 While still married to Lazard, Steel met Danny Zugelder while interviewing an inmate in a prison near Lompoc, California, where Zugelder was also incarcerated.He moved in with Steel when he was paroled in June 1973, but returned to prison in early 1974 on robbery and rape charges.After receiving her divorce from Lazard in 1975, she married Zugelder in the prison canteen.