A man wanted on a bigamy charge was arrested after a woman watching a popular &to=http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/359/14574_death.html' target=_blank>television show about the case saw his picture _ and recognized her sister's boyfriend.
"It was very upsetting," Linda Hembree told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The show's Monday episode featured two women who discovered they had been married to the same man, Charles Edward Hicks, at the same time.
Hicks, 61, was indicted on a bigamy charge last week and a warrant was issued for his arrest, Officer Christina Golden, a spokeswoman for the Chesapeake, Virginia, police, said Tuesday.
"I broke down and cried because the first picture they showed, I said to myself, 'That kind of looks like Ed,' but I really didn't pay a whole lot of attention," Hembree said. "But the second picture that came up, I said, 'Oh, dear God, that man is dating my sister.' I knew that that was him."
Hicks was arrested at the sister's home in Charlotte on Monday afternoon, said Julia Rush, a spokeswoman for the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office. He was held as a fugitive on $25,000 (Ђ20,965) bond pending an extradition hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.
Hembree, 57, called her sister, Barbara Grant, in Charlotte, as the story unfolded.
"She kept saying, 'What do you mean? What are you saying?"' Hembree said.
Hembree said her 54-year-old sister met Hicks through a Web site and they'd been dating for about eight months, and that Hembree had been visiting her sister for the past week. She said Hicks and her sister had discussed marriage.
"They had talked about it, and I told her to just kind of wait and just make sure because marriage is such a big step," Hembree said.
Hembree said Grant, whose first husband died of Hodgkins' disease more than 20 years ago and is divorced from her second husband, did not want to talk with reporters just yet about what happened.
Hembree said she and her sister are devastated.
"When he came to my home, he was just as nice as he could be, well-educated, well-mannered," Hembree said. "We sat and talked numerous times together. We thought a lot alike. And I respected him a lot, I really did. This is what is so very painful for me," reports AP.
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