Why Would These Women Marry the Menendez Brothers?

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Their wedding cake was a Twinkie from a vending machine. The ceremony took place in a prison waiting room. And the wedding night never happened, because the groom was imprisoned as a violent offender and conjugal visits were strictly prohibited.

When Tammi Saccoman, now 63, married convicted murderer Erik Menendez 25 years ago, she knew that it wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

Erik, now 53, and his older brother Lyle, 56, are the notorious Menendez brothers who gunned down their parents at point-blank range with 16 shotgun blasts in 1989. It was one of the most gruesome crimes that Beverly Hills cops had ever seen.

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