This is sick...hiring a publicist to make money from other people's tragedy...From the BBC:
Death row Scot takes on publicist
Kenny Richey has spent 18 years on death row in Ohio
PR guru Max Clifford has said he will represent Kenny Richey if and when he is released from death row in the US.
Worldwide media interest is likely if the 40-year-old, who was brought up in Edinburgh, walks free this autumn after 18 years on death row.
Mr Clifford has helped publicise such high profile media stories as kiss and tell claims about David Beckham and the pregnancy of Cherie Blair.
He said he had been approached by Richey's fiancée, Karen Torley.
Death sentence
Mr Clifford said that Ms Torley, from South Lanarkshire, had asked him to help the couple deal with the expected public interest in his possible release.
An appeal court in America ruled that Richey must either be retried or freed because legal representation at his trial in 1987 was incompetent.
Two weeks ago, prosecutors were told they must secure a retrial before 14 August or Richey be freed after 18 years under a death sentence.
Richey, who lived in Edinburgh until 1982, was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing his former girlfriend's two-year-old daughter, Cynthia Collins.
He was found guilty of starting a fire at the toddler's mother's apartment in the town of Columbus Grove, Ohio, in 1986.
Karen Torley made the approach to Max Clifford
Richey, who grew up near Edinburgh Castle, went to Ohio in the 1980s to stay with his father.
On the evening of 29 June 1986, he had been at a party before the fire broke out at a nearby apartment block.
Two-year-old Cynthia was trapped in her bedroom and died from smoke inhalation.
Richey was arrested and convicted of using petrol and paint thinner to start the fire.
The court was told that Richey acted out of jealousy in an attempt to kill a former girlfriend, who was asleep with her new boyfriend in the apartment below the one that burned.
But in 1997 two witnesses who had claimed that Richey previously threatened to burn down the apartment retracted their statements.
Recent forensic evidence cast doubt on whether the fire was started deliberately at all.