By R.G. Dunlop

Special to NKyTribune

They live more than 2,300 miles apart.

Over the years they’ve visited in person for just a few hours once or twice a month, sitting on opposite sides of a table in an often-crowded room.

Their only physical contact: occasional hand-holding.

They were married more than 26 years ago — in a prison chapel.

The bride: Elizabeth Turpin, convicted murderer. The groom: Robert Reichel, former Ivy League college student and retired software developer.

She’s locked up at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women in Shelby County. He lives in Sammamish, Washington.

An unlikely couple? To say the least.

Now 59 years old, Turpin was found guilty by a jury of plotting the February 1986 stabbing death of Michael Turpin, her husband at the time. She was 1

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