THE EX-wife of American serial killer Richard Evonitz has spoken out about being married to the monster.
Bonnie Lou Gower married Richard Evonitz when she was just 17 – but after they divorced she learned through FBI he killed at least three teenagers.
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Evidence found by police in his apartment linked Navy veteran Evonitz to the kidnappings and murders of three girlsKati Lisk, 12, Kristin Lisk, 15, and Sofia Silva, 16.
He was eventually caught after kidnapping 15-year-old Kara Robinson, who bravely managed to escape and helped police track him down.
In a clip that has garnered more than 10 million views, ex-wife Bonnie bravely revealed details about her nightmare.
NIGHTMARE BEAT
In it @bonnielouwriter account, she told how they divorced when she was 25 and she remarried and had two children.
Five years later, the FBI showed up at her door and told her that her first husband, Evonitz, was a serial killer.
Bonnie shockingly discovered that he even killed a girl while she was married to him – and it didn’t end there.
She added of her story: “20 years later you found out he was killing people before you even got married and it continued throughout your life. married.”
On a accompanying clipshe told how they got married in August 1988, after being introduced by his sister, with whom she was friends, and they moved to Maine.
Bonnie revealed: “Everything was fine at first. Honestly, I was happy to get married.
“I had a probably immature fantasy about what married life meant, but I was happy to be there with him.”
Bonnie shared how Evonitz quickly took charge and let her know what her responsibilities should be “as his wife.”
She continued: “I was expected to clean the house, take care of all the cookingand take care of all household chores.
“Since I was in the military, he also taught me how to wash uniforms well and straighten out all the creases.
“I took it all in and I worked really hard to please him because, you know, I loved him and I wanted to make him happy.
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“But things started to change.”
FAT SHAME BULLY
Bonnie told how he started teasing her about her weight after she gained 10 pounds, and cruelly called her “fat” and told her to “join Weight Watchers.”
She said: “If I cheated on my diet, he would tell me I would end up fat like my mother and that I needed to get back on my program.
“Up until this point, I felt really good about things in general.
20 years later, you discovered that he was killing people before you were even married and continued throughout your marriage.
Bonnie Lou Gower
“But as time passed, I began to regret my choice to get married.
“Despite this, I made a commitment and believed in that commitment. I believed in marriage, that it is forever and that you need to work on it.
Who were Richard Evonitz’s victims?
EVIDENCE found by police in his apartment linked Evonitz to the kidnappings and murders of three girls besides Kara – Kati Lisk, 12, Kristin Lisk, 15, and 16-year-old Sofia Silva.
Sofia Silva
Sofia Silva, whose ambition was to attend cosmetology school, was sitting on her family’s doorstep doing homework when Evonitz abducted her on September 9, 1996.
His older sister was inside the house but didn’t hear anything, according to the New York Daily News.
Police initially treated the case as a missing person case until Silva was found dead in a swamp about five weeks later.
Kati Lisk and Kirsten Lisk
The Lisk sisters were kidnapped by Evonitz from their garden on May 1, 1997.
Kirstin was finishing her freshman year of high school and enjoyed playing soccer, while Kati enjoyed drawing and playing the clarinet.
Their bodies were found a few days later, dumped in a nearby river, with investigators suspecting the murders were linked to Silva’s.
Kara Robinson
On June 24, 2002, Kara Robinson was kidnapped by Evonitz from her friend’s garden in broad daylight.
But she heroically escaped while the killer slept the next morning, leading police to the killer.
“A lot of people told me I was too young to get married at the time and I was determined to prove them wrong.
“The wedding was definitely not what I thought it would be.”
Bonnie described the first year as “rocky” and Evonitz forbade her from sharing her problems with others.
She added: “At this point I was 18 and there with no friends or family around.
“This was before cell phones, the internet or email and long-distance calls were expensive.
“He really limited the amount of money I was able to spend it on calls to my family. “Having no friends or anyone to talk to about my relationship, I didn’t know how different it was from a regular marriage.
“I didn’t have anyone to argue with and figure out what was normal, which I think was probably exactly what he wanted.”
Bonnie is now an author and claims to have written a book about her marriage and is looking for a publisher.
OVERCOME BY A TEENAGER
Evonitz’s chilling story characteristics in the true crime thriller The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story.
It details how, in 2002, Kara was watering flowers alone in her friend’s front yard in the middle of the day when a man pulled into the driveway.
The stranger asked 15-year-old Kara if he could give her some magazines.
“He leaned over to hand them to me,” she recalled in the two-hour documentary.
“As he leaned in, I felt a red flag somewhere in my head, and at the same time I felt that red flag, I felt a gun pressed to the side of my neck.
If I cheated on my diet, he would tell me that I would end up fat like my mother and that I needed to get back on my schedule.
Bonnie Lou Gower
Kara remembered how she studied everything about her kidnapper and his belongings as she lay in his room with her hands and ankles tied.
“I can’t explain where it came from, there was just a voice that said my options were to do as I was told and run and survive or panic, fight and maybe die,” she said.
“So I tried my best to remain as calm as possible for as long as possible.”
At one point, Kara remembered that there was a gun nearby, but thought twice before trying to grab it – realizing that “there was little chance of me winning that fight”.
O next In the morning, while her captor slept in a bed next to her, Kara managed to free herself from her restraints and ran out of the house.
Outside, she was able to flag down a car and had the two men in the vehicle take her to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.
Kara was held captive by the killer for a total of 18 hours.
Looking back, the mother of two said her story was one of hope.
“Even in the negative things that happen to us, we can choose whether this is something that will define us or whether it is something that will refine us,” she said.
“It’s about choosing your path to follow, taking that power back in your own hands and getting your life back.”
Evonitz fled to Florida after realizing Kara had escaped his clutches.
But her testimony meant police were able to track him down.
After he was surrounded by the law During a chase, Evonitz committed suicide at age 38 on June 27, 2002.
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