Yigal Amir

I watched a fascinating interview today with the wife of Yigal Amir, the murderer of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Her name is Larissa Trimbobler, and when she met Amir she was married to another man with whom she had four children. Larissa and her husband met Yigal Amir when they visited him in jail where he was serving a life sentence for assassinating Rabin.

Larissa dropped her husband and the father of her children and embarked on a long saga of trying to marry the jailed assassin. Then, she tried to get pregnant by him, which involved Amir trying to smuggle ziplock bags of sperm out of the jail. She did get pregnant and gave birth to Amir’s child at the age of forty. And she’s been waiting for him to get released (which isn’t too likely) ever since then.

Isn’t it a crazy story? If it were a novel, people would dismiss it as being too over the top but it’s completely real.