Aileen Wuornos
As prostitute serial killers go, no one receives more sympathy than
Aileen Wuornos. Is it because the movies were so good? She survived a childhood of incest, pre-teen pregnancy and abandonment. At 15, she lived in the woods, started thieving and fighting and wound up in Florida, where she married a 69-year-old yacht club owner whom she beat with his own cane. Between 1989 and 1990 Wuornos killed seven men, acts for which she received six death sentences. And though she claimed self-defense until the very end – the men were allegedly trying to rape her - all the media scrutiny, overblown publicity and back and forth eventually overwhelmed her, and she gave up, ready to die. Awaiting her lethal injection, she promised to return with Jesus on the mother ship on
Independence Day.
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