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A Seattle-area corrections officer has been charged with bigamy after his two wives learned about each other on Facebook, prosecutors say.
Alan O’Neill, 41, married his first wife in 2001, when he was known as Alan Fulk, according to The News Tribune of Tacoma. The couple split up eight years later, and Fulk moved out, but the pair never divorced, the newspaper reported.
Last December, he reportedly petitioned to have his name changed to O’Neill before marrying his second wife.
The first wife allegedly learned about the second wife when Facebook recommended the two women become “friends,” Prosecutor Mark Lindquist told The News Tribune.
O’Neill, who has worked as a Pierce County corrections officer for five years, has been placed on administrative leave and is scheduled to appear in court March 22 on the felony charge.
Lindquist told the newspaper that the first wife alerted authorities to the dual marriages after he asked her to keep quiet about it while he fixed the situation.
Apparently, she wasn’t convinced.
“It’s not the crime of the century, but it is a crime,” Lindquist told the newspaper.
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Tired of reading about Iran and super bombs, tired of reading about dead babies, not a TV watcher and I really thought this might be a nice juicy story that I could say "stupid is as stupid does." Instead it's really just about a guy who didn't bother getting a divorce and a vindictive (ex) wife. Now I'm really bored!
Yep
I'll bet that he changed his last name because this evil, vindictive, old hag of a 1st wife kept his last name (out of spite and because her maiden name was tarnished by her).
My brother's ex-wife did the same thing. We have a great last name in the whole State and this wh*re kept our last name after a few months of marriage.
I tried to warn him about her; a young gold-digger.
You really are clueless, aren't you? Of course wife #1 still had his last name - BECAUSE THEY WERE STILL MARRIED. The more you post, the more pathetic you sound. I'm sorry for you if you had a bad divorce yourself - but maybe, just maybe, you did some things that caused your ex-wife to be entitled to be bitter.
And for the record - I'm one of those "evil, bitter, divorced women". I asked my ex-husband to leave because I was tired of having to be both the major financial provider AND the one taking care of everything around the house. Despite his being fairly useless as a husband, the only reason I ever felt any bitterness towards him was because as a result of some changes he made in the yard of our house - which, by the way, I had bought on my own and lived in for years before the marriage - my mother suffered what could have been a serious injury. I didn't ask for anything from him other than to sign the divorce papers - and it took forever to get him to do that. But I absolutely had no bitterness over the failure of the marriage - I was just happy to be able to go on with my life. Maybe you should try doing the same - get some counselling to help get you past your bad experiences and move on.
(And just for the record - an immediate reversion to my maiden name once the divorce was final was part of my original divorce filing.)
How many illegal's do we have running around and they are busting this schmucks hump?
Because the ugly women like the illegals...they're the only ones that will sleep with them.
And they hate men that "cheat" on them...even though it was 8 years later, she still hates him and savored the day that she could get her revenge... as if his having to live with her during the marriage wasn't enough of a punishment.
I had nine.
I found the answer too late in life.
It would have been much cheaper to just get up in the morning, buy them a house, and leave.
Off with his head!!
Reading some of the comments above, I can only assume that the moderator is off today. The name calling really went over the top for some.
With the goverment now making it legal for gays/lesbians to marry (in most states) don't be surprised if down the road we hear people screming it is unconstitutional to not be able to have more than one spouse and this will be another culture change. Not saying it's right, just saying don't be suprised.
Why didn't he just pay wife #1 the money she demanded?
Whoopee do.
SO the guy "forgot".
SO did his ex, "err, wife".
A friend of mine has a wife who never divorced (and thought she had), he tried to re-finance their home and found out then.
It's all fixed now, no problem.
Now, if this guy was sleeping with them both, that would be a story.
Did he change his Facebook status from "married,married" to " incarcerated" ?
In other news, the FLDS church continues to insist it is fine for one man to have many wives -- like they do in the Middle East, yet the gummint seems to think chasing that sort of stuff is too expensive, so they concentrate on the guys who are too stupid to get a divorce.
Just a computer error.
Did this guy really ask his wife to keep quite? LMAO
Maybe if he would have not asked her to keep quite, she would have just allowed him to resolve the situation, lol.
Who cares the had been separated 8 fricken years??!
Read the article again - they had been MARRIED for eight years when they split up in 2009 - so they had only been separated for about two years.
Why is bigamy illegal?? Who cares
I'd be interested to know how this louse planned to "fix" the situation. Divorce the first wife? Divorce the second "wife"? Kill both of them? Or just disappear again and marry another unsuspecting woman?
Oh come on now... we have legal gay marriage in many places and these same people discriminate against polygamy people? What a screwed up society we live in? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let's stop discriminating against folks and their lifestyle choices? Come on you gay folks where is the outrage??
Mexico has been talking about a marriage licence that expires in a couple years. Sounds like a good idea.
Interesting to see all of the anti-woman comments when the one person in this story who knew he was doing something wrong was the man. He changed his name but didn't bother to file for divorce and he is a correctional officer!
Hell hath no fury...
Religion is breaking you all down with 'holier than thou' laws? It's you, breaking yourselves down.
People signing on to read the story because they actually take pleasure in seeing others suffer is a good enough example. Reality television is nothing more than a modern-day colosseum. Therefore, who are you all to call the Romans ruthless... considering what you entertain yourselves with? Who are you all to call religious militants 'evil'... considering your OWN motives? An evil disposition is worse than, and is often precursor to, an evil act. In the few days that I have been a participant on these boards, there are clearly plenty of evil dispositions.
Why call the charge of bigamy 'unfair', and assert that it's religiously motivated? Posters who have done that have revealed much about their own dispositions. Just as GPGPGPGP stated, there are many practical reasons why that bigamy law is in place. Yet apparently, some of you feel so entitled to the irresponsible use of freedom, that it's the bigamy law that is wrong here? Some of you are so determined to lash out against authority and religion that you make judgment calls in total ignorance, and you think your personal emotions or experiences are excuse enough for this.
Most of you... your dispositions are clearly evil, to the point that it blinds you into incorrectly thinking of yourselves as enlightened. Then you have private interests lobbying government, trying to control you, and you want to know why and call THEM evil. Pathetic.
He is like many other over worked Correction Officers now telling themselves, "So this is what you have to do to get a day off".
i don't care
Yes a real crime getting Dicked by the ex
"The couple split up eight years later, and Fulk moved out, but the pair never divorced, the newspaper reported"
They both first got married in 2001 and splited in 2009. Now it is 2012. The man remarried in December 2011.
Has the woman had any relationship with other man after the split back in 2009? If she has, she might commit adultery. It is because she is still married with Mr. Fulk.
The split from 2009 to 2012, if the guy has not gone back to his first wife, then the guy just filed the divorce for they have separated since 2009 in which it is an irrevocable relationship. And the divorce court is usually granted a cool down period, six month, for any possibility of reconciliation of the marriage. And they have separated since 2009, it has been more than six months. It should have no problems at all.
Just go ahead filing the divorce paper and getting it done. Sometimes it is just forgetfulness and if it is the judge, he/she should grant for mercy and it is obvious his former wife is still grumpy and bitter and jealousy for he could find another wife.