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This January 2005 image from video from WFSB-TV of Hartford, Conn., shows Susan Powers outside the Rockville Superior Court in Rockville, Conn. In Oklahoma, Powers is known as a bright mathematician who created a Web site for a group that cared for abused animals. In Connecticut, she is the mysterious woman who became romantically involved with serial killer and rapist Michael Ross. She frequently travels across the country to see Ross on death row and promisedto marry him and move closer if he will fight his execution. Ross, who has confessed to raping and killing women in New York and Connecticut in the early 1980s, agreed last year to drop his appeals. His execution, scheduled for May 11, would be the first in New England in 45 years. But love is complicating the matter now that he and Powers have rekindled a romance. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/WFSB-TV)