Phil Perry said he's devastated.
"I feel for the families (of the victims). If I could take their pain away, I would. I wish and I pray they'll be able to find strength to get through this."
"I made it" Leanna Perry calls her husband of eight years a master manipulator who led a double life. She had no knowledge of his crimes, she said.
The two met in Ohio as employees of an engineering company. At the time, she had a young daughter from a prior relationship. The two went on to have a daughter together.
For a time, James Perry appeared to have turned his life around.
On a national Web site that helps alumni reconnect, Perry recently boasted to former classmates at Franklin High School that times were good.
"For those who are curious, I made it," he wrote in a mini-biography that appears on the web site. "I'm happily married with two beautiful girls. I currently live in Wisconsin. I'm a foreman for a cellular company."
Perry traveled frequently for his job as a crew leader with National Tower Service of Madison. Josh Winterburn, his supervisor, said there was nothing suspicious about Perry's work habits. "I'm completely beside myself to think anything like that was possible," Winterburn said.
Perry duped others, too. Jody Gennrich, who has known Leanna Perry for four years and works with her at The Registry in Madison, said she viewed James Perry as a caring father. "It's exactly as if there were two different people."
At Wednesday's sentencing and in media interviews, Leanna Perry has sought the maximum punishment for her husband and wished him dead. She has apologized publicly to his victims, although she said in an interview that she must, at some point, distance herself from his actions.
Article comments
1 - RJ
This is some of the sickest shit I've ever heard. Why don't we have the death penalty for scum like this?
2 - Eric Olsen
I am opposed to the death penalty but am in favor of severe measures like the sexual disabling of repeat sex offenders, including prison rapists