Who was Tammi Saccoman’s previous husband Chuck? Man who gave then-wife permission to contact Erik Menendez

TAMMI Saccoman joined Erik Menendez 10 years into the beingness condemnation he's serving for sidesplitting his parents.

Here we get to cognize Tammi's erstwhile hubby Chuck Saccoman, who gave her support to constitute to the infamous murderer.

Who is Chuck Saccoman?

Chuck Saccoman was Tammi's hubby and lived with his woman and her teenage girl from a erstwhile relationship.

Not overmuch is publically known astir his aboriginal life, inheritance oregon profession.

However, his actions would yet person a profound interaction connected Tammi's beingness and pb her to Erik Menendez.

Connection to Erik Menendez

In 1993, portion inactive joined to Chuck Saccoman, Tammi began pursuing the highly publicized proceedings of the Menendez brothers.

She felt compassion for Erik Menendez and decided to constitute him a missive portion helium was incarcerated.

Interestingly, her erstwhile hubby gave Tammi support to interaction the convicted killer.

As Tammi recalled successful an interrogation with People: "I told [Chuck Saccoman] that I was going to constitute to Erik. He said to spell ahead."

Erik Menendez told the aforesaid publication: "I saw Tammi’s missive and I felt something.

"I received thousands of letters, but I acceptable this 1 aside. I got a feeling.

"And I wrote her back. Tammi and I continued to correspond. I enjoyed penning to her.

"It was a dilatory friendship. It was peculiar to maine due to the fact that it was not associated with the proceedings and the media.

"Tammi was idiosyncratic not successful the craziness."

Alleged assault

In 1996, a bid of horrific events unfolded that would alteration Tammi's beingness forever.

She discovered that her hubby had allegedly been sexually abusing her teenage daughter, starting erstwhile she was 15 years old.

Mr Saccoman turned himself successful to the police, but conscionable 2 days aft confessing to the authorities helium died by suicide.

At the clip of his death, Saccoman and Tammi shared a nine-month-old girl named Talia.

Profound impact

Saccoman's decease and the revelation of his alleged maltreatment had a profound interaction connected Tammi.

In her grief and turmoil, she reached retired to Erik Menendez, who had been responding to her letters.

Tammi told People: "I reached retired to Erik. He comforted me; our letters started taking connected a much superior tone."

Chuck's passing occurred successful June 1996, conscionable a period earlier Lyle and Erik Menendez were sentenced to beingness successful situation without parole.

Today, Tammi is known arsenic Tammi Menendez, having joined Erik successful situation successful 1999.

She has go an advocator for the Menendez brothers, co-parenting her girl Talia with Erik and maintaining their narration contempt the challenges of his incarceration.

In 2005, Menendez told People: "Tammi's emotion has propelled maine to go a amended person.

“I privation to beryllium the top imaginable hubby to her. And this affects the choices I marque each time successful prison.

“Tammi has taught maine however to beryllium a bully husband."

He added: "Tammi's emotion was a large measurement successful my choosing life.

"Having idiosyncratic who loves you unconditionally, who you tin beryllium wholly unfastened with, is bully for anybody — to cognize that this idiosyncratic loves maine arsenic I am."

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