The House in the Photographs
“They want somebody who is not sentimental about it.”
Part Twenty-Five: A Crime Nobody Charges
Bigamy is a felony in Florida.
Third degree.
Up to five years.
The statute is old and short and it has not been substantially amended in a very long time, and prosecutions under it are extremely rare, and I want to explain why, because I spent four months being angry about it and the explanation eventually did most of the work of making me stop.
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