February 4, 2020 ▸ People, True Crime

Episode 452: Aileen Wuornos: The Tragic Life of a Monster

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On this episode of the world famous Sofa King Podcast, we look at the life and death (sentence) of the monster Aileen Wuornos. She was a notorious female serial killer, the one that the movie Monster was based on. She only killed five, but she had a hell of a path getting there. Her father was a child molester who killed himself in prison. His mother was a teenager who abandoned Aileen and her brother. This put her under the care of her grandparents; her grandmother the alcoholic, and her grandfather the rapist.

Her horrible childhood led to her having sex as a child for loose change and cigarettes just to be popular. She even had sex with her brother. After she was impregnated at 14, she became homeless and lived in the woods. The only way to survive was to sell her body, and she started a career of that. She moved to Florida, married a rich guy, abused him, and got annulled in nine weeks. She met the love of her life, a woman named Tyria Moore, and she started a decades long career of random petty crimes as a hooker. Eventually, she was assaulted by one of her customers and killed him in what she called self-defense. This led to a killing spree over the course of a year. How did she get busted? Did her girlfriend give her up? How many times was she arrested? How did her brother die? How many men did she kill, and were they all customers? Listen, laugh, learn.

Visit Our Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm

https://capitalpunishmentincontext.org/cases/wuornos

https://listverse.com/2020/01/04/10-tragic-facts-about-the-life-of-aileen-wuornos/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/aileen-wuornos

https://murderpedia.org/female.W/w/wuornos-aileen.htm