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* At the age of 24, MaryAlice Olmstead-Stephens was soon to be a divorcee. Six months earlier, her marriage to Dan Stephens had collapsed, and she was trying to get on with her life in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by making new friends and taking classes in computer animation. But like most women who have suffered a bad breakup, picking up the pieces wasn't easy. "I'm very lonely right now, and I just want someone to talk to and laugh with and love me," MaryAlice wrote in an e-mail to a friend during a particularly bad moment on April 12, 2001.
Two weeks later, while out with her sister, MaryAlice met an attractive 31-year-old cell-phone salesman named Rick Clappsy. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, How a sweet girl fell for a killer: twenty-four-year-old MaryAlice...