‘Night Stalker’ Weds at San Quentin
With an exchange of rings, kisses and vows of “love forever,” serial killer Richard Ramirez and Doreen Lioy were married shortly before noon Thursday in a visitors gallery at San Quentin State Prison.
The groom, known as “the Night Stalker,” was released from shackles to participate in the brief ceremony. He and the bride, who took her husband’s name, embraced and kissed at the start and at the conclusion of the 10-minute event.
According to witness Philip Carlo, the New York author who recently published a biography of Ramirez, the man convicted of murdering 13 people during a 1985 rage through Los Angeles County was rushed back to his cell on death row after the ceremony. Ramirez, 36, won’t be allowed conjugal visits.
As the new bride swept past the swarm of photographers and reporters waiting outside the prison, she volunteered that she was “ecstatically happy.”
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