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Article: Officials can't explain Kentucky's bigamy rate.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 19, 2002
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LEXINGTON, Ky. _ More bigamy charges are filed in Kentucky than in 11 other states that also track the crime, according to court officials across the country.
Twenty-five to 35 cases of bigamy have been reported each year since 2000. And a third man pleaded guilty last year to being married to more than one person at the same time.
"It's like opening a cereal box thinking you're getting cereal and you get an egg roll," said Gretchen Tribble of Lexington, Ky., who filed bigamy charges in June against Lawrence Gilbert, an old high school chum she married in October 2001. Lawrence Gilbert has not been arrested yet and court records indicate that he has ...