I killed a few people in a town.. then I decided to try to make amends. I bought some properties and set them to low rent/price. Then I tried to make friends with a few of the townspeople. One thing led to another and before I knew it, I became married to one of these townspeople. Most of the townspeople still hate me, and my wife keeps bringing up the murders in my past, particularly during sex (which is quite the mood killer).
Is there anyway to get my wife (and the townspeople) to forgive me of my past crimes?
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This thread suggests that what you need is to get in-game time to pass and to advance the story further, if you can. (There is a mention of 8 in-game days, but no source to support it.) It may also help to do good deeds along the way. You should be able to measure success in the same way you've noted a lack of success so far: as story time and in-game time passes, people should be referring to you as less of a jerk (and murderer) and more of a nice guy as far as murderers go. Eventually, your crime spree will be a thing of the past.
To make this less of a problem in the future, you might consider killing people in front of a smaller audience ... perhaps an audience of none? Dead NPCs, as they say, tell no tales.