It was a red-letter day. Two women who have been pen pals for 51 years finally met in person for the first time — and the memorable moment was captured in a heartwarming TikTok video that got over 130,000 views. Debbie Houschild, of Oceanport, New Jersey, started writing to Jane Bean of Sittingbourne, England, in … Read more
Their love is killer. A British woman has fallen in love with a U.S. prisoner who is serving 20 years for manslaughter. Robyn Kett came across a Reddit post in June 2024 from a family member of Deandre Parsons, 27, asking if anyone would be willing to be his pen pal. A British woman has … Read more
It was an ink-redible day. Two cross-country pen pals, who had been corresponding with one another since they were elementary school students in 1980, finally met for the first time in Wayne, Pennsylvania. “Only difference is now we’ve been in the same place at the same time,” Krystel Alston of Ontario, California, told ABC7 about … Read more
On Aug. 8, 2018, author Jillian Lauren entered B Block at the maximum security California State Prison in Los Angeles to meet Samuel Little, a serial killer thought to have murdered as many 93 women across 14 states between 1970 and 2005. Wheelchair-bound and suffering from diabetes and a heart condition, the 77-year-old inmate took Lauren by … Read more
These two 80-year-old pen pals were stationary for 68 years, but they finally found a way to meet. Patsy Gregory, from England, and Carol-Ann Krause, from New York, both 80, have been writing letters to each other from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean since they were both 12 in 1955. They discovered each other … Read more
One person’s cellmate is another person’s soulmate. A Swiss citizen reportedly has become engaged to a US prisoner after spending just three hours together. Kim Eichenberger, who hails from Gebenstorf, Switzerland, said she connected with William McCarty on WriteAPrisoner.com — a website facilitating pen pal relationships with American inmates. “I’ve always found criminals very interesting,” … Read more
Celesta Byrne and Geoff Banks have been across-the-pond pen pals for nearly 84 years — and recently celebrated their 100th birthdays with their first video call. The letter-writers — Byrne is American, currently living in Texas, and Banks is from the UK — began communicating in 1938 when they were just 16, sending their first … Read more