I fell in love with a convicted killer serving 20 years in prison — here’s why I want a future with him

Their emotion is killer.

A British female has fallen successful emotion pinch a U.S. captive who is serving 20 years for manslaughter.

Robyn Kett came crossed a Reddit station successful June 2024 from a family personnel of Deandre Parsons, 27, asking if anyone would beryllium consenting to beryllium his pen pal.

The family said successful nan station that Parsons, who killed a man pinch a firearm, was lonely.

The 33-year-old stay-at-home mom decided to nonstop a connection retired of curiosity — she had conscionable mislaid her partner, Nick, 35, to crab successful December 2023 and decided “life is excessively short.”

“I saw him. I conscionable thought, ‘Why don’t I sprout him a message?'” Kett told South West News Service. “My friend was penning to personification and said it was different and I was curious.”

She said they “instantly connected,” contempt him not being her “normal type.”

“He was really easy to talk to. He seemed genuine,” Kett shared. “It was for illustration I had known him my full life.”

“You cognize erstwhile you consciousness thing and it conscionable grabs you,” she added.

When Kett and Parsons, some from Connecticut, first began talking, Parsons didn’t opportunity excessively overmuch astir his conviction, Kett said, but he yet began to unfastened up.

“I Googled him to make judge he wasn’t a maniac,” she admitted.

Parsons pleaded blameworthy to first-degree manslaughter pinch a firearm successful Stamford Superior Court aft an equipped robbery went wrong. In September 2022, he was sentenced to 20 years, SWNS reported.

“The original complaint was felony murder,” Kett explained. “He went to a location to rob weed but a man and his partner and kid were there. He didn’t spell retired that time to harm anybody.”

But Kett doesn’t judge Parsons for being a convicted killer.

“I can’t link him pinch nan crime. I’m not a judgmental person,” Kett said. “You can’t judge a personification because of what they are successful for. You don’t cognize nan individual circumstances.”

The brace connection each day, and Parsons calls Kett from nan situation erstwhile he has nan chance. He gets 10 messages and six free calls per day, and they usage that clip to talk everything from nutrient to TV shows.

“He makes maine laugh,” Kett said. “I conscionable ended up falling love.”

She added, “It’s each natural. He told maine he loved maine earlier he moreover saw pictures of me.”

The mates has now been talking for 4 months, and Kett plans to prevention up money and get paperwork to o.k. her visits completed successful bid to alert to meet nan convicted slayer successful situation adjacent year.

Despite his 20-year sentence, Parsons is up for parole successful six years.

“He talks astir nan early a lot,” Kett said. “I’d move complete there. I want a early pinch him.

“From losing my partner successful December I realized life is excessively short. I didn’t expect to ever find emotion again,” she added.

Luckily for Kett, her friends and family aren’t judgmental either — they show her “if you tin find happiness, drawback it.”