European women drawn to Texas death row inmates

European women drawn to Texas death row inmates

Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope you’ll read this story, it is pathetic, it’s ridiculous, it shows the desperation and lonliness that many in this world feel and I don’t mean the death row inmates, I suppose the phrase There’s a sucker born every minute pretty much fits the bill on this one. there’s really not that much more I can say, not that I’d consider posting anyway.

LIVINGSTON, Texas - Romina Deeken is a classic beauty, long and lithe, cascading blond hair, green eyes set in alabaster, not the type of woman who needs to solicit attention from men.

But last year, the 24-year-old German reached out to a convicted killer on Texas’ death row. Her motives were altruistic, she said, not romantic. In time, after more than 50 letters posted back and forth across the Atlantic, Ms. Deeken said, mutual feelings grew.

“I have a connection with him,” she explained recently, shaking slightly, tears running down her cheek. “Everyone in life has a vision, has dreams, has fears, is searching for something. He is the person I can talk deeply with about these things.”

Ms. Deeken’s story is coffee shop talk in this small southeast Texas town, home of the maximum-security Polunsky Unit and death row.

Each month, dozens of travel-weary, love-struck European women arrive in Livingston for visits with condemned inmates, a pair of four-hour chats through Plexiglas. There is no touching.

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European women drawn to Texas death row inmates