Reaching out from death row
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
From the forbidding, steely confines of San Quentin Prison’s death row, scores of California’s most notorious convicts have been reaching out to the free world via the Internet.
Scott Peterson’s Web page features smiling photos of himself with his wife Laci, whom he was found guilty of murdering and dumping into San Francisco Bay while she was pregnant with their unborn son. It also links viewers to his family’s support site, where Peterson has a recent blog posting on his “wrongful conviction.”
Mustachioed Randy Kraft, condemned Orange County slayer of 16 young men, is looking for pen pals. So is convicted Northern California serial killer Charles Ng, who describes himself as shy and offers to sell his wildlife drawings.
Tattooed and muscled Richard Allen Davis, whose abduction and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas helped trigger California’s “three strikes” law, is not selling his hobby crafts but wants correspondents.
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