IMO, she started desired celebrity status and later realized there were millions of dollars involved.
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Women who marry death row prisons love the celebrity status," said Jack Levin, a criminologist who is director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University in Boston. Levin is co-author of the book "Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder," which explores, among other things, what Levin called "killer groupies."
"These are the same women who might correspond with a rock star or a rap artist," Levin said. When such a woman writes to a rock star, he said, "the best she can hope for is a computerized signature on a photograph." When she writes to a serial killer on Death Row, "she might get a marriage proposal."
And Death Row inmates have no shortage of suitors. In fact, the more notorious the murderer, the less he has to work for female companionship, San Quentin spokesman Eric Messick said.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-03-...th-row-san-quentin-state-prison-laci-peterson
From this interview with Lorri:
http://www.arktimes.com/gyrobase/the-architect-and-the-inmate/Content?oid=1886039&storyPage=1
-Her parents are deeply religious and her dad describes her as “a rebel at heart”. (This fits perfectly. She decided to go after a serial killer because it would meet two of her needs. One need was to obviously frighten and upset her parents and the other was to achieve celebrity status.)
-She stated that she was attracted to Damien because they were kindred spirits. (No. She also admitted in this interview they had nothing in common. She was a hoping to achieve celebrity status.)
“It's funny. I didn't realize it then, but Damien told me later that for the first year of our correspondence, most of the time he didn't have the slightest idea what I was talking about! "For example, I would tell him stories about things like taking a weekend trip to Monticello, and visiting a garden in D.C. called Dumbarton Oaks, and he would respond with how he didn't know anyone who would even walk out their back door to see a garden, let alone drive for five hours. "We were coming from such different worlds.....”
(She just described how they were obviously not kindred spirits. She was a seeking celebrity status.)
-"I decided to leave New York about a year and a half after I first met Damien. I can't really say what prompted it. There came a time, after I'd known him for a while, that I realized this was what my life was going to be." (She left everything, but had no idea why? I know why. She was seeking celebrity status.)
-"I was leaving a great job, all my friends, my home - a city I loved. Yet I knew it was the right thing. At that time we weren't talking about marriage." (She left everything to be with a man on death row who killed three children and there wasn't even a guarantee of marriage or any commitment. Leaving everything would be worth it if she could eventually become a celebrity.)