{"id":2300,"date":"2008-08-24T06:07:58","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2008-08-24T06:07:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T10:07:58","slug":"till-lethal-injection-do-us-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/till-lethal-injection-do-us-part","title":{"rendered":"Till Lethal Injection Do Us Part"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everything about this NYPost<\/em> article on people who date, marry and otherwise romance imprisoned psychotic murderers<\/a> is bizarre, as you’d expect. But I don’t think the goofiness of this Polaroid of Gerard John Schaefer<\/a> proposing to his girlfriend —<\/p>\n

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— prepares you for the impossibly ghastly crimes that he committed.<\/p>\n

It may, however, prepare you for the punchline to his romance: “In 1995, Shaefer was killed by his cellmate because he had not left enough hot water to make coffee. His betrothed was devastated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everything about this NYPost article on people who date, marry and otherwise romance imprisoned psychotic murderers is bizarre, as you’d expect. But I don’t think the goofiness of this Polaroid of Gerard John Schaefer proposing to his girlfriend — — prepares you for the impossibly ghastly crimes that he committed. It may, however, prepare you … <\/p>\n

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