Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, «I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.» All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers – the killings of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film «Monster», this is her story in her own words.
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Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry-Dee. Monster
CONTENTS
‘YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY I KILLED?’
THE CIGARETTE BANDIT
THE ODD COUPLE
TYRIA JOLENE MOORE
RICHARD MALLORY
DAVID SPEARS
CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ CARSKADDON
PETER SIEMS
EUGENE ‘TROY’ BURRESS
CURTIS ‘CORKY’ REID
CHARLES ‘DICK’ HUMPHREYS
WALTER GINO ANTONIO
PARTING COMPANY
THE ARREST
AILEEN WUORNOS’S CONFESSION – IN HER OWN WORDS
THE EXECUTION
THE MOVIE
DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR
CHRONOLOGY OF DATES AND EVENTS
Copyright
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Dedicated to
Tatiana Dee nee Maksina
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What fascinated me above all of the other issues that interested me at the time was not so much why Wuornos had killed – by serial-murderer standards she was small fry with a mere seven, or as I believe eight, victims to her discredit – but why the world’s public and media had been whipped into such an all-consuming interest in this particular creature. There are scores of examples of this homicidal breed with higher body counts who are of far more interest in criminological terms, and who might be the focus of similar amounts of mass hysteria. What was the crowd pull for the Aileen Wuornos circus?
Already motion pictures (such as Monster and Overkill) have been produced which purport to portray the more gruesome segments of her life and crimes. Many TV documentaries concerning Wuornos have been screened around the world. Apart from Jack the Ripper, it is possible that more books have been written about her than any other criminal, or serial killer, who has ever lived. Even police officers, bombarded and tempted by movie consultancy fees totalling $2.5 million, risked their careers in an effort to hike a ride on the Wuornos bandwagon; at least one top cop had to resign.
