 In 1952 Arthur J. Kleps married Beverly Jean Rahn (born 1934), but the marriage was annulled in 1954.He was married in 1959 to a student at Syracuse University; at the time they met he was working as a psychologist at a prison in Auburn, New York.Kleps earned a BS and Masters in Psychology from Syracuse and by 1959, began working as a psychologist at the Lynchburg Training School in Virginia.