Charmed, I’m Sure

They’re some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Yet they’ve loved some of the worst people you can imagine.

How could anyone love a serial killer?

Truth is, it could happen to almost anyone. Through my work as the American Producer on Season Two of “Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer”,
I’ve come to know some of them, including Amy.

She was just 18 when she met Tony, a smart and charming, talented musician.  He wooed her and eventually wed her. They were together for five years, living a seemingly normal life in a normal middle class neighbourhood. They were the couple next-door.

But Tony had a secret habit that was anything but normal. He liked to hunt, rape, and murder little girls. Amy had no idea she was married to a monster, cleverly disguised as Mr. Charming.

Then the monster began coming home.

Slipping drugs into her drinks and having his way with her while she was unconscious. More than once, she awoke with his hands around her neck.
One night, he stopped just short of killing her.

She left him the next day.

Four years after the divorce, Tony’s secret killing spree became front page news. He was convicted and sentenced to die for what he’d done to five young girls. Police suspect, and he has hinted, there were many more. We’ll never really know.

It had all happened right under Amy’s nose.  She had loved him…or the man she thought she knew.

Now, 15 years later, she has put away the past. He’s gone now, from this life and hers. She’s a wife and mother, a successful businesswoman, and you’d really like her if you met her.

But you won’t, not in our story.

We’re not going to risk her harm by outing her now, because she was a victim. She is a survivor.  And she’s one of the nicest people you’d ever want
to meet.