When they found her, she confessed, not just to one killing, but to several. One after another, men across central Florida were turning up dead.
She claimed she was defending herself and that every man had tried to assault her, that she’d been fighting for her life.
“I’m not a man-hater,” she told the Orlando Sentinel in March 1991. “I’ve been through so many traumatic experiences that either I’m walking in shock or I’m so used to being treated like dirt that I guess it’s become a way of life.”
“Damsel of Death”
But prosecutors saw something different: a cold, calculating murderer who lured men in, killed them, and stole their belongings.
By the time her case went to trial, she was accused of killing seven men in just one year. The press called her “America’s first female serial killer.”
Her name has become infamous ever since, her story retold in books, documentaries, and even Hollywood films.
She was Aileen Wuornos — the “Damsel of Death.Continue reading…
