Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along Florida's highways between 1989 and 1990, but the question at the centre of her story has never been quite as simple as whether she was a serial killer.

Wuornos said her first victim, Richard Mallory, violently attacked and raped her before she shot him in self-defence. She later gave dramatically different accounts of what happened, eventually claiming that robbery, not survival, motivated the killings. Even then, her story continued to shift.

Behind those contradictions was a life already shaped by abandonment, alleged childhood abuse, homelessness, sex work, violence and an intense relationship with Tyria Moore.

We follow Wuornos from her brutal childhood in Michigan through the Florida highway murders, the investigation that finally identified her, Moore's role in obtaining her confession, the trial that sent her to death row, and the questions that remained when she was executed in 2002.

This is the true story behind the woman Charlize Theron portrayed in Monster.

• Aileen Wuornos's childhood, abandonment and allegations of abuse
• Her relationship with Tyria Moore
• Richard Mallory and Wuornos's self-defence claim
• Seven killings across Florida between 1989 and 1990
• The fingerprint and vehicle evidence that helped identify Wuornos
• How Tyria Moore helped police obtain a confession
• Wuornos's changing explanations for the murders
• Her trial, death row years and execution

• Aileen Wuornos – Wikipedia
• Monster (2003) – directed by Patty Jenkins
• Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) – directed by Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill
• Monster: My True Story - by Aileen Wuornos & Christopher Berry-Dee

Host & Show Info

• Hosts: Kyle Risi & Adam Cox
• Editor: Giordanno Bottezini
• Intro Music: Alice in dark Wonderland

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