Here is a little news report:
Some women can't resist bad boys. Scott Peterson, jailed in California on charges of killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner, is getting tons of fan mail from adoring women, The Modesto Bee reported yesterday. The stack of letters includes one written by a woman serving time for killing her husband. Experts said they're not surprised, noting that guards sometimes joke that Death Row inmates have an easier time finding dates than do their jailers. Serial killers Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez were married in prison, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh received several marriage proposals. "They don't know if he's dangerous, if he did it, if the letter will get through. It's drama with a capital D," said Sheila Isenberg, author of "Women Who Love Men Who Kill." Peterson, 30, has pleaded innocent to the murders.
It is hard to explain the females who write love letters to Scott Peterson in prison. The fact that there are women who are attracted to men who kill their wives says somehing about our society.
Simple.
An aggressive personality is often--maybe always--more important to success than pure brain power.
Therefore, it would be one successful evolutionary strategy for women to be attracted to such men, thereby unwittingly giving their offspring the same aggressive trait.
It might be that the criminally agressive male passes his genes down through the generation by attracting and impregnating women, which women eventually leave him, taking the children so produced with them to a meeker male who is better equipped to pay for raising the aggressive male's children to adulthood.
LOL--in such cases, the world believes the woman was enlightened by experience to learn to appreciate the "right" kind of man, that she has (gag) "matured."