Lucy Hale

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(10-16-2015 06:12 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  What do you (forum members) think - did JWB seriously love Lucy Hale and take fiancee"ship" serious (would he have married her?), did he just/mainly (intend to) "use" her respectively her status, was it somewhere in between - or one "along the way"?
Thanks for your thoughts!

(10-16-2015 08:34 PM)Sally Wrote:  But I don’t believe he loved her, and certainly he never intended to marry her. He was already plotting to (at the very least) kidnap the President before he met her. If all had gone as he’d hoped, did he intend to take Lucy with him to Mexico, or wherever he’d planned to escape? That seems unlikely. A new bride would have severely slowed his progress.

I doubt he was really serious with Lucy. I think we should include Ella Starr Turner in the mix of women whom Booth may/may not have loved. As far as I know she is the only one of "Booth's women" to make a suicide attempt once it was learned Booth was the assassin. She took chloroform but was saved. Booth's picture was found hidden under the pillow of her bed. Harry Hawk said Booth was "infatuated with a woman named Ella Turner." Ella wrote a note to Booth which said, "My darling Boy, Please call this evening or as soon as you receive this note & I'll not detain you five minutes - for god's sake come." This note was found in Booth's trunk. Like Lucy Hale, she was never called to testify although there were indications he spent a lot of time with her. Despite the fact that Ella was a prostitute, IMO the evidence shows that the relationship goes much beyond a typical prostitute/client relationship.