A British mum who has never met the fiancé she agreed to marry two months after first reading his “beautiful” letters and poetry is planning their wedding next year 3,560 miles away in a US prison where he is serving between 20 and 40 years for his part in a brutal murder.
Laura O’Sullivan, 32, has known Terrell Ravon Reese, 31, since October 2021, when she used the JPay app for prisoners to find a pen pal – leading to a whirlwind romance. Thrilled when he proposed last December by phone from a Michigan jail, Laura, a single mum-of-four, from Bristol, said: “I thought it was friggin’ nuts, friggin’ crazy, but I couldn’t control my feelings and stop my heart. He’s all I have ever wanted.”
Convicted for his part in the murder of Justin Solomon, 19, in Detroit, Michigan, on August 1, 2009, Terrell told the deceased he would sell him a car, but instead planned to rob him with another unidentified male. Moments after Justin arrived with a friend, the other man appeared holding an AK-47, saying ‘Don’t nobody move,’ and repeatedly shot and killed him.
