Rebecca Sneed and Lyle Menendez had a long acquaintance before they actually got married. In the interim, as mentioned, Menendez would get hitched to another woman Anna Eriksson. Menendez met both women the same way — starting out as prison penpals. According to NBC News, Sneed and Menendez knew each other for 10 years before they got married.
Menendez’s first wife Eriksson found the prisoner sweet and charming in his letters and was willing to overlook his criminal history. After she visited Menendez in prison she very quickly agreed to tie the knot. The ceremony took place over speakerphone in prison in 1997 — and the pair used proxies to place rings on each other’s fingers during the ceremony (via CNN).
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While touching, the marriage ultimately did not last. Eriksson soon discovered that Menendez was cheating on her by writing to another woman. It is not known if the “other woman” was Sneed but either way, Eriksson and Menendez divorced in 2001.
