Doreen was married to serial killer Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker.nnThroughout the entire time that Ramirez spent in prison, he continuously kept gaining a huge number of sympathizers, largely women, who sent him love letters and wanted to see him. It was Doreen who sent him at least 75 letters while he was in prison, starting her correspondence with him shortly after he got arrested. Eventually, the two started seeing each other and talking on the phone through the plexiglass in prison, and he proposed to her in 1988. They got married in 1996 at the San Quentin State Prison in California.nnAlthough Ramirez was on death row, there was still no set date for execution due to pending appeals by his defense. The families of the victims he murdered and sexually assaulted in cold blood were in utter shock and disbelief. Doreen Lioy’s own family had disowned her over her love affair with a serial killer, including her twin sister. Needless to say that her side of the family did not show up at the prison wedding.