After spending countless years in jail for a crime he didn’t do, then spending more time for a crime he might have done but Netflix can’t tell for sure, Steven Avery is getting married. He recently got engaged to Lynn Hartman, a legal secretary from Las Vegas.
According to the Daily Mail, the two initially got to know each other through a string of letters. Their interaction then progressed to phone calls and they finally met up last week when she secretly visited him at Waupun Correctional Institute in Wisconsin after “dating” for eight months.
The romance has been kept under wraps after Hartman received a ton of criticism on social media for allegedly going after Avery for his fame and potential fortune. But apparently Avery has faith in his future bride.
“She’s going to be my future bride,” he told Daily Mail. “We’ll be laughing forever. I’m happy, she treats me decent, she loves me, she’s kind of spoiling me right now. I jut want to be happy and enjoy my life, I think I did enough time.”
However, this isn’t the first time Avery claimed he found love. Not only was he married once before, but he was also engaged not too long ago to a woman named Sandra Greenman. According to her, Avery’s latest engagement is complete BS.
‘She’s very pretty, there’s no way she’d want Steven Avery usually,” she said. “All the family are afraid of her, something isn’t right, I know she wants fame and she’s looking for money.”
Yikes. Unfortunately this assumption is hard to confirm — little is known about the 53-year-old blonde — but she did post a statement about their pending nuptials on the Steven Avery Project Facebook page.
“I am very happy to announce that Steven Avery asked me to marry him today, and I accepted. It has been a difficult road getting to this point in our lives but we are very happy,” she wrote. “Despite all obstacles, and Steven’s wrongful conviction and incarceration, we plan to be married shortly after he is released.”
Avery, 53, was sentenced to to life without parole in 2005 after he was convicted for killing Teresa Halbachin, a 25-year-old photographer. His nephew Brendan Dassey, then 16, was also convicted, but is set to be released in the next 60 days after his conviction was quashed last month.
