Post by MXB on Nov 27, 2007 23:57:14 GMT -5
Seems like the groupies are out in force again.
Any of us who are involved with Death Row in any way know about these sad and tragic woman who chase after men who have been sentenced to death, though most of us don't understand their desperate need to be accepted, even loved, by their killer penpal, friends, boyfriends.
We know that the men gain money, stamps, packages, attention, sex, and sometimes illegal substances from their pathetic paramours, but what do the women themselves get back?
There's the notoriety of course, after all what other famous person is likely to write back to some woman who turns up from nowhere wanting to be his friend? Chances are that the celebrity killer will. And he'll more than likely write passionate letters, full of dreams and sexual fantasies that would thrill the heart of many a poor bedraggled groupie.
We're not talking about secure women with secure lifestyles here, these groupies are often unemployed single mothers, struggling to survive on too little money and too little love or respect. Not that they'll gain any of that from their new DR men either, but they'll be desperate enough to believe the lies he'll tell them, and somehow that will be enough.
I know one DR guy who has sent the same poems out to his wives, penpals and groupies for over a decade now, and still the women turn up regularly looking for what they convince themselves is genuine love.
And yeah, he'll tell each of them that he loves them with his heart and soul, that he's waited all his life for her, that she is his soulmate, and how desperate he is to make love (using far more graphic terminology) to her, and foolishly she will believe it. And keep on sending him whatever he asks for.
Some of these women are just lonely and needy, others have emotional problems of varying degrees, sometimes quite serious. And don't think that we are speaking here of young immature girls, many of these women throwing themselves at much younger men are in the forties, fifties and sixties.
Recently I heard of one DR guy who was given an ultimatum by his latest groupie, (a woman who appears to have an urgent need for psychiatric care), that he must choose between her and his long-faithful wife. Sadly, the groupie is one of a long line of women he has formed 'relationships' with over the years.
And I know personally of cases where the groupie has harassed and attacked the wife of the DR inmate whom she has laid claim to, believing that she has a greater 'right' to that inmate than the wife because after all he told her that she was one his true love.
Pity the poor wife, the innocent party in these twisted threesomes, who gets abused by some vindictive groupie just because she has remained by her man's side after his incarceration.
Surely with so many unattached men on the row these women could at least leave the married ones alone, and have some respect for their wives, instead of hurling uncalled for abuse at them when they discover that their DR 'boyfriends' are far from being single?
A plague on those who don't !
Any of us who are involved with Death Row in any way know about these sad and tragic woman who chase after men who have been sentenced to death, though most of us don't understand their desperate need to be accepted, even loved, by their killer penpal, friends, boyfriends.
We know that the men gain money, stamps, packages, attention, sex, and sometimes illegal substances from their pathetic paramours, but what do the women themselves get back?
There's the notoriety of course, after all what other famous person is likely to write back to some woman who turns up from nowhere wanting to be his friend? Chances are that the celebrity killer will. And he'll more than likely write passionate letters, full of dreams and sexual fantasies that would thrill the heart of many a poor bedraggled groupie.
We're not talking about secure women with secure lifestyles here, these groupies are often unemployed single mothers, struggling to survive on too little money and too little love or respect. Not that they'll gain any of that from their new DR men either, but they'll be desperate enough to believe the lies he'll tell them, and somehow that will be enough.
I know one DR guy who has sent the same poems out to his wives, penpals and groupies for over a decade now, and still the women turn up regularly looking for what they convince themselves is genuine love.
And yeah, he'll tell each of them that he loves them with his heart and soul, that he's waited all his life for her, that she is his soulmate, and how desperate he is to make love (using far more graphic terminology) to her, and foolishly she will believe it. And keep on sending him whatever he asks for.
Some of these women are just lonely and needy, others have emotional problems of varying degrees, sometimes quite serious. And don't think that we are speaking here of young immature girls, many of these women throwing themselves at much younger men are in the forties, fifties and sixties.
Recently I heard of one DR guy who was given an ultimatum by his latest groupie, (a woman who appears to have an urgent need for psychiatric care), that he must choose between her and his long-faithful wife. Sadly, the groupie is one of a long line of women he has formed 'relationships' with over the years.
And I know personally of cases where the groupie has harassed and attacked the wife of the DR inmate whom she has laid claim to, believing that she has a greater 'right' to that inmate than the wife because after all he told her that she was one his true love.
Pity the poor wife, the innocent party in these twisted threesomes, who gets abused by some vindictive groupie just because she has remained by her man's side after his incarceration.
Surely with so many unattached men on the row these women could at least leave the married ones alone, and have some respect for their wives, instead of hurling uncalled for abuse at them when they discover that their DR 'boyfriends' are far from being single?
A plague on those who don't !
