Maybe I'm just lazy or I lack initiative, but if I were going to commit a crime,
I don't think it would be bigamy. Trying to juggle that many secret lives just takes way too much effort, you know? I'm
just saying.
Anyway, a man who appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil was arrested recently for bigamy. Charles Edward Hicks had been married seven times in forty years. The show focused on two women who had learned recently they had both been married to Hicks. What Hicks didn't count on was that the sister of his girlfriend was watching the show and called authorities. He'll be sentenced on May 8 and could face as much as ten years in prison.
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3-05-2006 @ 5:27PM
Jol said...
Ed Hicks did not appear on Dr. Phil by choice. He was stalked by a camera crew as he walked to his car.
I work with one of his many wives and what he did was horrible, but he wasn't stupid enough to agree to be on a national TV show. It is true that his current victim's sister saw the show and luckily saved her before it was too late.
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