Dontcha Know Aileen Wuornos is considered America’s first female serial killer?
Join us as we explore the life and crimes of Aileen Wuornos. Was she a product of her environment? Was she born with the need to kill festering inside her?
Abandoned and neglected from a young age, taunted and tormented through adolescence. Exiled from her abusive home, left to fend for herself in the frozen forests of upper Michigan. Resorting to selling her body to survive, she lived a life of alcoholism and anger issues. Always looking for a fight, Aileen wouldn’t back down from the south paw life would throw at her. Frost bitten and exhausted, Aileen would hitchhike her way down to Florida. There she would be briefly married to an older man. The marriage was quickly annulled due to domestic violence.

In in the early 1980s Aileen would meet the love of her life and her biggest betrayer, Tyria Moore. Aileen would move mountains for to fund Tyria’s lifestyle and affair with alcohol. This meant that Aileen would work many hours hiking her way down the highways peddling her wares. It was a risky career but the only way of making money that Aileen could manage.
Aileen would begin carrying a gun with her for protection. The 80s and 90s were riddled with serial killers and crime. The most vulnerable of society being the targets of these mad monsters prowling the streets.
Was Aileen truly one of the mad monsters or was she a lost soul at the end of her rope? Backed into a corner, mind broken. Empathy never learned. A woman forged in anger and agony; left to feel nothing but fear and rage.
