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They lied so bad to you all. 4 00:00:18,375 --> 00:00:21,415 Reporter: You killed seven men, seven strangers. 5 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:23,170 Does that not make you a serial killer? 6 00:00:23,250 --> 00:00:25,670 Wuornos: I didn't kill them every day, did I? 7 00:00:25,751 --> 00:00:35,631 ?? 8 00:00:35,709 --> 00:00:45,459 ?? 9 00:00:45,542 --> 00:00:47,502 Welcome to "very scary people." 10 00:00:47,584 --> 00:00:49,044 I'm Donnie wahlberg. 11 00:00:49,125 --> 00:00:52,915 Between December of 1989 and November 1990, 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,330 Aileen Wuornos unleashed her rage on the state of Florida, 13 00:00:57,417 --> 00:00:59,877 brutally gunning down seven victims. 14 00:00:59,959 --> 00:01:02,999 Wuornos' childhood was the stuff of nightmares. 15 00:01:03,083 --> 00:01:05,543 Her father was a convicted sex offender. 16 00:01:05,626 --> 00:01:08,076 She was abandoned by her mother as an infant, 17 00:01:08,167 --> 00:01:10,127 and she was raised by her grandparents 18 00:01:10,209 --> 00:01:12,669 in an allegedly abusive household. 19 00:01:12,751 --> 00:01:15,131 Then at age 12, she was raped. 20 00:01:15,209 --> 00:01:17,749 Wuornos said she was not born bad. 21 00:01:17,834 --> 00:01:19,834 Was this hellish start to her life 22 00:01:19,918 --> 00:01:22,998 the reason she turned into an angry, violent killer? 23 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:26,463 How would this cold-blooded murderer finally be stopped? 24 00:01:26,542 --> 00:01:29,462 This is part 2 of "monster made." 25 00:01:29,542 --> 00:01:37,832 ?? 26 00:01:37,918 --> 00:01:40,458 Chung: How would you describe Aileen Wuornos? 27 00:01:40,542 --> 00:01:45,792 She is probably as cold a person is I've ever met. 28 00:01:45,876 --> 00:01:48,416 Aileen Wuornos was living in Florida. 29 00:01:50,375 --> 00:01:55,535 She was making her living as a prostitute 30 00:01:55,626 --> 00:02:02,956 on interstate exits and entrances in central Florida. 31 00:02:03,042 --> 00:02:05,882 She was in a relationship with tyria Moore. 32 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,080 And she falls in love. 33 00:02:08,167 --> 00:02:10,787 Then in 1989, something changed. 34 00:02:10,876 --> 00:02:13,246 Something happened. 35 00:02:13,334 --> 00:02:16,584 She became a killer. 36 00:02:16,667 --> 00:02:19,497 Aileen Wuornos' first victim was Richard Mallory. 37 00:02:19,584 --> 00:02:22,214 Then David Spears and Charles carskaddon. 38 00:02:22,292 --> 00:02:23,962 - Peter siems. - Troy burress. 39 00:02:24,042 --> 00:02:27,882 - Richard Humphreys. - And Walter jeno Antonio. 40 00:02:27,959 --> 00:02:31,129 The victims were all white and older males. 41 00:02:31,209 --> 00:02:34,249 Reporter: Bodies were found on rural roads near the interstate. 42 00:02:34,334 --> 00:02:35,674 She actually drove away 43 00:02:35,751 --> 00:02:37,791 every victim's vehicle from the crime scene. 44 00:02:37,876 --> 00:02:39,746 There were also additional items taken, 45 00:02:39,834 --> 00:02:43,044 and those would be her trophies and her souvenirs. 46 00:02:45,125 --> 00:02:48,575 It just took a long time to link these cases together. 47 00:02:48,667 --> 00:02:50,497 Jarvis: I can remember sitting there thinking, 48 00:02:50,584 --> 00:02:52,294 "how come we're not coming up with anything?" 49 00:02:52,375 --> 00:02:55,535 They were needing a break, and they didn't realize 50 00:02:55,626 --> 00:02:59,826 that the break had already happened back in July. 51 00:02:59,918 --> 00:03:01,958 Taylor: Back in July, there was a car crash 52 00:03:02,042 --> 00:03:03,832 in orange Springs, Florida. 53 00:03:03,918 --> 00:03:07,418 That involved a car that belonged to Peter siems. 54 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:10,670 Jarvis: Aileen and tyria were on their way over to Daytona beach. 55 00:03:10,751 --> 00:03:12,751 Car goes off the side of the road. 56 00:03:12,834 --> 00:03:15,884 She told tyria that they needed to leave immediately 57 00:03:15,959 --> 00:03:20,499 because this was a dead man's car. 58 00:03:20,584 --> 00:03:23,174 Taylor: So the witnesses see this car crash, 59 00:03:23,250 --> 00:03:26,670 and two composites were generated. 60 00:03:26,751 --> 00:03:28,421 So let's put it out there. 61 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:35,130 ?? 62 00:03:35,209 --> 00:03:36,709 Once she made her second kill, 63 00:03:36,792 --> 00:03:40,422 her third kill, her fourth kill, Aileen felt more confident. 64 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:42,250 She feels comfortable she's doing enough 65 00:03:42,334 --> 00:03:43,924 to get away with the crimes, 66 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,790 but when we release the composites, 67 00:03:45,876 --> 00:03:47,166 and when we put that out there, 68 00:03:47,250 --> 00:03:49,920 I believe that came as quite a shock to her. 69 00:03:51,667 --> 00:03:54,167 When the sketches came out, tyria freaked. 70 00:04:02,876 --> 00:04:04,746 She saw the sketches, 71 00:04:04,834 --> 00:04:06,214 and it actually looked more like tyria 72 00:04:06,292 --> 00:04:08,382 than it did look like Aileen. 73 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,080 Tyria Moore has stated that Aileen told her 74 00:04:24,167 --> 00:04:25,667 what she had done. 75 00:04:25,751 --> 00:04:30,331 Now, tyria says she was never at the scenes of the killings. 76 00:04:30,417 --> 00:04:34,287 Reynolds: In a certain sense, I think tyria was like a mafia wife. 77 00:04:34,375 --> 00:04:39,665 She knew, but she didn't want to know what was going on. 78 00:04:39,751 --> 00:04:41,421 I mean, all the evidence was there, 79 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:45,750 but as long as it was not spoken out loud, 80 00:04:45,834 --> 00:04:49,174 then we'll just go along with how things are, 81 00:04:49,250 --> 00:04:51,880 and that worked okay up until the point 82 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:58,290 where Ty recognized herself in a sketch along with Lee, 83 00:04:58,375 --> 00:05:01,245 and that was one step too far. 84 00:05:03,834 --> 00:05:05,924 And that's when they split up. 85 00:05:12,918 --> 00:05:16,128 So tyria went back up north where she had family. 86 00:05:16,209 --> 00:05:19,749 And now, Aileen is without the love of her life 87 00:05:19,834 --> 00:05:24,384 to run on her own, but the noose is getting closer. 88 00:05:24,459 --> 00:05:27,039 Reporter: Police are looking for these two women for questioning. 89 00:05:27,125 --> 00:05:30,575 Kassewitz: Meanwhile, those sketches are bringing in hundreds of tips, 90 00:05:30,667 --> 00:05:35,127 - hundreds of phone calls. - The tips that came in, 91 00:05:35,209 --> 00:05:39,829 in this investigation begin to focus over in Daytona, 92 00:05:39,918 --> 00:05:42,668 and knowing that we had a list of property 93 00:05:42,751 --> 00:05:45,581 from these victims that was missing, 94 00:05:45,667 --> 00:05:50,167 we then began a very intensive effort to visit pawn shops 95 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:53,460 to see if we could identify any of these items 96 00:05:53,542 --> 00:05:54,962 that could've been pawned, 97 00:05:55,042 --> 00:05:57,132 and it was during that investigation 98 00:05:57,209 --> 00:06:00,249 that some items had been located at a pawn shop. 99 00:06:00,334 --> 00:06:03,504 There was a radar detector and a camera 100 00:06:03,584 --> 00:06:08,884 that had been stolen out of Richard Mallory's vehicle 101 00:06:08,959 --> 00:06:14,919 - when he was murdered. - And they find a pawn ticket 102 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,920 for Richard Mallory's radar detector and his camera, 103 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,380 and there's a thumbprint. 104 00:06:21,459 --> 00:06:24,249 Taylor: Florida, back then, had just passed a law 105 00:06:24,334 --> 00:06:26,754 as to where any pawn transaction 106 00:06:26,834 --> 00:06:31,424 had to bear a fingerprint of the person making the transaction. 107 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:35,000 So there was a thumbprint and the name cammie Greene, 108 00:06:35,083 --> 00:06:36,633 that they thought this was an alias 109 00:06:36,709 --> 00:06:39,919 and wanted to see if they could find out the actual name. 110 00:06:41,792 --> 00:06:45,002 On December 21, 1990, 111 00:06:45,083 --> 00:06:47,383 investigators came to the Florida department 112 00:06:47,459 --> 00:06:49,289 of law enforcement crime lab. 113 00:06:49,375 --> 00:06:51,625 We had run it through the automated fingerprint 114 00:06:51,709 --> 00:06:55,289 identification system, and we did not make a match. 115 00:06:55,375 --> 00:06:57,915 So I had told the investigators 116 00:06:58,042 --> 00:07:00,252 that we could do a manual search, 117 00:07:00,334 --> 00:07:05,674 looking at cards one by one by one to see if we could find her. 118 00:07:05,751 --> 00:07:10,671 It's like a one in a billion chances, but we would try. 119 00:07:10,751 --> 00:07:13,751 We were thinking we were going to have to physically look 120 00:07:13,834 --> 00:07:18,964 at every single thumbprint on every single card. 121 00:07:19,042 --> 00:07:23,132 I took out one stack and started flipping through it, 122 00:07:23,209 --> 00:07:28,829 and in less than 15 minutes, we identified her. 123 00:07:28,918 --> 00:07:31,038 We were screaming and hollering and jumping up and down 124 00:07:31,125 --> 00:07:34,455 because we still could not believe we had done this. 125 00:07:34,542 --> 00:07:37,132 Then the investigators were able to pull a mug shot, 126 00:07:37,209 --> 00:07:40,579 and then they had a face to go with the name, 127 00:07:40,667 --> 00:07:44,877 but the problem was, they didn't know where she was. 128 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:46,419 They had her in sight. 129 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,290 All of a sudden, she would hitting me with a pool stick 130 00:07:49,375 --> 00:07:51,455 and just go off. 131 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,380 Taylor: Once the name of Aileen Carol Wuornos was laid on our plate 132 00:08:03,459 --> 00:08:07,749 and leads that she was spending her time in Daytona, 133 00:08:07,834 --> 00:08:11,004 that's where our investigative efforts were shifted. 134 00:08:11,083 --> 00:08:14,633 Jarvis: So what we did is, we took as many undercover officers 135 00:08:14,709 --> 00:08:17,129 as we could get together from all the different agencies 136 00:08:17,209 --> 00:08:20,789 around central Florida and went over to Daytona beach 137 00:08:20,876 --> 00:08:24,576 and saturated the locations we felt they might hang out at. 138 00:08:24,667 --> 00:08:28,667 Damore: We would actually literally go from bar to bar to bar 139 00:08:28,751 --> 00:08:31,081 to see if we could visually identify her. 140 00:08:31,167 --> 00:08:33,997 One of the investigators from citrus county 141 00:08:34,083 --> 00:08:40,043 - pretty quickly ran into Aileen. - They had her in sight. 142 00:08:40,125 --> 00:08:45,825 They sent in two undercover cops who worked mainly drug cases, 143 00:08:45,918 --> 00:08:51,168 who looked like bikers and bought her beers 144 00:08:51,250 --> 00:08:53,540 and hung out with her. 145 00:08:53,626 --> 00:08:55,206 I guess the best way to describe her... 146 00:08:55,292 --> 00:08:57,542 She kind of, like, had a split personality. 147 00:08:57,626 --> 00:08:58,996 She'd be fine. 148 00:08:59,083 --> 00:09:02,383 We'd be shooting pool, drinking beer, and laughing, 149 00:09:02,459 --> 00:09:04,499 having a good time, and all of a sudden, 150 00:09:04,584 --> 00:09:09,334 she would hit me with a pool stick and just go off. 151 00:09:09,417 --> 00:09:10,997 And you'd ask her, "why'd you do that?" 152 00:09:11,083 --> 00:09:15,673 And she'd say, "hell, I don't know." 153 00:09:15,751 --> 00:09:17,751 Jarvis: He wasn't asking her about murders or anything. 154 00:09:17,834 --> 00:09:19,334 He was playing pool with her. 155 00:09:19,417 --> 00:09:22,287 He was buying her cigarettes and just trying to get her 156 00:09:22,375 --> 00:09:24,205 to let her guard down a little bit 157 00:09:24,292 --> 00:09:27,792 and stall her long enough for us to put a plan together 158 00:09:27,876 --> 00:09:30,246 to be able to take her into custody. 159 00:09:30,334 --> 00:09:32,794 Taylor: There was a lot of intense discussion 160 00:09:32,876 --> 00:09:35,536 between law enforcement and prosecutors. 161 00:09:35,626 --> 00:09:39,376 Cops want to get her off the street. They've ID'd her. 162 00:09:39,459 --> 00:09:43,669 They're pretty damn sure that she's the perpetrator, 163 00:09:43,751 --> 00:09:47,881 but the prosecution wants a nice, successful prosecution, 164 00:09:47,959 --> 00:09:51,169 and they don't feel like they have the evidence for it. 165 00:09:51,250 --> 00:09:54,210 At that point, we had a lot of uncertainties. 166 00:09:54,292 --> 00:09:56,332 But we were up against a fear that 167 00:09:56,417 --> 00:09:58,457 if we didn't stay on top of her, 168 00:09:58,542 --> 00:10:01,962 and she got loose that we'd have another dead body. 169 00:10:02,042 --> 00:10:03,832 We'd have to do something. 170 00:10:03,918 --> 00:10:07,038 Reynolds: There's not much evidence, so how do you get this person 171 00:10:07,125 --> 00:10:10,285 off the street before they kill again? 172 00:10:12,918 --> 00:10:15,668 Taylor: So a decision was made that night to go ahead 173 00:10:15,751 --> 00:10:20,171 and arrest her on the outstanding weapons charge. 174 00:10:20,250 --> 00:10:22,710 Jarvis: We didn't know where she kept the gun. 175 00:10:22,792 --> 00:10:24,132 We didn't know how she'd react. 176 00:10:24,209 --> 00:10:26,289 We didn't know what she'd do. 177 00:10:26,375 --> 00:10:29,665 The plan was to have Mike walk her out front 178 00:10:29,751 --> 00:10:33,461 to have a cigarette, and that's what we did. 179 00:10:33,542 --> 00:10:37,832 So they walk out of the bar towards his truck. 180 00:10:37,918 --> 00:10:41,378 Cops come up. They arrest him and her. 181 00:10:41,459 --> 00:10:42,919 Officer: What's your name, pal? 182 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,670 Damore: Our desire was to put her in a safe place 183 00:10:46,751 --> 00:10:48,881 and not risk someone else being murdered. 184 00:10:48,959 --> 00:10:52,129 Jarvis: But when we took Aileen into custody, 185 00:10:52,209 --> 00:10:55,379 we did not have a prosecutable case at the time. 186 00:10:55,459 --> 00:10:59,459 They don't have any chance at all, had very little evidence, 187 00:10:59,542 --> 00:11:02,292 and they had no direct witnesses. 188 00:11:02,375 --> 00:11:06,625 Jarvis: What happened at this point is, we needed a miracle, 189 00:11:06,709 --> 00:11:10,579 and that miracle came in the form of tyria Moore. 190 00:11:18,167 --> 00:11:19,537 Reporter: Lee, it sounds like you've been betrayed by everyone. 191 00:11:19,626 --> 00:11:20,956 That's right. I was. 192 00:11:21,042 --> 00:11:22,792 I was... that's why I don't care 193 00:11:22,876 --> 00:11:25,786 if I'm executed and leave this planet. 194 00:11:27,626 --> 00:11:30,786 Kassewitz: Aileen is now in jail, but they still don't have a case. 195 00:11:30,876 --> 00:11:34,456 The only way they can get her is by a confession, 196 00:11:34,542 --> 00:11:36,882 and they believe the only way they can get that confession 197 00:11:36,959 --> 00:11:39,459 is to put pressure on tyria Moore. 198 00:11:39,542 --> 00:11:42,002 Taylor: Tyria and Lee had parted ways. 199 00:11:42,083 --> 00:11:45,793 Tyria had left and went to Pennsylvania 200 00:11:45,876 --> 00:11:50,286 to be with family and friends, and when Lee was arrested, 201 00:11:50,375 --> 00:11:55,455 a very concerted effort was made to locate tyria Moore. 202 00:11:55,542 --> 00:11:58,252 Kassewitz: They realized that this is the love of Aileen's life, 203 00:11:58,334 --> 00:12:01,384 and they can use this as a pressure point. 204 00:12:01,459 --> 00:12:04,879 We were able to locate tyria up north. 205 00:12:04,959 --> 00:12:09,079 Reynolds: The investigators came up with a plan in which tyria 206 00:12:09,167 --> 00:12:13,207 was convinced that it would be in her best interest 207 00:12:13,292 --> 00:12:15,132 to cooperate. 208 00:12:15,209 --> 00:12:16,829 Damore: The way we enlisted Ty Moore's help 209 00:12:16,918 --> 00:12:19,918 was to suggest the possibility that she could be arrested 210 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,790 as an accessory after the fact for these homicides. 211 00:12:23,876 --> 00:12:28,876 Trenkmann: They said, "if you agree to get a confession from Wuornos, 212 00:12:28,959 --> 00:12:30,249 you won't face prosecution." 213 00:12:30,334 --> 00:12:35,174 And she flipped immediately on Lee. 214 00:12:35,250 --> 00:12:38,880 She willingly agreed to come back to the state of Florida 215 00:12:38,959 --> 00:12:41,419 to cooperate in this investigation. 216 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,880 She's actually housed in a motel in Daytona 217 00:12:44,959 --> 00:12:47,789 under the watchful eye of detectives. 218 00:12:47,876 --> 00:12:50,786 She sent a note to Aileen in the volusia county jail 219 00:12:50,876 --> 00:12:53,206 and said, "hey. I'm here in Daytona." 220 00:12:53,292 --> 00:12:54,632 The police are asking questions. 221 00:12:54,709 --> 00:12:57,669 "Call me," and we had a recorded line set up, 222 00:12:57,751 --> 00:13:00,751 and we recorded somewhere around 13 or 14 phone calls 223 00:13:00,834 --> 00:13:02,384 between the girls. 224 00:13:02,459 --> 00:13:04,789 [Telephone rings] 225 00:13:10,375 --> 00:13:13,455 Taylor: We wanted incriminating statements, 226 00:13:13,542 --> 00:13:17,962 declarations made by Lee Wuornos to tyria that we could record. 227 00:13:18,042 --> 00:13:20,582 We actually had questions that were scripted out 228 00:13:20,667 --> 00:13:24,747 that we wanted tyria to communicate to Lee Wuornos, 229 00:13:24,834 --> 00:13:26,924 which she did. 230 00:14:00,876 --> 00:14:07,496 There is a lengthy tear-filled, sobbing conversation 231 00:14:07,584 --> 00:14:12,834 in which Ty is imploring Lee to do the right thing. 232 00:14:12,918 --> 00:14:16,038 And Aileen kept telling her, "I will protect you. 233 00:14:16,125 --> 00:14:17,625 I will protect you." 234 00:14:17,709 --> 00:14:19,789 She loved Ty with all of her heart. 235 00:14:24,292 --> 00:14:25,962 Reynolds: It was emotional. 236 00:14:26,042 --> 00:14:29,502 In a way, it was just heartbreaking. 237 00:14:29,584 --> 00:14:32,964 Jarvis: Aileen cared for this girl. She cared a lot about her. 238 00:14:33,042 --> 00:14:35,132 She wanted to protect her. 239 00:14:42,250 --> 00:14:45,880 Trenkmann: Maybe the only time she really found any solace in life 240 00:14:45,959 --> 00:14:48,329 was with this relationship with tyria Moore, 241 00:14:48,417 --> 00:14:52,537 and sadly, it was used against her at the end. 242 00:15:15,792 --> 00:15:18,502 And it was at that point, the "wow" moment... 243 00:15:18,584 --> 00:15:20,584 We knew we had the right person. 244 00:15:20,667 --> 00:15:22,747 Everything was now coming together. 245 00:15:43,459 --> 00:15:50,169 Damore: Aileen surprised me in her desire to protect Ty Moore 246 00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:55,710 because you saw some humanity in her 247 00:15:55,792 --> 00:15:58,792 in that attempt to protect her lover. 248 00:15:58,876 --> 00:16:01,576 Aileen was a terrible person. She was a horrible person. 249 00:16:01,667 --> 00:16:02,917 She was a bad person. 250 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,250 She was rotten from within her core, 251 00:16:05,334 --> 00:16:07,294 but even maybe in the most rotten, 252 00:16:07,375 --> 00:16:11,825 there are moments where there is some humanity left 253 00:16:11,918 --> 00:16:14,748 in that person's soul. 254 00:16:14,834 --> 00:16:18,334 Jarvis: When Aileen finished talking to tyria, 255 00:16:18,417 --> 00:16:20,957 she contacted one of the correction officers 256 00:16:21,042 --> 00:16:22,712 a the volusia county jail, 257 00:16:22,792 --> 00:16:26,382 and she told the officer, "I want to talk to the police." 258 00:16:31,334 --> 00:16:33,714 She didn't come across as a monster 259 00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:35,962 or a killer during these conversations. 260 00:16:36,042 --> 00:16:38,002 It was just like you're talking to a normal person. 261 00:16:38,083 --> 00:16:41,883 It ended up helping to lead to her downfall. 262 00:16:52,042 --> 00:16:53,672 Welcome back to "very scary people." 263 00:16:53,751 --> 00:16:57,791 When investigators arrested Aileen Wuornos in January 1991, 264 00:16:57,876 --> 00:16:59,666 they were certain she was the person 265 00:16:59,751 --> 00:17:02,671 who had killed at least seven men across Florida. 266 00:17:02,751 --> 00:17:05,041 Detectives had convinced her girlfriend, tyria Moore, 267 00:17:05,125 --> 00:17:07,325 to help them, but they didn't have the proof 268 00:17:07,417 --> 00:17:11,037 they needed to charge her with the murders yet. 269 00:17:11,125 --> 00:17:17,625 ?? 270 00:17:17,709 --> 00:17:25,079 Taylor: After that telephone call, on January the 16th, 271 00:17:25,167 --> 00:17:29,037 Lee Wuornos tells corrections officers, 272 00:17:29,125 --> 00:17:31,705 "I need to speak with the detectives." 273 00:17:44,584 --> 00:17:46,924 When Aileen came into the interview, 274 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,580 I think her main goal at that point 275 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:52,957 was to make sure she let us know that tyria wasn't involved. 276 00:18:13,959 --> 00:18:16,379 They didn't have a case until they had the confession, 277 00:18:16,459 --> 00:18:21,789 and she had just basically committed suicide to save tyria. 278 00:18:28,250 --> 00:18:32,750 The love that she had for tyria was so intense and was so deep 279 00:18:32,834 --> 00:18:35,584 that she was going to confess to all seven murders 280 00:18:35,667 --> 00:18:40,877 and to basically eliminate any accusations 281 00:18:40,959 --> 00:18:43,039 that could be focused on tyria. 282 00:18:50,959 --> 00:18:53,999 Jarvis: But she's going to be the victim when she gives the confession, 283 00:18:54,083 --> 00:18:57,423 so in her mind, "I'm a good person. 284 00:18:57,500 --> 00:18:59,790 I'm confessing, but I had to do it." 285 00:19:15,667 --> 00:19:17,957 She insisted during her confession 286 00:19:18,042 --> 00:19:22,792 that everything she did was to defend herself. 287 00:19:22,876 --> 00:19:26,416 Tanner: She thought they were going to attack her, 288 00:19:26,500 --> 00:19:30,290 or she felt threatened, and that's why she shot them. 289 00:19:44,500 --> 00:19:47,290 She was claiming that in each case, she was the victim. 290 00:19:47,375 --> 00:19:48,955 She was picked up for sex. 291 00:19:49,042 --> 00:19:50,792 They were getting rough with her, you know, that she 292 00:19:50,876 --> 00:19:52,956 was in fear of her life, and she had to kill them. 293 00:20:03,751 --> 00:20:07,461 As time went on, she changed it to... she robbed them. 294 00:20:07,542 --> 00:20:09,832 She wanted to kill them, so they couldn't identify her. 295 00:20:09,918 --> 00:20:12,998 So trying to get something from her perspective 296 00:20:13,083 --> 00:20:17,003 was kind of difficult at times because it changed so much. 297 00:20:55,375 --> 00:20:59,165 Aileen stuck with the idea or excuse 298 00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:02,750 that all of her victims raped or attempted to rape her, 299 00:21:02,834 --> 00:21:05,924 even though circumstances didn't hold up with that. 300 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,380 Jarvis: When we look at the evidence, it doesn't support that. 301 00:21:09,459 --> 00:21:13,579 Take, for example, the case involving Mr. Humphreys. 302 00:21:13,667 --> 00:21:16,377 She claimed that she was defending herself... 303 00:21:19,792 --> 00:21:22,382 ...but the injuries that he had 304 00:21:22,459 --> 00:21:24,419 were not consistent with that confession. 305 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:28,080 The locations of the shots were indicative 306 00:21:28,167 --> 00:21:30,377 of a defensive position. 307 00:21:30,459 --> 00:21:33,749 The first shot went through his right wrist 308 00:21:33,834 --> 00:21:35,464 as if he had his arms up. 309 00:21:35,542 --> 00:21:38,382 The second shot was in the right side of his torso, 310 00:21:38,459 --> 00:21:41,379 which would mean he was starting to turn to run away. 311 00:21:41,459 --> 00:21:44,579 The next shot was to the back of the head. 312 00:21:44,667 --> 00:21:48,417 When he fell down, the gun was put right up to his body, 313 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:51,330 and we had a close contact wound to the chest. 314 00:21:51,417 --> 00:21:55,917 So those things were indicative of this predator 315 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,920 going after him. 316 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,080 Reynolds: Lee didn't think any of that thing through, 317 00:22:00,167 --> 00:22:03,037 and it didn't matter. She had made up her mind. 318 00:22:03,125 --> 00:22:05,205 That was her story, and she going to stick with it. 319 00:22:18,083 --> 00:22:21,583 When you think of this monster or this killer, 320 00:22:21,667 --> 00:22:24,537 she didn't come across as a monster or a killer 321 00:22:24,626 --> 00:22:26,076 during these conversations. 322 00:22:26,167 --> 00:22:28,667 It was just like you're talking to a normal person. 323 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,330 I mean, to think that this person just killed seven people, 324 00:22:45,417 --> 00:22:48,707 and she's sitting here talking back and forth with detectives, 325 00:22:48,792 --> 00:22:51,042 just like a run-of-the-mill conversation... 326 00:22:54,834 --> 00:22:56,924 We take great pleasure in announcing 327 00:22:57,042 --> 00:23:02,502 to the successful conclusion of a 13-month-long investigation. 328 00:23:02,584 --> 00:23:05,634 The persons charged in the homicides 329 00:23:05,709 --> 00:23:10,419 is identified as Aileen Carol Wuornos. 330 00:23:15,459 --> 00:23:17,129 Jarvis: Based on that confession... 331 00:23:17,209 --> 00:23:21,329 We were able to recover the gun where she had discarded it, 332 00:23:23,959 --> 00:23:26,669 ...and we recovered a small briefcase 333 00:23:26,751 --> 00:23:28,881 that Aileen carried around with her. 334 00:23:28,959 --> 00:23:31,169 When we searched this, we found a receipt 335 00:23:31,250 --> 00:23:33,920 for a mini warehouse in Daytona beach. 336 00:23:37,292 --> 00:23:39,252 That really was the coup de grace. 337 00:23:39,334 --> 00:23:43,584 Jarvis: We recovered her souvenirs from six of the seven victims. 338 00:23:43,667 --> 00:23:44,957 That's important evidence 339 00:23:45,042 --> 00:23:48,712 because it links her directly to their murder. 340 00:23:48,792 --> 00:23:52,382 It ended up helping to lead to her downfall. 341 00:23:52,459 --> 00:23:54,629 Jarvis: And now, we started putting these things together, 342 00:23:54,709 --> 00:23:57,539 and as you look at the cumulative effect of it, 343 00:23:57,626 --> 00:24:00,876 you have a prosecutable case. 344 00:24:00,959 --> 00:24:04,459 He said, "you're going to do everything I tell you to do. 345 00:24:04,542 --> 00:24:06,542 If you don't, I'll kill you right now." 346 00:24:06,626 --> 00:24:08,916 Ripped a cord around me neck. 347 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,630 Aileen Wuornos claims that she was brutally raped by him 348 00:24:12,709 --> 00:24:14,789 and when given the chance to break free 349 00:24:14,876 --> 00:24:16,076 had shot him to death. 350 00:24:16,167 --> 00:24:19,247 There is the possibility she's telling the truth. 351 00:24:26,292 --> 00:24:28,382 This man was shot just... Just shot in self-defense. 352 00:24:28,459 --> 00:24:30,289 Boom, boom, boom. You know, they weren't cut up. 353 00:24:30,375 --> 00:24:32,825 They weren't sliced up, no o.J. Jazz, you know? 354 00:24:32,918 --> 00:24:35,538 All they were was shot and left. 355 00:24:35,626 --> 00:24:38,286 If it was a horrendous crime, why didn't I shoot them between 356 00:24:38,375 --> 00:24:40,785 the eyes, cut their penis off, stick it in their mouth, 357 00:24:40,876 --> 00:24:43,626 you know, do all kinds of gross stuff? 358 00:24:43,709 --> 00:24:46,379 All they were was shot and left. 359 00:24:51,542 --> 00:24:53,712 Trenkmann: Once it became clear that Aileen Wuornos 360 00:24:53,792 --> 00:24:56,002 was the one responsible for multiple murders 361 00:24:56,083 --> 00:25:00,713 and that Florida had a female serial killer on its hands, 362 00:25:00,792 --> 00:25:02,752 the media coverage exploded... 363 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:06,004 Reporter: Aileen Wuornos faces five murder charges. 364 00:25:06,083 --> 00:25:08,673 ...in part because it's so very rare. 365 00:25:08,751 --> 00:25:12,671 There are very few female serial killers in general 366 00:25:12,751 --> 00:25:16,791 and even fewer who commit their crimes in this brutal fashion. 367 00:25:16,876 --> 00:25:18,496 Just hear you say... Do you... are you trying... 368 00:25:18,584 --> 00:25:20,044 Are you telling me I can't have 369 00:25:20,125 --> 00:25:21,535 - these lawyers to protect me? - No, ma'am. 370 00:25:21,626 --> 00:25:23,286 Damore: You know, you had the perfect storm. 371 00:25:23,375 --> 00:25:27,955 You had death, you had sex, money in the form of robberies. 372 00:25:28,042 --> 00:25:30,672 So, I mean, what else do you need to make a story? 373 00:25:30,751 --> 00:25:33,041 I'm in fear for my life in the volusia county jail, 374 00:25:33,125 --> 00:25:36,665 and I'm tired of them... Trying to kill me there. 375 00:25:39,709 --> 00:25:45,039 Aileen Wuornos' trial was exceptional in several matters. 376 00:25:45,125 --> 00:25:47,325 Trenkmann: There was a woman, Arlene pralle. 377 00:25:47,417 --> 00:25:49,997 She was a Christian who believed that it was her mission 378 00:25:50,083 --> 00:25:52,753 to help this woman in her time of need. 379 00:25:52,834 --> 00:25:55,044 I want them to treat her like she's innocent 380 00:25:55,125 --> 00:25:57,575 until she's proven guilty. That's what I want. 381 00:25:57,667 --> 00:26:00,287 I want them to treat her like a human being. 382 00:26:00,375 --> 00:26:01,995 Kassewitz: One of the things Arlene pralle does is 383 00:26:02,083 --> 00:26:05,793 she legally adopts Aileen so that she has some connection 384 00:26:05,876 --> 00:26:07,576 that the court has to respect. 385 00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:09,707 Reporter: Wuornos occasionally smiled and glanced 386 00:26:09,792 --> 00:26:12,212 to the back of the room, mouthing the words, 387 00:26:12,292 --> 00:26:15,922 "I love you," to her adoptive mother, Arlene pralle. 388 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,880 And this was just part of the insanity. 389 00:26:17,959 --> 00:26:19,459 You know, Aileen is 34 years old, 390 00:26:19,542 --> 00:26:21,632 and now, she's being adopted. 391 00:26:23,584 --> 00:26:25,424 Reporter: Aileen Wuornos showed little emotion 392 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,000 as she was led into the courthouse 393 00:26:27,083 --> 00:26:30,963 in deland, Florida, as jury selection began Monday. 394 00:26:31,042 --> 00:26:35,422 Jarvis: The first case brought against Aileen Wuornos for murder 395 00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:39,290 was the death of Richard Mallory. 396 00:26:39,375 --> 00:26:42,575 Attorney: She killed him out of greed. 397 00:26:42,667 --> 00:26:48,537 She was no longer satisfied with $10 or $20 or $40. 398 00:26:48,626 --> 00:26:50,036 She wanted it all. 399 00:26:50,125 --> 00:26:52,825 Singhal: You had a mountain of evidence against her 400 00:26:52,918 --> 00:26:56,748 because you did have the police work that was involved. 401 00:26:56,834 --> 00:26:58,334 You had the confessions. 402 00:26:58,417 --> 00:27:00,627 You had the woman she was in a relationship 403 00:27:00,709 --> 00:27:03,499 with who became a state's witness. 404 00:27:08,375 --> 00:27:09,745 Reporter: Wuornos alternately laughed 405 00:27:09,834 --> 00:27:11,674 and wept as the tapes of her conversation 406 00:27:11,751 --> 00:27:14,921 with her former girlfriend, tyria Moore, were made public. 407 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,330 Kassewitz: But one of the most devastating parts of the trial 408 00:27:23,417 --> 00:27:27,497 is when prosecution brings in tyria Moore. 409 00:27:27,584 --> 00:27:29,924 Tyria wouldn't even look at Aileen, but it... 410 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,040 You could tell just by watching Aileen, 411 00:27:32,125 --> 00:27:34,745 it was breaking her heart. 412 00:27:34,834 --> 00:27:40,634 Time after time after time, she was raped. 413 00:27:40,709 --> 00:27:45,919 Time after time after time, she was beaten up. 414 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:50,630 Finally, she armed herself. 415 00:27:50,709 --> 00:27:53,749 Trenkmann: Aileen Wuornos claims that she wasn't driven 416 00:27:53,834 --> 00:27:56,334 to kill Richard Mallory. 417 00:27:56,417 --> 00:27:59,037 She claims that she was brutally raped by him, 418 00:27:59,125 --> 00:28:02,495 and when given the chance to break free of that incident, 419 00:28:02,584 --> 00:28:04,044 she shot him to death. 420 00:28:04,125 --> 00:28:07,535 She defended herself. 421 00:28:07,626 --> 00:28:09,326 Damore: When the defense made the decision 422 00:28:09,417 --> 00:28:12,537 to call Aileen Wuornos to testify, 423 00:28:12,626 --> 00:28:14,496 it was electric in the courtroom. 424 00:28:14,584 --> 00:28:16,044 Gee, I'm going to tell you right now. 425 00:28:16,125 --> 00:28:20,455 I'm really nervous, and I'm really getting pretty shy 426 00:28:20,542 --> 00:28:22,462 and embarrassed, and this is hard for me, 427 00:28:22,542 --> 00:28:26,042 so just bear with me. 428 00:28:26,125 --> 00:28:28,375 Damore: Aileen Wuornos' testimony was 429 00:28:28,459 --> 00:28:30,499 effectively... They were going to engage in sex 430 00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:34,294 but that he immediately became very violent. 431 00:28:34,375 --> 00:28:36,875 I saw him coming toward me, 432 00:28:36,959 --> 00:28:40,789 and just I was going to turn to look at him, 433 00:28:40,876 --> 00:28:43,036 and before I even got a chance to turn and look at him, 434 00:28:43,125 --> 00:28:45,705 he ripped a cord around my neck. 435 00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:53,882 He said, "you're going to do everything I tell you to do..." 436 00:28:55,792 --> 00:28:59,502 "...and if you don't, I'll kill you right now," 437 00:28:59,584 --> 00:29:04,424 and I said, "don't come out. Don't come near me. I'll shoot." 438 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,420 I'll have to shoot you again," or something like that. 439 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:09,460 "Don't make me have to shoot you again," or something like that. 440 00:29:09,542 --> 00:29:13,252 He just started coming at me, and I shot. 441 00:29:13,334 --> 00:29:15,834 And I don't know where I shot him, I just shot, 442 00:29:15,918 --> 00:29:19,828 and he fell on the ground. 443 00:29:19,918 --> 00:29:22,788 Kassewitz: There is the possibility she's telling the truth. 444 00:29:22,876 --> 00:29:26,496 After trial, we find out this amazing information 445 00:29:26,584 --> 00:29:28,044 about Richard Mallory. 446 00:29:28,125 --> 00:29:31,075 Jarvis: Mallory had been convicted of a burglary 447 00:29:31,167 --> 00:29:34,827 with intent to commit sexual assault, 448 00:29:34,918 --> 00:29:38,248 and it was deemed a psychological problem. 449 00:29:38,334 --> 00:29:41,004 He went into some type of mental institute 450 00:29:41,083 --> 00:29:44,213 and served some time there, so there was some speculation 451 00:29:44,292 --> 00:29:48,042 that maybe he did get violent with her. 452 00:29:48,125 --> 00:29:51,245 I think it's possible, and I think it's possible 453 00:29:51,334 --> 00:29:56,674 that this was a trigger for the subsequent events. 454 00:29:56,751 --> 00:29:59,751 Jarvis: Maybe Mr. Mallory did get rough with her, 455 00:29:59,834 --> 00:30:01,964 and she retaliated. 456 00:30:02,042 --> 00:30:04,002 Maybe she was trying to kill Richard Mallory 457 00:30:04,083 --> 00:30:06,383 again and again, 458 00:30:06,459 --> 00:30:09,129 and this is where the profile comes in 459 00:30:09,209 --> 00:30:13,789 where the men were similar age, race. 460 00:30:13,876 --> 00:30:15,916 So it might be an internal mechanism 461 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:21,080 that Aileen has where she's lashing out to kill these men. 462 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,290 Was her story believable? 463 00:30:25,375 --> 00:30:30,915 It wasn't unbelievable if you separated it out by itself, 464 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,670 but there was no evidence to support Aileen Wuornos' claim. 465 00:30:35,751 --> 00:30:38,631 In fact, when tyria Moore testified, 466 00:30:38,709 --> 00:30:40,959 she saw no injuries whatsoever 467 00:30:41,042 --> 00:30:44,042 when Aileen Wuornos came back to their hotel 468 00:30:44,125 --> 00:30:45,995 with Richard Mallory's car. 469 00:30:46,083 --> 00:30:49,633 Did she ever advise you that the man she had shot 470 00:30:49,709 --> 00:30:54,459 - had done anything to her? - No. She didn't. 471 00:30:54,542 --> 00:30:58,082 Reporter: The seven women and five men deliberated for 91 minutes, 472 00:30:58,167 --> 00:31:01,247 and then returned a verdict everyone expected... 473 00:31:01,334 --> 00:31:03,294 Everyone except Aileen Wuornos. 474 00:31:03,375 --> 00:31:07,785 Woman: The state of Florida versus Aileen Carol Wuornos. 475 00:31:07,876 --> 00:31:09,626 We, the jury, find the defendant, 476 00:31:09,709 --> 00:31:11,079 Aileen Carol Wuornos, 477 00:31:11,167 --> 00:31:15,787 guilty of first degree premeditated murder. 478 00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:18,536 Jarvis: When she was found guilty, she was shocked. 479 00:31:18,626 --> 00:31:21,246 She never thought she'd be found guilty. 480 00:31:21,334 --> 00:31:26,924 Lee went off on that jury, and she didn't give a damn, 481 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000 - and she just vented. - She turns around. 482 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:34,173 Her eyes are wild, says... 483 00:31:55,667 --> 00:31:59,167 I think there was the violent Aileen who did the murders, 484 00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:01,750 I think there was the child-of-rage Aileen, 485 00:32:01,834 --> 00:32:04,044 and I think there was the lover of tyria. 486 00:32:04,125 --> 00:32:09,165 I think when she was found guilty, the raging came out, 487 00:32:09,250 --> 00:32:11,210 and you could see it in her eyes. 488 00:32:11,292 --> 00:32:13,462 Only manson scared me more. 489 00:32:16,542 --> 00:32:19,542 I have been labeled a serial killer, 490 00:32:19,626 --> 00:32:21,826 and I am no serial killer. 491 00:32:21,918 --> 00:32:24,208 What I was, was a prostitute. 492 00:32:24,292 --> 00:32:25,962 I was not out there to hurt anyone. 493 00:32:26,042 --> 00:32:29,922 I didn't... had no intentions of hurting anyone. 494 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,380 What I did was what anybody else would do. 495 00:32:33,459 --> 00:32:37,079 I defended myself, which everybody has the right 496 00:32:37,167 --> 00:32:38,917 to defend themselves. 497 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,210 The jury voted 12 to zero for the death penalty. 498 00:32:43,292 --> 00:32:44,792 Until by warrant of the governor 499 00:32:44,876 --> 00:32:48,076 of the state of Florida, you, Aileen Carol Wuornos, 500 00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:51,127 be electrocuted until you are dead. 501 00:32:53,792 --> 00:32:56,752 Coming up, america's first female serial killer. 502 00:32:56,834 --> 00:32:59,504 In just about 13 hours, she's scheduled to die. 503 00:32:59,584 --> 00:33:02,254 Trenkmann: I was among the journalists who was chosen to go in. 504 00:33:02,334 --> 00:33:04,084 Wuornos gave a statement that people 505 00:33:04,167 --> 00:33:07,167 are still trying to figure out to this day. 506 00:33:13,375 --> 00:33:15,625 - Maybe you were just born bad. - Boy, I don't know about you. 507 00:33:15,709 --> 00:33:19,249 I'm telling you, man. No. I wasn't born bad. 508 00:33:19,334 --> 00:33:21,294 You guys got it... see? I'm trying to tell you, man. 509 00:33:21,375 --> 00:33:24,575 They lie. They lied so bad to you all. 510 00:33:24,667 --> 00:33:26,167 - You killed seven men... - Why look at the number? 511 00:33:26,250 --> 00:33:27,420 Reporter: ...Seven strangers. 512 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:29,040 Does that not make you a serial killer? 513 00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:31,205 See, I didn't kill them every day, did I? 514 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Damore: After Ms. Wuornos was tried and convicted 515 00:33:35,083 --> 00:33:37,543 by a jury of murder and sentenced to death, 516 00:33:37,626 --> 00:33:41,956 she, through her counsel, decided to enter pleas of guilty 517 00:33:42,042 --> 00:33:45,292 to the remaining five homicides that she was charged with. 518 00:33:45,375 --> 00:33:46,785 I do not want a trial. 519 00:33:46,876 --> 00:33:50,326 I don't know that she wanted to sit in the courtroom 520 00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:52,877 in front of different sets of jurors 521 00:33:52,959 --> 00:33:56,079 and hear them find her guilty and then sentence her to death. 522 00:33:56,167 --> 00:34:00,457 I think in her mind, she was speeding up the process. 523 00:34:00,542 --> 00:34:02,252 It was an inevitable conclusion 524 00:34:02,334 --> 00:34:04,134 that she was just bringing forward. 525 00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:06,579 Damore: She was sentenced to death for each of the crimes 526 00:34:06,667 --> 00:34:08,127 that she had committed and admitted to. 527 00:34:08,209 --> 00:34:10,919 And it just added to more death sentences 528 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,460 on top of death sentences for Wuornos 529 00:34:13,542 --> 00:34:15,422 to the point where she ended up with six 530 00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,130 before it was all said and done. 531 00:34:17,209 --> 00:34:19,419 When the judge passed sentence, she started cursing them out 532 00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,170 and giving them the finger, and she was just out of control. 533 00:34:23,250 --> 00:34:25,830 I hope your wife and kids get raped. 534 00:34:25,918 --> 00:34:31,828 ?? 535 00:34:31,918 --> 00:34:36,748 There's no sense in having me tormented 536 00:34:36,834 --> 00:34:38,544 for the rest of my life 537 00:34:38,626 --> 00:34:40,826 when I don't deserve to be tormented 538 00:34:40,918 --> 00:34:43,378 because I did what anybody else would do, 539 00:34:43,459 --> 00:34:45,129 and so there's only clemency or the chair. 540 00:34:45,209 --> 00:34:46,879 You make your pick, people, 541 00:34:46,959 --> 00:34:49,459 because that's the only way it's going to be. 542 00:34:49,542 --> 00:34:52,332 Singhal: I represented Aileen Wuornos for only 3 months 543 00:34:52,417 --> 00:34:57,417 from June of 2002 through September of 2002. 544 00:34:57,500 --> 00:34:59,960 She felt that people were tampering with her food, 545 00:35:00,042 --> 00:35:03,042 people were doing things in her jail cell 546 00:35:03,125 --> 00:35:08,165 that were designed to send radio waves through her brain. 547 00:35:08,250 --> 00:35:10,920 I'm so sick of hearing this, "she's crazy," stuff. 548 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,250 I've been evaluated so many times. 549 00:35:13,334 --> 00:35:16,084 I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth, 550 00:35:16,167 --> 00:35:18,457 and I'll take a polygraph on every single word 551 00:35:18,542 --> 00:35:20,632 on those pages. 552 00:35:22,667 --> 00:35:24,917 Trenkmann: Wuornos had real contempt for the world 553 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,790 and at some point had contempt for life itself, 554 00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:30,456 and she decided she had had it, 555 00:35:30,542 --> 00:35:32,332 and she did not want to be on death row anymore. 556 00:35:32,417 --> 00:35:33,877 She wanted to be executed. 557 00:35:33,959 --> 00:35:37,419 Aileen's claim of self-defense, she renounced that story. 558 00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,250 She said that none of these men did anything wrong, 559 00:35:40,334 --> 00:35:43,674 that none of them tried to assault her or attack her 560 00:35:43,751 --> 00:35:48,501 and that her stories of self-defense had all been lies. 561 00:35:51,125 --> 00:35:53,125 I killed those men. 562 00:35:53,209 --> 00:35:57,079 I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, 563 00:35:57,167 --> 00:35:58,747 and I'd do it again, too. 564 00:35:58,834 --> 00:36:01,254 Lee wanted to have control over the situation, 565 00:36:01,334 --> 00:36:04,504 and "I'm going to die, and I'm choosing to die," you know, 566 00:36:04,584 --> 00:36:06,504 "it's my choice, not yours." 567 00:36:06,584 --> 00:36:12,214 But there's no chance of this, in keeping me alive or anything 568 00:36:12,292 --> 00:36:13,542 because I'd kill again. 569 00:36:13,626 --> 00:36:16,496 I have hate crawling through my system. 570 00:36:20,584 --> 00:36:25,174 Ultimately, governor bush had her evaluated by three doctors. 571 00:36:25,250 --> 00:36:28,580 Those doctors found that she was competent for the execution. 572 00:36:28,667 --> 00:36:35,377 Her appeals have been exhausted. She wants to meet her creator. 573 00:36:38,250 --> 00:36:41,830 Chung: By the age of 15, Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute. 574 00:36:41,918 --> 00:36:44,878 By the age of 35, she was a killer, 575 00:36:44,959 --> 00:36:48,499 but Aileen Wuornos won't be making it to 55. 576 00:36:48,584 --> 00:36:49,964 At 9:30 tomorrow morning, 577 00:36:50,042 --> 00:36:51,832 the state of Florida is scheduled 578 00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:53,958 to give Wuornos a lethal injection. 579 00:36:54,042 --> 00:36:57,332 Pouncey: By tomorrow, I will know there will be no more pictures, 580 00:36:57,417 --> 00:36:59,127 no more books, no more movies. 581 00:36:59,209 --> 00:37:02,879 I won't have to see her wicked face again. 582 00:37:06,876 --> 00:37:10,456 Botkins: I wanted to get in touch with my friend Aileen 583 00:37:10,542 --> 00:37:14,002 because she was my friend. I didn't care what she did. 584 00:37:14,083 --> 00:37:19,383 I knew she was going to pay the price for it, rightfully so, 585 00:37:19,459 --> 00:37:24,539 but it's got nothing to do with our friendship. 586 00:37:24,626 --> 00:37:26,166 Well, why wouldn't I be the best friend 587 00:37:26,250 --> 00:37:30,330 I could possibly be for the rest of the years of her life? 588 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,580 Our last night visiting, I took her barbecue chips, 589 00:37:39,667 --> 00:37:42,537 I think, two candy bars. Well, she was totally a peach. 590 00:37:42,626 --> 00:37:44,166 She was so happy that night. 591 00:37:44,250 --> 00:37:46,330 We laughed the whole damn time. 592 00:37:46,417 --> 00:37:49,167 Even the guards kept looking at us, 593 00:37:49,250 --> 00:37:52,750 like "why are they laughing? The girl is being executed." 594 00:37:52,834 --> 00:37:56,464 It was nothing sad. What would be the point? 595 00:37:56,542 --> 00:38:06,672 ?? 596 00:38:06,751 --> 00:38:10,711 Ivey: She requested us to wake her up at 5:30, which we did. 597 00:38:10,792 --> 00:38:13,212 Her attitude is pretty calm. 598 00:38:13,292 --> 00:38:16,462 She's not quite as talkative as she has been in the past. 599 00:38:16,542 --> 00:38:19,632 I was among the journalists who was chosen to go in. 600 00:38:19,709 --> 00:38:24,999 The curtain opened, and there was Aileen Wuornos on a gurney. 601 00:38:25,083 --> 00:38:27,583 Wuornos gave a statement that people are still trying 602 00:38:27,667 --> 00:38:29,247 to figure out to this day. 603 00:38:29,334 --> 00:38:34,294 She said, "I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, 604 00:38:34,375 --> 00:38:37,575 and I'll be back like independence day with Jesus, 605 00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:43,377 June 6th, like the movie, on the big mother ship and all. 606 00:38:43,459 --> 00:38:45,709 I'll be back. I'll be back." 607 00:38:45,792 --> 00:38:48,462 She was calm. It was clinical. 608 00:38:48,542 --> 00:38:50,212 It was almost like watching someone 609 00:38:50,292 --> 00:38:54,172 in the emergency room getting an iv. 610 00:38:54,250 --> 00:38:56,750 Trenkmann: Her eyes slowly closed. 611 00:38:56,834 --> 00:39:00,294 Her skin started to turn sort of grayish, 612 00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:02,245 and that went on for 17 minutes 613 00:39:02,334 --> 00:39:04,254 before she was officially pronounced dead. 614 00:39:04,334 --> 00:39:10,254 ?? 615 00:39:10,334 --> 00:39:15,044 There are a lot of people that sympathize with Aileen. 616 00:39:15,125 --> 00:39:19,165 I feel that a lot of it is, they don't know the facts. 617 00:39:19,250 --> 00:39:21,000 They don't know what really happened. 618 00:39:21,083 --> 00:39:24,963 They hear what came out through the media, through movies. 619 00:39:25,042 --> 00:39:27,132 The most well-known one was "monster," 620 00:39:27,209 --> 00:39:29,419 and that kind of made her look like a victim. 621 00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:31,080 I was raped and beat to [bleep] 622 00:39:31,167 --> 00:39:33,247 And was going to get killed, but I wouldn't... 623 00:39:33,334 --> 00:39:34,674 I didn't want to lose you, you know? 624 00:39:34,751 --> 00:39:36,291 And I all I could think about was over the rest 625 00:39:36,375 --> 00:39:38,125 of your [bleep] life, you'd think I'd stood you up. 626 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:41,959 It's, like, nobody really knew where this woman came from 627 00:39:42,042 --> 00:39:44,882 and to end up the way she did. 628 00:39:44,959 --> 00:39:47,829 There's no question that she had a horrible life, 629 00:39:47,918 --> 00:39:51,958 and it clearly affected her in the worst possible way, 630 00:39:52,042 --> 00:39:54,752 and she paid the ultimate price for that. 631 00:39:56,584 --> 00:39:59,884 But there's a lot of people that have not had a fair shake 632 00:39:59,959 --> 00:40:02,209 in the system in this country, 633 00:40:02,292 --> 00:40:05,172 and they haven't turned into serial killers. 634 00:40:05,250 --> 00:40:07,830 Damore: The fact that Aileen Wuornos received sympathy 635 00:40:07,918 --> 00:40:09,828 is simply because she was a woman. 636 00:40:09,918 --> 00:40:11,378 If she had been a man, 637 00:40:11,459 --> 00:40:13,579 you and I would not be talking about this case. 638 00:40:13,667 --> 00:40:17,917 It's a nightmare, a horrible nightmare that'll never go away. 639 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,000 It'll never go away. 640 00:40:20,083 --> 00:40:25,293 I mean, she was actually an evil woman. 641 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,790 I never saw her be remorseful to anyone, 642 00:40:31,876 --> 00:40:34,826 and I think all of that went away when tyria left. 643 00:40:34,918 --> 00:40:40,078 Her only hope that she ever had in her entire life was tyria, 644 00:40:40,167 --> 00:40:43,037 and even after the betrayal she felt, 645 00:40:43,125 --> 00:40:46,245 she still loved her because it was unconditional, 646 00:40:46,334 --> 00:40:48,464 and I think to the day she died, 647 00:40:48,542 --> 00:40:50,962 she felt that way towards tyria. 648 00:40:51,042 --> 00:40:58,502 ?? 649 00:40:58,584 --> 00:41:05,924 ?? 650 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,330 Despite all of that and despite how much more it meant 651 00:41:10,417 --> 00:41:11,627 to putting her away, 652 00:41:11,709 --> 00:41:14,329 she was still the one that Wuornos loved 653 00:41:14,417 --> 00:41:17,747 and never stopped loving until to her death. 654 00:41:17,834 --> 00:41:20,504 Reporter: Do you want to die? Do you want? 655 00:41:20,584 --> 00:41:22,634 Oh, man. If I was to leave this planet, 656 00:41:22,709 --> 00:41:24,129 it wouldn't be no big deal to me 657 00:41:24,209 --> 00:41:29,749 because this is a wicked, wicked world, wicked world. 658 00:41:29,834 --> 00:41:33,254 The investigation that led to the capture of Aileen Wuornos 659 00:41:33,334 --> 00:41:34,924 was a collaboration of five different 660 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:36,540 counties' sheriff's offices 661 00:41:36,626 --> 00:41:39,036 and the Florida department of law enforcement. 662 00:41:39,125 --> 00:41:43,415 It took 13 months and cost $150,000, 663 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:46,330 but in the end, they got her. 664 00:41:46,417 --> 00:41:49,497 After her execution, Wuornos was cremated 665 00:41:49,584 --> 00:41:53,714 and her remains handed over to childhood friend dawn botkins. 666 00:41:53,792 --> 00:41:57,002 Per Aileen's request, her ashes were spread underneath a tree 667 00:41:57,083 --> 00:41:59,213 on dawn's property in rural Michigan. 668 00:41:59,292 --> 00:42:01,672 So that, as dawn says, 669 00:42:01,751 --> 00:42:04,421 "she could be near someone who loved her." 670 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:07,130 Thanks for watching "very scary people." 671 00:42:07,209 --> 00:42:09,289 Good night. 672 00:42:09,339 --> 00:42:13,889 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 55946

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