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Lethal Witness: The Seven Men Aileen Wuornos Says Came for Her First
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Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along Florida highways — but who was the real predator? This chapter traces her Michigan childhood, her life with Tyria Moore, and the self-defense claims a jury dismissed but history won't let go.
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A Florida highway in November, nineteen eighty-nine. Late.
She was born in Rochester, Michigan, in February of nineteen fifty-six. Her father was a convicted child molester with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who never met her.
In nineteen eighty-six, Wuornos walked into the Zodiac, a gay bar in South Daytona. She was thirty years old.
Richard Mallory was the first. Killed in November of nineteen eighty-nine.
She was arrested in January of nineteen ninety-one. Police had been building the case for some time.
Wuornos was tried and convicted of six murders. During her trials she recanted the self-defense claims.
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield made two films about Wuornos, one before her execution and one after. His final interview with her, conducted shortly before she died, is the most unsettling document of her last period.
Aileen Wuornos is the one female serial killer that most people can name. That fact itself tells you something.
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