Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy married Carole Ann Boone while on trial for murder.
The pair first met in 1974 in Washington, assisting in search efforts for the women that Bundy had murdered. Despite spending years apart while the serial killer committed dozens of murders around the country, Boone and Bundy reconnected while he was imprisoned for attempted murder, and they married during the courthouse proceedings for his slaying of 12-year-old Kimberly Leach.
“I’ve never seen anything in Ted that indicates any kind of destructiveness ... any kind of hostility,” Boone said during the trial’s proceedings, according to The Stranger Beside Me, written by crime reporter and former friend of Bundy, Ann Rule. “He’s a warm, kind, patient man.”
Despite Bundy’s convictions, Boone continued