The lovebirds: Charles Manson, 80, mass murderer and Afton Elaine Burton, 26, idiot.
Mass murderer Charles Manson has been issued a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison.
The Kings County marriage license, viewed Monday by The Associated Press, was granted on November 7 for 80-year-old Manson and Afton Elaine Burton, who left her Midwestern home nine years ago and moved to Corcoran, California — the site of the prison — to be near Manson.
She maintains several websites advocating Manson’s innocence.
The license does not specify a wedding date and indicates the couple has 90 days to get married or they will have to reapply.
Burton, who goes by the name ‘Star,’ told the AP that she and Manson will be married next month.
‘Y’all can know that it’s true,’ she said. ‘It’s going to happen.’
‘I love him,’ she added. ‘I’m with him. There’s all kinds of things’…
Related, from Château Heartiste: The Origin Of Women’s Love For Jerks?
SCIENCE! has given us a glimpse into the possible origins of the renowned human female mate preference for jerkboys of varying jerkitude.
Male chimpanzees that wage a campaign of sustained aggression against females sire more offspring than their less violent counterparts, new research finds.
The results suggest that such nasty behavior from males evolved because it gave the meanest males a reproductive advantage, said study co-author Ian Gilby, a primatologist at Arizona State University in Phoenix.
This chimpanzee behavior could also provide some insight into the roots of sexual aggression in men.
