Besotted woman reveals she is to marry Death Row serial killer who slaughtered four
A BESOTTED woman has revealed she is to marry a notorious Death Row serial killer who slaughtered four people in a 10 day shooting spree.
Mass murderer Nikko Jenkins terrorised Omaha, Nebraska, in August 2013 and then cut off his own penis in a bid to claim insanity when caught.
Judges were later told he needed dozens of stitches after mutilating himself while awaiting trial behind bars.
He also sliced his tongue to resemble a snake and tattooed 666 – the number of the devil – onto his head.
However, despite his horrific history he has now apparently found love after a 46-year-old Texas woman revealed she is to tie the knot with the fiend.
To mark the news Jenkins has had the name of his new fiancee – Dawn Arguello – inked onto his well-tattooed face.
“I was very (ticked) off that he did that,” she said. “He doesn’t need to be self-mutilating like that.”
She also moaned she isn’t happy about the way her husband-to-be has been portrayed in the American press.
“If you believe the media,” she said, “he’s the most hated man in Nebraska besides Charles Starkweather.”
The reference was to the 1950s serial killer of 11 people whose story inspired several movies, including ‘Badlands’ in 1973 and ‘Natural Born Killers’ in 1994.
“He’s not what the media has made him out to be,” she told the World-Herald. “He’s an enigma. He has feelings. He’s very sensitive.”
“He’s very intelligent,” she added.
Arguello met Jenkins, now 35, while doing volunteer work for a non-profit organisation which advocates for death-row inmates and their families.
After pleading no contest in 2014, tattooed Jenkins’ defence insisted he should get a more lenient sentence because his self-harm was evidence of psychosis.
But after lengthy assessments a panel of three judges ruled that he knew right from wrong when he slayed his four victims.
Just 11 days after being released from a 10-year stretch in prison for carjacking, Jenkins shot and killed Juan Uribe-Pena and Jorge Cajiga-Ruizon on August 11.
Eight days later he killed former friend Curtis Bradford, and on August 21 he killed Andrea Kruger after pulling her from her SUV and shooting her four times.
Jenkins planned the killings to cover up robberies of the victims or to keep them from identifying him, prosecutors argued.
“Each one of these murders was a planned and deliberate act,” said Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon.
But Jenkins insisted the Egyptian serpent god Apophis had told him to make “human sacrifices”.
State psychiatrists repeatedly testified during the case that he was faking psychosis.
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Nebraska lawmakers abolished capital punishment in 2015, but it was overturned in a public ballot a year later.
The last execution in Nebraska was carried out in 1997, when Robert Williams was sentenced to death by electric chair for killing two women in 1977.
As well as the death sentence, which under state law will automatically be appealed, Jenkins was handed at least 450 years for a dozen weapons counts.
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