Doreen Lioy, center, of San Rafael, Calif., walks with her head bowed as she and author Phillip Carlo, left, are escorted by prison guards to the media gathered outside the gates of San Quentin Prison ...

In 1996, serial killer Richard Ramirez married 41-year-old freelance magazine editor Doreen Lioy in a visiting room at San Quentin prison. Her whereabouts were unknown at the time of his death.

AP Photo/Lacy Atkins Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison, after she married serial killer "Night Stalker" ...

Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison, after she married serial killer "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez on Thursday Oct. 3, 1996 in San Quentin, CA. AP Photo/Lacy Atkins ...

Doreen Lioy is an American woman who gained public attention for marrying Richard Ramirez, the infamous 'Night Stalker'. She was born in Burbank, California in 1955.

A wedding photograph of "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez and Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison on October 3, 1996. Lioy said she was "captivated" by Ramirez's mug shot.

After he was caught and arrested, he met freelance editor Doreen Lioy. In 1988, the year he was convicted, he proposed. They married in the San Quentin visitor waiting room in 1996.

He married Doreen Lioy while he was in prison. By Korin Miller Updated: Feb 10, 2021 1:19 PM EST Richard Ramirez, called the "Night Stalker," was a serial killer in the mid-1980s.

Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison, after she married serial killer "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez on Thursday Oct. 3, 1996 in San Quentin, CA.

Doreen Lioy outside the gates of San Quentin Prison, after she married serial killer "Night Stalker" Richard Ramirez on Thursday Oct. 3, 1996 in San Quentin, CA.