Boise Woman Charged With Felony Bigamy

At 26, Shirley Dorsey has led a busy domestic life. She has been married five times and divorced at least twice.

It is the timing of those marriages that interests Boise County officials.

The county has charged Dorsey with felony bigamy, punishable by a maximum fine of $2,000 and up to three years in prison.

Boise County alleges that she married Dan Dorsey in Idaho City on Nov. 3, 1992, while already legally married to Brian Hansen, whom she wed July 14, 1990.

According to Boise County, she did not divorce Hansen until March 31, 1994.

Dorsey will be arraigned before Judge George Carey in Fourth District Court at 10 a.m. Oct. 6 in Idaho City. She already has been arraigned in magistrate’s court.

Records in Ada County - where the marriage licenses were obtained - seem to indicate Dorsey has done this before. But she is being prosecuted in only one case.