, Ramirez made his teenaged niece, who was attending the ceremony, pull down her skirt because other inmates were looking at her.
    It isn’t known exactly why Ramirez married Doreen Lioy; most likely, he believed her claims of being a virgin. Ramirez comes from a culture in which men are only supposed to marry virgins. Since no conjugal visits are allowed on death row, it is highly unlikely that Richard Ramirez will ever find out if Lioy is lying or not.
    Richard Ramirez is still on California’s death row at the historic San Quentin Penitentiary north of San Francisco. He is still awaiting execution on the 13 counts of murder he was convicted of in 1989. Ramirez has now spent most of his adult life on death row, and he’s been on death row so long that the method of execution has changed to lethal execution from the gas chamber.
    For her part, Doreen Lioy claims to believe that her husband is innocent. She also claims to be proud of her man. It’s likely she’ll be there when Ramirez is finally executed by lethal injection. 
     

Sondra London: The Queen of Serial Killer Groupies
     
    Sondra London is known as the queen of serial killer groupies for very good reason. Not only has she made a career writing about serial killers, but London dated one serial killer in high school and married another serial killer, Danny Rolling, whom she wrote a book with.
    London’s involvement with serial killers began at St. Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, where she claimed to have dated future serial killer Gerard John Schaefer. Schaefer was a draft-dodging cross dresser and peeping Tom who killed animals as a hobby. Incredibly, Schaefer later became a police officer and used his authority to kidnap, torture, and murder at least two teenaged girls. Schaeffer has been suspected of as many deaths as 34 women. Schaeffer was sentenced to life in prison and was found stabbed to death in his cell in 1995.
    Some reports indicate that London kept up her involvement with Schaefer after he went to prison. She even helped him get a collection of his fiction writings published. Some experts think Schaefer’s fiction was based on his exploits as a serial killer.
     

The Serial Killer Groupie Queen and the Happy Face Killer
    Around the time of her marriage to Rolling, Sondra London got involved with the “Happy Face Killer,” Keith Hunter Jesperson. Jesperson is a monster, a six foot six inch, 240-pound man who beat and strangled as many as eight women throughout the American West. He often combined killing with his job as a truck driver. On one occasion, Jesperson even went back to a bar and started drinking and carousing with the boys after killing a woman.
    After he went to prison for his crimes, Jesperson became notorious for promoting the Self-Start Serial Killer Kit. He also claimed that he was responsible for 160 killings. It isn’t known if Jesperson really killed all of the women or simply made up stories to confuse and confound prosecutors. During his period of greatest notoriety, Jesperson was contacted by London and communicated with her but had a falling out after she published some of his writings without his permission.
     

Profiting from Serial Killers
    The serial killer whom Sondra London is most closely connected to is Danny Rolling, “the Gainesville Ripper.” She and Rolling not only married, they wrote a book about his experience called The Making of a Serial Killer.
    At the time of their marriage in 1993 The New York Times described London as marketing media projects dealing with convicted killers for a living. The newspaper also reported that London was operating a business called Media Queen News and Information Services for that purpose.
     

The Gainesville Ripper
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