British Rebecca Short went to the USA to marry the murderer sentenced to death after telling her family that she was going to Disneyland. Rebecca, 26, told her family she was on vacation, but 35-year-old double killer Manuel Ovante Jr. He secretly became pen pals with She. Intern dental nurse Rebecca shared photos from Disney World, Florida and the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Then, he shocked his relatives by sharing their wedding photos from Eyman prison in Florence, Arizona.
A friend of Rebecca’s told The Sun:
“She was always obsessed with watching Netflix documentaries about serial killers in America, but no one thought she’d run off and marry a serial killer.”
The prisoner Rebbecca married, named Ovante, broke into a house with friends in 2008 while searching for drugs. Ovante, who shot and killed two people here, was sentenced to prison in 2010. On April 14, she was allowed to leave her cell for her wedding.
Rebecca told him “Until death do us part!” He brought a black wedding cake that read.
Rebecca posed for a photo with her husband and her husband’s family, who came out of her cell in an orange jumpsuit.
A neighbor of Rebecca’s said, “She told me about it, but I really don’t want to talk about it, it’s not my family.”
THAT’S HOW THE SERIAL KILLER KNOW HIS HOSPITAL
It was learned that Rebecca wrote to Ovante after she found Ovante’s pen pal profile online. On the jaillifeandbeyond.com website, Ovante’s profile read that he was single and read:
“I am an easy person to get along with. I am extremely loyal to the people I care about. Nobody is perfect, so I hope not to be judged by past mistakes.
“I like listening to music and reading books. I have a daughter named Bonnie.
“I’m not sure what to expect from a pen pal, so you might have to surprise me.”
There are 113 death row convicts in Eyman prison. Prisoners are executed by lethal injection after an average of 17 years in prison.