Then there’s what psychologists call “hybristophilia,” a sexual attraction to the men and women behind horrific crimes.Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and Scott Peterson all received marriage proposals.Early one May morning, Renea Royster arrived at her son’s apartment, pulled out her laptop, and scrolled through the dozens of messages from prisoners that had collected in her inbox overnight.She began her daily grind of copy-paste — moving messages sent via Corr Links, an email service available to federal inmates, to the Facebook pages they had paid her to create in their names.Scams are widely known to be common in the world of prison pen pals.
She’ll be your personal assistant — one man had her research Medieval England so he could write a novel set there — for 5 a month.When her son Phil, 23, is asked what she does for a living, “I say my mom’s a secretary for federal inmates…Basically anything they want us to do, we can do it.” Phil’s specialty is getting the prisoners on dating websites, helping them meet women, and then explaining to those women that their new acquaintance might not be able to grab that drink for a while.“Members of each religion seek out pen pals from the same faith,” Lovell said.Other sites, like Black and Pink, which calls for abolishing prisons, frame communication with prisoners as a kind of political work.
If they had, they might have found not that less attractive people were more deceptive, but that older people were more deceptive.