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Kimberly Baldwin

Something that I noticed when I was doing this case was how often it seems that women, especially if they were the perpetrator of a crime against a spouse, seemingly no longer carry the man's surname. I do not just mean when they are simply telling the story in the media but I would assume that names used within the prison system are their legal names and I almost always find them under those names. For example, Baldwin is apparently Kimberly's maiden name. It also does not appear that she and Frank Parker were divorced for very long before his murder in February of 2002. Nor is Baldwin the surname of Kimberly's previous ex-husband. Of course women can always legally take back their married name after a divorce but I always believed that to be less common, especially when there were children involved than it seems to be. In my own previous divorce I had it granted in which I could hyphenate my name with my maiden name and married name. While it was granted by t...