Serial bigamist Oliver Killeen has been convicted of bigamy in Toronto, Canada after marrying 19 women without getting a divorce.
In 2005, Killeen, now 75-years-old, served an 18 month prison sentence, also for bigamy, in London. The Mayo News reports that most of his marriages took place in England during the 1980s and 90s. However, he was also based in Waterford.\
Killeen plead guilty to one count of bigamy in 1978 when he married Barbara Daniels. He’s now set to serve a 90-day sentence which he will only serve at weekends.
He once boasted to a Toronto Star reporter, “When you’re as good as me, they can’t (keep away)…They say they’re hypnotized. And that is true.”
The man dubbed the “Irish Casanova” once told the Daily Mail, “Conning women is easy…I studied psychology and behavior patterns. I presented myself as a dashing, suave sort of guy and women fell for it.”
According to reports in the Toronto Sun, he told the Ontario Court Justine John Moore, “I regret the mess I find myself in.”
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Killeen married Daniels in 1978, even though he was already legally married. In court, Daniels told of her seven years in “hell” married to Killeen. She said he was verbally abusive and constantly wrote bad checks. Between 1971 and 1977 he amassed 54 false pretense convictions.
“It was hell what I went through, just pure hell,” said Daniels, a 70-year-old nurse in Ottawa, said.
“The hurt he’s left in his wake is devastating. But there’s nothing about what he did to anyone else. It’s all about him.”
In 1985 she finally left him. She was shocked to find that she could not file for a divorce as Killeen was still married to Agnes Clooney who he had married in 1974.
Daniels said, “Women are commodities to him.”
During the 1990s, Killeen established himself as a celebrity psychologist in Ireland. He had his own TV show, a syndicated column, and three radio shows before being found out while giving “expert” evidence in court. He then fled to London.
The Ontario prosecutor said that the Mayo man’s age, his guilty pleas, and other mitigating factors were being considered in relation to his sentencing.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.Brolaur | Mar 10, 2012, 11:18 AM EST
Still waing for an answer. Does anybody know if he managed FRANZ restaurant in Toronto?
like2tweet | Mar 08, 2012, 07:26 AM EST
here comes my 19h nervous breakdown
Brolaur | Mar 08, 2012, 06:19 AM EST
Did this Oliver Killeen ever manage Franz restaurant, on Yonge street, in Toronto?
Curitiba | Mar 07, 2012, 05:46 PM EST
"Kileen, now 75 years old..." That's probably not his real age, that's probably how old he looks after 19 wives. I imagine his real age is 35.
canadianirish | Mar 07, 2012, 05:08 PM EST
"When you're as good as me, they can't keep away"...omg, gag me! I would advise Mr. Kileen to take a look in the mirror...he's one homely guy!...ew, I shudder! Can't imagine any woman wanting to be with that..still gagging!
PatriciaMarya | Mar 07, 2012, 02:36 PM EST
Oh badolan - you said it so correctly! The abs are in there alright, just hiding behind all of that tummy blubber! chengisk - It can only be considered polygamy if all of the 19 women knew each other and lived under the same roof! They would then be called "sister wives" and with all of those eyes keeping an "eye" on the family finances, there would be no way for him to get away with check kiting.
faberm1 | Mar 07, 2012, 02:34 PM EST
He's just lucky he didn't live in Texas. Some ole gal would have neutered him a long time ago.
GeorgeDillon | Mar 07, 2012, 02:19 PM EST
yrrab24 | Mar 07, 2012, 10:56 AM EST "Remind me again why it is the governments business who and how many I marry?" You make a good point. Now that governments, be they state or national, are withdrawing restrictions on who can marry, it is quite ludicrous that anti bigamy laws should remain unreformed. I can see that property questions may enter into it, but a simple reform would be to say that the first married is the one who has inheritance rights. Government should stay out of the bedroom.
badolan | Mar 07, 2012, 01:33 PM EST
No wonder the women can't stay away from him. What a hottie! Just check out those abs.
muirisobric | Mar 07, 2012, 12:11 PM EST
Ah, Sweeney Todd ú have it right. A glutton he must be. For surely one is hard enough. No time fora cupa tea.
DaithiSuibhne | Mar 07, 2012, 11:49 AM EST
Any man can have 'Issues' with just one wife, I can't imagine what this lad has gone through, he must be a glutton for punishment. Probably needs some professional help, don't you think?
timmy45 | Mar 07, 2012, 11:19 AM EST
His '' 19th' Nervous Breakdown , he must be fond of wedding cake , one is too many but for effs sake, 19 ?
chengisk | Mar 07, 2012, 10:58 AM EST
SInce when is 19 "Bi"gamy. He must to be charged for polygamy, charged 18 times for it and must pay restitution to all the 19 women.
yrrab24 | Mar 07, 2012, 10:56 AM EST
Remind me again why it is the governments business who and how many I marry?
donal1951 | Mar 07, 2012, 10:54 AM EST
@Murph46. You've got that right, mate.
SeamusMor | Mar 07, 2012, 10:30 AM EST
"Bigamy is having one wife too many; so is monogamy!"--Oscar Wilde
AengusOg | Mar 07, 2012, 09:45 AM EST
Kileen was quoted as saying, "Once I topped 13, I thought I was home free." His sex appeal comes from being a Mayo man. It's all we can do to keep the girls a bay with our stout shillelaghs. It was his time in the UK that corrupted him.