‘This was both a vulnerable misunderstood woman and a vicious driven serial killer.’ Making a Monster s1e6: Aileen Wuornos: The Damsel of Death, psychologist, CI 2020
On December 1st 1989 police in Florida discovered an abandoned vehicle belonging to a local man called Richard Mallery … He had been shot multiple times … The killer was a woman: a woman by the name of Aileen Wuornos. ibid.
‘In the space of a year she killed seven men … She was robbing her victims.’ ibid.
‘That extremely pleasurable release of anger and dominance.’ ibid.
She was caught abandoning a vehicle that had belonged to her final known victim, Walter Antonio. ibid.
I always wanted to be in the movies. When I was little I thought for sure one day I could be a big big star. Monster 2003 starring Charlize Theron & Christina Ricci & Bruce Dern & Lee Tergesen & Annie Corley & Pruitt Taylor Vince & Marco St John & Marc Macaulay & Scott Wilson & Kane Hodder & Brett Rice et al, director Patty Jenkins, Aileen Wuornos’ opening commentary
If that woman’s in here, so help me God. ibid. aunt
Just give me a week. You’ll never meet someone like me again. ibid. Aileen to lover
All you need is love and to believe in yourself. Nice idea. It doesn’t exactly work out that way. ibid.
I’ve been hooking since I was thirteen, man. Who the fuck am I kidding? I’m a hooker. ibid.
It’s like I feel like I never had a fucking choice. ibid.
Dear Dawn, I never wanted to kill but Satan had me run into [Richard] Mallory. Aileen Wuornos: Mind of a Monster, letter from Wuornos to friend Dawn Botkins, Discovery Plus 2020
I weigh my sins on the male domination of society. ibid.
It’ll just keep others from their cruelty in life. I know I’ll die from it, so to kill any more down the road as I look will only be the same as killing one. ibid.
1970: She passed out; he raped her, and she got pregnant … Her baby was adopted right away. She never got to see her child ... She had so much anger in her life. ibid. Dawn
Just do what you gotta do OK. All right? I’m not gonna let you go to jail. ibid. Aileen to Tyria
After confessing to seven killings Aileen Wuornos is charged with the murder of Richard Mallory. Mallory was her first victim and the only murder in Volusia County. It will be the first case brought to trial. ibid. captions
November 30th 1989, Central Florida: When a 51-year-old male picked up a prostitute from the side of the road he had no idea she would turn out to be a cold-blooded killer. In her mass-murder spree hardened killer Aileen Wuornos targeted middle-aged wealthy men with expensive cars. Eventually she was recorded confessing with the help of her girlfriend [Tyria Moore]. World’s Most Evil Killers s3e5: Aileen Wuornos, Sky Crime 2021
‘She was just utterly remorse; this was somebody who enjoyed watching men die.’ ibid. Dr Elizabeth Yardley
A host of petty crimes to maintain their extravagant lifestyle. The frequency of the crimes and the force Wuornos used to enact them was increasing. ibid.
This is the same gun being used in all these homicides. It’s a smaller weapon so it gives less kickback. So it could be that somebody either smaller or weaker might be using a .22. Catching Killers: Manhunter: Aileen Wuornos, rozzer, Netflix 2021
Police say that for the first time in criminal history these killers may be murdering with a feminine touch. ibid. television news
Tyria flipped and said she would help us get a confession out of Aileen. ibid. rozzer
From November 1989 to November 1990 seven men were murdered in central Florida. Aileen Wuornos, accused of all seven murders, only stood trial for the murder of one man, Richard Mallory, and was sentenced to death. Branded as America’s first female serial killer, her story gripped the nation. Snapped: Aileen Wuornos, captions, Sky Crime 2022
That having money would stop Ty from leaving her – I truly believe that was the driving force behind all these murders. ibid. biographer
But jurors did not hear that in 1957, he [Mallory] pleaded insanity to charges that he tried to rape a Maryland woman. ibid. post-trial newspaper article
Shortly after Aileen Wuornos’ 2002 execution, Jeb Bush won his re-election campaign as Governor of Florida. ibid. caption
WYERS, PRISCILLA: People Magazine Investigates TV -
In October 1975 Priscilla gives birth to her beautiful daughter Mary … Wayne [Wyers] moves in with Priscilla and her daughter Mary. People Magazine Investigates s6e2: My Mother’s Soldier, ID 2022
Priscilla tells deputies that she and Wayne had been fighting all weekend because she had lent Wayne’s Jeep to a friend and when Wayne got home he saw that his Jeep had been in a wreck. ibid.
‘I was beat up real bad … He tried to choke me hard … He had a knife … He was on top of me … He was trying to kill me … When the kids were asleep that’s when I shot him.’ ibid.
But Priscilla’s traumatising story of brutal domestic abuse does not line up with how she looks. ibid.
Priscilla changes her story … Deputies talk to 11-year-old Mary … The sheriff’s suspicion grows even more after watching Mary on TV … The kid didn’t know how to load the gun … 11-year-old Mary pulled the trigger … She [Priscilla] was manipulating Mary. ibid.
That night Priscilla pulled Mary out of bed to carry out an unthinkable plan. ibid.