Gary M. Heidnik: Difference between revisions

Heidnik used a matrimonial service to meet his future wife, Betty Disto, with whom he corresponded by mail for two years before proposing to her. Disto arrived from the [[Philippines]] in September 1985 and married Heidnik in [[Maryland]] the following month, on October 3. The marriage rapidly deteriorated after she caught him abedin bed with a trio of other women. Throughout the course of their brief marriage, Heidnik forced his wife to be an onlooker while he performed intercourse with other women.<ref>{{cite book|last=Newton|first=Michael |title=The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers|edition=2|year=2006|publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]]|location=New York City|isbn=0-816-06987-5|page=114}}</ref> Disto also accused Heidnik of repeatedly [[rape|raping]] and assaulting her. With the help of the Filipino community in Philadelphia, she was able to leave Heidnik in January 1986.<ref name=time>{{cite magazine|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963945,00.html|title=House Of Horrors: Serial Murder in Philadelphia|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|publisher=[[Time, Inc.]]|location=New York City|date=April 6, 1987|access-date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> Unknown to Heidnik until his ex-wife requested [[child support]] payments in 1987, he had impregnated Disto during their short marriage. On September 15, 1986, she gave birth to a son, whom she named Jesse John Disto.<ref>Englade 1992, p. 75</ref>