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There are those that believe
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that when serial killers
make their first kill,
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that opens the floodgates.
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Like an animal might or a wolf
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might when it's had a taste of blood,
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it's going to come back for it again.
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And in Aileen Wuornos' case,
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the ease in which
she had gotten away with it,
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I think, reinforced her belief
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that this was an easier way
of making money.
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Here, she could take everything.
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Welcome to "very scary people."
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I'm Donnie wahlberg.
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She was known as the "damsel of death,"
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one of the few female serial
killers in American history,
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Aileen Wuornos,
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a complex, misunderstood misfit
with a hair-trigger temper,
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whose life and murder spree
was portrayed in the 2003 film.
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"Monster" by charlize theron.
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But the true story of how and why
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this woman gunned down
seven men is even more dramatic,
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compelling, and scary than the
fictional film about her life.
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How did she become a vicious killer?
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Were the seeds of violence planted
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in her sad and unusually brutal
childhood?
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And how did investigators
finally catch her?
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Here is part 1 of
"monster made."
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A serial killer tops our look at stories
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from around the country tonight...
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Aileen Wuornos,
known as the "highway hooker"
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because that's where
she picked up her victims,
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also known as the "damsel of
death" for what she did to them.
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On the 4th of July, Aileen
and tyria were on their way over
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to Daytona beach to watch the fireworks.
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They were going through
the ocala national forest,
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and tyria was driving.
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They had noticed a sign
on the side of the road
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that indicated that there was
a Indian reservation,
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so they took a little detour.
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As tyria starts to head back,
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she's driving a little bit too fast
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to make a curve in the road,
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and the car goes off
the side of the road...
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...turns onto its passenger side
and slides.
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Comes to rest on its tires.
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Aileen knew the seriousness
of the situation.
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She told tyria that they needed
to leave immediately,
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hide the car, because
this was a dead man's car.
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The accident that happened
in Peter siems' car
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probably was an act of fate.
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Had it not been for the accident,
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I'm convinced we'd have other dead men.
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She could've gotten away with it.
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In 1989, Aileen Wuornos
was making her living,
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such as it was,
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as a prostitute on interstate
exits and entrances
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in central Florida.
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I done asked her, you know, why
she had turned to prostitution.
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She was able to make a living otherwise.
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Her answer was, "it was more fun
than working in a restaurant."
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She was in a
relationship with tyria Moore.
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Aileen met tyria in one
of the bars in the Daytona area,
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and Aileen developed this feeling
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that she was her soul mate.
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I believe that the relationship
with Ty Moore and Aileen
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was extremely important to Aileen.
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This was the first person
who was ever nice to her,
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and she falls in love.
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This is what she's always wanted.
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This is what she always looked for.
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- She loved you, didn't she?
- Yes.
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She said she'd do
anything for you, didn't she?
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Yes, she did.
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And she said this to
you on numerous occasions?
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Yeah.
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She even said
she'd die for you, didn't she, Ty?
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Yes, sir.
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They were living in a motel
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on the east coast
of Florida near Daytona.
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Aileen Wuornos would use prostitution
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as a way to make enough money
to give them a place to live
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and keep a roof over their head.
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Aileen always wanted
to take care of tyria.
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She always wanted to protect her,
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and if tyria was upset or depressed
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or they didn't have money to buy
whatever they may have wanted,
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she would go out,
and she would prostitute...
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...make enough money to purchase
whatever her and tyria wanted.
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Tyria and Aileen had been together
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for approximately 3 years.
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And then one night, in December of 1989,
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Wuornos collided with a person
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that would change her life forever,
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an electronics repairman
named Richard Mallory.
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Richard Mallory lived
in clearwater, Florida,
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over on the west coast.
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He was a guy that liked to party.
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He liked prostitutes.
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He would occasionally hire them,
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and on this weekend,
he saw a female hitchhiking.
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He stopped.
He picked her up.
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It was Aileen Wuornos.
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It started out apparently
as a job like any other,
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but somewhere along the line,
things went completely wrong.
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It wasn't in my
mind to go out and kill a guy.
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Something was different.
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Something changed.
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Something happened.
Something in the incident
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with Richard Mallory, and she snapped,
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and she bloomed.
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She became a killer.
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On the way to Daytona,
they stopped and picked up
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some beer and drank
as they went over there.
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It was dark out.
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They arrived to a place
she's pointed out,
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which is in a secluded area
north of Daytona beach,
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not on the beach,
out in the palmettos and pines.
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They pulled into this dirt cutoff.
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At some point, something went
wrong, and Aileen killed him.
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Aileen shot him four times.
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I had no choice.
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I didn't have a chance to stop
the clock, say,
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"shoot him in the leg.
Shoot him in the foot.
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Shoot him in the arm,"
and I'm not the greatest aimer.
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I did whatever I had to do
at the quickest moment
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and out just fast as possible.
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Richard Mallory was shot
with a .22-caliber pistol.
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It was obvious that
he didn't die instantly.
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You shoot someone with a
.22-caliber bullet,
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and unless you take out the brain,
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it's going to take a while.
It's like a large ice pick.
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It's a slow, painful, terrifying death
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because you know you're dying,
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and there's nothing you can do about it.
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We know that she
covered him with an old rug,
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and she left him there to rot,
but did she watch him die?
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Did she stand over him and taunt him?
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We don't know.
We'll never know that.
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After shooting Mr. Mallory,
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Aileen took his car
and all his belongings.
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She takes a radar detector,
the camera and later pawns them.
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She drove back to
the motel that tyria was at,
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and she actually told tyria
what she had done.
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We were sitting on the floor watching TV,
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and she just come out and said,
"I have something to tell you,"
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and I ask her what,
and she said that she had shot
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and killed a man that day.
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Richard Mallory's body
was found by two fellows
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that were scrapping
for metal in the woods.
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It was a normal day.
My buddy came to pick me up,
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and we're going out scrap metaling
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and decided to come out here
to this one trail.
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It's right off the beaten path.
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When we came in,
we seen buzzards out front.
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We didn't think nothing of it,
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just think it was a roadkill
out by the road.
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Then we started smelling this bad smell,
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and then came up on this carpet.
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Looked down there and seen
a hand sticking out of it.
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We just froze for a minute
and then started running,
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almost tripped on each other
getting out of there.
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Sure enough, it's Mallory's corpse.
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They report that.
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I believe he was
faceup when, when he was found.
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His pants and the zipper,
I believe, were open.
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After they find the body,
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the investigation is launched
on Mallory's murder.
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There was nothing special
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about Mr. Mallory's death
at the time.
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This was, unfortunately,
just a normal homicide.
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Police at that time had no idea
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what they were getting involved in.
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Don't have any clue that they're dealing
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with a serial killer, no.
None.
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When she came back,
she became the serial killer.
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She became the predator.
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She had a whole pack
that she had put together.
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There was about a 6-month hiatus
between Richard Mallory's death
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and the second victim, David Spears.
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If you ever looked at the
definition of a serial killer
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the FBI puts out,
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it says they have
a brief cooling-off period,
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and this would be hers.
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Now when she came back,
she became the serial killer.
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She became the predator.
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Victim number two was David Spears.
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He was a hard worker.
He was in construction.
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He was divorced from his wife,
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but they were talking about
getting back together.
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He was going to head over to Orlando
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and spend the weekend
with her, but he never arrived.
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Our deputies were on interstate 75,
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and they'd come upon his pickup truck
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that was disabled
on the side of the road.
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It was abandoned.
There was nobody around it.
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Within a couple of days,
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his body was found in citrus county,
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and this victim had been shot six times.
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When he was found,
he was naked on the ground.
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Now she would kill much more frequently.
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She would be shooting more
rounds into the individuals,
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- and the time was compressing.
- It was very rapid.
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From the second murder
to the third murder,
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it was only a couple of days.
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The third victim was a guy
by the name of Charles carskaddon.
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He was a rodeo worker
from the tampa area.
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He was driving back to Florida.
He never arrived.
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In carskaddon's case,
he was refusing to pay her,
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according to her, and that escalated,
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and he ended up getting
nine bullets for that.
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Most killers will tell you there's
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a certain amount of pleasure
and excitement
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in killing a human being.
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Instead of being repulsed,
they're fueled.
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I think that when Aileen killed
Richard, rage had come out,
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and I think as
the other murders progressed,
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the rage got more and more and more,
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in some cases, brutally,
emptying her gun in their chest.
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One victim, six
bullets, another victim, nine bullets.
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That's not just an ordinary murder.
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That's a brutal killing.
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Now one of the unique parts of this case
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was that she had
a specific m.0.
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She had a whole act
that she had put together,
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so she would be out there in her shorts,
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and she would hitch a ride, and once in,
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she would start with a story
about how she needed to go
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to wherever this person
looked to be going
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and that she needed to get money
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and wanted to know
if you could help me out.
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And if they were interested,
fine, but if they weren't,
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I'd just get out the next exit
and try again.
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She didn't kill everyone
that picked her up.
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It's typical of serial killers.
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There will be several opportunities,
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and they'll pass them up for some reason,
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and then they'll strike again.
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That's a hell of a lot
of men I went through
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before the next jerk came along,
and I used protection.
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I think the most surprising
aspect of Aileen Wuornos
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was how people warmed up to her.
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They had no idea what was
going on inside her head.
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Obviously if they did, they
wouldn't have picked her up.
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And that was the last ride
they ever took.
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We believe that the pattern would be that
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she was either posing for prostitution,
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or she would tell some of
the people she needed a ride,
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she had been stranded.
249
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Aileen Wuornos told stories
250
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about how she had two children
in south Florida,
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and that she needed a way
to get down there
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and if perhaps somebody
could help her out.
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"If you help me out,
I can help you out."
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She was commandeering
the vehicle at gunpoint,
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or the man was willingly
going into a secluded area
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to have sex with her.
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This was premeditated.
258
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This was thoughtful,
and this is, in her own way,
259
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they speak of organized
and disorganized serial killers.
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She was organized.
261
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And then there was either a robbery,
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or there was sexual activity
and a robbery
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and a murder
that went along with all of it.
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She actually drove away
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every victim's vehicle
from the crime scene.
266
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And she and tyria Moore
would use that car for a time
267
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until they saw fit to get rid of it.
268
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After robbing her victims, in some cases,
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she would take the possessions
to a pawn shop and get cash.
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There were also additional items taken,
271
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and those would be her
trophies and her souvenirs.
272
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Why would Aileen Wuornos
murder men and Rob them?
273
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Some of it was, I believe,
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to feed her desire
to have control over these men
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and to take everything that they had,
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their lives and their property,
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and I think that's evident by the fact
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that many of the things that she took
279
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were virtually valueless,
that she took them as trophies.
280
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That is a Mark of a serial killer.
281
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She was a killer who robbed,
not a robber who killed.
282
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And then things got worse.
283
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She had the upbringing
that no one would volunteer for.
284
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This was a highly dysfunctional family.
285
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She didn't know that those were
not her parents until later on.
286
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Aileen grew up in Troy, just like I did.
287
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We met when we were, like, 14, 15.
288
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We had a great time together.
289
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She was a great friend.
290
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She was funny as hell.
291
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She loved joking, eating pizza,
292
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playing pool, and stuff like that.
293
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Aileen's upbringing is really
a subject of some speculation.
294
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She certainly had the kind of upbringing
295
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that no one would volunteer for.
296
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Aileen Wuornos was from Troy, Michigan.
297
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She was born to a teenage mother,
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a woman who was a Finnish immigrant
299
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who married an American who was convicted
300
00:18:20,334 --> 00:18:23,834
and sent to prison
before she even knew him.
301
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Her father was a convicted sex offender.
302
00:18:26,876 --> 00:18:31,459
And he would eventually die
in prison from suicide,
303
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and her mother would later
abandon her as a child.
304
00:18:35,709 --> 00:18:41,375
And so Aileen was left to be
raised by her grandparents.
305
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Many people think of the grandparents
306
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as sort of a doting,
caring figure in their lives,
307
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but in the case of Aileen
Wuornos, that was not the case.
308
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This wasn't a loving extended family.
309
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This was a highly dysfunctional,
angry family.
310
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She didn't know that those were
not her parents until later on,
311
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and of course, it had
a traumatic effect on her.
312
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And her grandfather was
pretty strict with her.
313
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There are accounts of some pretty violent
314
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- or severe levels of discipline.
- Nobody really did want her...
315
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Her mother, her father, her grandparents.
316
00:19:19,042 --> 00:19:21,584
And that may have played
a significant role
317
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in her behavioral problems growing up
318
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and well into adulthood.
319
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A lot of antisocial behaviors...
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Stealing, arson, things of that
nature, difficulty at school.
321
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At 12, she was raped,
and she got pregnant.
322
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In those days, that shames the family,
323
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so they put her
in an unweds' place down in.
324
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- Detroit until she had the baby.
- The baby is born,
325
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and the baby is immediately
taken away from her.
326
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She put her son up for adoption,
327
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and to this day, we don't know
what happened to him.
328
00:19:59,083 --> 00:20:00,709
And then things got worse.
329
00:20:00,792 --> 00:20:03,667
They all turned against
her after she had that baby.
330
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It was horrible.
331
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Kids hated her,
said she did that deliberate.
332
00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,959
She just needed somebody
to be a friend to her.
333
00:20:15,334 --> 00:20:19,334
She got into a series
of problems with her grandfather,
334
00:20:19,417 --> 00:20:23,209
to the point where he threw her
out of the house.
335
00:20:23,292 --> 00:20:25,292
She had nowhere to go.
336
00:20:25,375 --> 00:20:30,083
Aileen had to sleep in the cars
outside, which really sucked
337
00:20:30,167 --> 00:20:34,375
because it was really cold,
especially when winter come.
338
00:20:37,584 --> 00:20:39,584
She moved into some nearby woods,
339
00:20:39,667 --> 00:20:44,250
where she was able to learn
to survive on her own outside.
340
00:20:44,334 --> 00:20:47,500
One of the ways she did that
is through crime.
341
00:20:47,584 --> 00:20:50,792
So that's when she become a prostitute
342
00:20:50,876 --> 00:20:53,834
and living in the woods and all that.
343
00:20:53,918 --> 00:20:56,709
She would do her prostitution at night.
344
00:20:56,792 --> 00:20:59,459
Some of the guys would actually
get hotels
345
00:20:59,542 --> 00:21:01,417
and let her stay there.
346
00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,500
When you look at the childhood
of Aileen Wuornos,
347
00:21:04,584 --> 00:21:07,167
I don't think anyone
can disagree with this.
348
00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:09,417
She just didn't get a fair shake.
349
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You play the cards that you're dealt,
350
00:21:11,417 --> 00:21:13,250
and the cards that she was dealt,
351
00:21:13,334 --> 00:21:16,667
they were not like
the average person growing up.
352
00:21:16,751 --> 00:21:19,042
She just drifted and lived on the streets
353
00:21:19,125 --> 00:21:22,626
until she finally ended up
moving to Florida.
354
00:21:24,876 --> 00:21:27,125
At the age of 20,
Aileen married a gentleman
355
00:21:27,209 --> 00:21:30,709
by the name of Lewis fell,
who was 76 at the time,
356
00:21:30,792 --> 00:21:33,542
but about 9 weeks into the marriage,
357
00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:35,083
they got into an altercation.
358
00:21:35,167 --> 00:21:38,375
And, in fact, he alleged
that she beat him up
359
00:21:38,459 --> 00:21:39,876
with his own cane
360
00:21:39,959 --> 00:21:42,751
and had to get
a restraining order against her.
361
00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:47,083
He filed for divorce,
and that marriage was over.
362
00:21:47,167 --> 00:21:50,459
There's no question that
she had some personality problems.
363
00:21:50,542 --> 00:21:53,250
She had a really tough time
dealing with other people,
364
00:21:53,334 --> 00:21:57,709
being in the presence of others
in normal circumstances.
365
00:21:57,792 --> 00:22:01,959
She was also known to have
a very hot temper.
366
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As she grew into adulthood,
367
00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:07,375
she was getting arrested
for brawls in bars.
368
00:22:07,459 --> 00:22:10,083
She could go from a normal conversation
369
00:22:10,167 --> 00:22:13,292
to just a violent outrage
at the flip of a switch,
370
00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:17,918
and there was no real telling
when it was going to happen.
371
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,667
I think it kind of grew over time
372
00:22:20,751 --> 00:22:23,209
and maybe got a little bit worse.
373
00:22:23,292 --> 00:22:24,876
Aileen had a criminal history,
374
00:22:24,959 --> 00:22:29,959
which involved crimes from
forgery of checks to battery,
375
00:22:30,042 --> 00:22:33,209
armed robbery, and weapons charges,
376
00:22:33,292 --> 00:22:35,792
so she was not a novice
to the criminal system.
377
00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:39,918
She never really drew
a lot of attention from the police
378
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,459
to herself throughout all these years.
379
00:22:42,542 --> 00:22:45,667
I never thought for a second
she'd kill somebody,
380
00:22:45,751 --> 00:22:48,751
for crying out loud.
381
00:22:48,834 --> 00:22:52,167
Victim number four, the pivotal case.
382
00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:56,042
He had planned on passing out
some bibles along the way.
383
00:22:56,125 --> 00:23:00,042
He had the Bible,
and she did that anyways.
384
00:23:00,125 --> 00:23:03,417
How cold can you possibly be?
385
00:23:13,792 --> 00:23:16,417
Welcome back to
"very scary people."
386
00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,250
By the summer of 1990,
387
00:23:18,334 --> 00:23:21,375
Aileen Wuornos had gunned down
three men in cold blood
388
00:23:21,459 --> 00:23:24,792
but left very few clues
on her trail of terror.
389
00:23:24,876 --> 00:23:26,459
She went on her homicidal rampage
390
00:23:26,542 --> 00:23:29,000
before DNA and fingerprint databases
391
00:23:29,083 --> 00:23:30,751
had been fully established,
392
00:23:30,834 --> 00:23:34,709
so Florida investigators
had yet to link the cases.
393
00:23:34,792 --> 00:23:36,584
Before they did figure it out,
394
00:23:36,667 --> 00:23:39,334
Wuornos would slaughter four more people.
395
00:23:56,792 --> 00:23:59,959
Victim number four,
which I call the pivotal case...
396
00:24:00,042 --> 00:24:03,334
Peter siems was a man
living in Jupiter, Florida,
397
00:24:03,417 --> 00:24:05,417
and he was on his way
to drive up to New Jersey
398
00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:07,000
to visit his brother.
399
00:24:07,083 --> 00:24:10,209
He had planned on passing out
some bibles along the way,
400
00:24:10,292 --> 00:24:12,083
so he had them in his trunk.
401
00:24:12,167 --> 00:24:16,542
He had stopped somewhere,
we believe for gas,
402
00:24:16,626 --> 00:24:19,042
and that was where he ran into Aileen.
403
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,167
He had the Bible,
and she did that anyways.
404
00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:39,959
How cold can you possibly be?
405
00:24:40,042 --> 00:24:43,209
That's as cold as you can possibly be.
406
00:24:46,125 --> 00:24:48,083
I think there were a number of factors
407
00:24:48,167 --> 00:24:50,167
that allowed her to get away with this.
408
00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:52,792
One of the biggest
problems investigators faced...
409
00:24:52,876 --> 00:24:55,584
That she was killing people
all over the place.
410
00:24:55,667 --> 00:24:58,292
The first three killings
were in volusia county,
411
00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:00,500
citrus county and pasco county,
412
00:25:00,584 --> 00:25:04,000
and they all used different labs
to do their ballistics testing.
413
00:25:04,083 --> 00:25:06,417
If they had all been sent
to the same lab,
414
00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,125
they might have caught it
a little bit earlier.
415
00:25:09,209 --> 00:25:11,292
The vehicles were also dispersed,
416
00:25:11,375 --> 00:25:14,125
and when she abandoned these vehicles,
417
00:25:14,209 --> 00:25:16,250
she would take off the license plate.
418
00:25:16,334 --> 00:25:19,667
She would remove any bumper
stickers or anything
419
00:25:19,751 --> 00:25:22,042
that might identify the car.
420
00:25:22,125 --> 00:25:27,334
She would spray the dashboard
and wheel and door handles.
421
00:25:27,417 --> 00:25:30,542
She'd thoroughly clean the car down.
422
00:25:30,626 --> 00:25:36,500
Aileen did a really good job
of covering her tracks.
423
00:25:36,584 --> 00:25:39,334
They were things that
all slowed down the process.
424
00:25:39,417 --> 00:25:43,500
It just took a long time
to link these cases together.
425
00:25:48,459 --> 00:25:52,417
Victim number five was Troy burress.
426
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,876
My dad, he was a really good person.
427
00:25:55,959 --> 00:25:59,000
He loved family.
He loved pets.
428
00:25:59,083 --> 00:26:02,709
I mean, he had a really good personality.
429
00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:05,083
He was where he wanted to be in life,
430
00:26:05,167 --> 00:26:09,751
and he got a job at gilchrist sausage.
431
00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:14,459
He traveled different places,
made stops for the company.
432
00:26:14,542 --> 00:26:17,167
He was all set to retire.
433
00:26:17,250 --> 00:26:19,542
Usually after his routes,
he would go home.
434
00:26:19,626 --> 00:26:23,083
That night, he was supposed
to be at my house.
435
00:26:23,167 --> 00:26:25,000
He never made it.
436
00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:28,918
Mr. Burress had been out
making deliveries for his company,
437
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,250
and somewhere around Seville,
Florida, on his way back in,
438
00:26:32,334 --> 00:26:35,626
in the afternoon, he disappeared.
439
00:26:35,709 --> 00:26:37,042
I was petrified.
440
00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:40,167
Nobody knows where he's at
or who he's with.
441
00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:42,292
It just wasn't like him to,
442
00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:45,000
you know, just disappear like that.
443
00:26:48,834 --> 00:26:52,209
Aileen had somehow encountered him
444
00:26:52,292 --> 00:26:53,709
and got a ride from him,
445
00:26:53,792 --> 00:26:59,459
and he gave it to her,
not looking for sex at all.
446
00:26:59,542 --> 00:27:03,751
Do you know why this
woman targeted your brother?
447
00:27:03,834 --> 00:27:08,417
I think because he was
a really friendly man
448
00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,584
because he did work in sales a lot.
449
00:27:11,667 --> 00:27:13,250
He liked people, and he would...
450
00:27:13,334 --> 00:27:16,375
He loved to talk to his... almost anyone.
451
00:27:16,459 --> 00:27:18,584
And didn't you caution him just that day
452
00:27:18,667 --> 00:27:20,542
- or the day before to...
- The day before.
453
00:27:20,626 --> 00:27:22,167
...not to pick up
hitchhikers?
454
00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:26,709
And I said, "well, you know,
you used to pick up hitchhikers.
455
00:27:26,792 --> 00:27:28,959
You can't do that anymore.
It's too dangerous."
456
00:27:29,042 --> 00:27:32,334
He said, "oh, I know,
but I hate to pass someone up
457
00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:34,834
if they need a ride."
458
00:27:34,918 --> 00:27:38,375
He always said he would
always want his girls
459
00:27:38,459 --> 00:27:40,542
to have help if they needed it.
460
00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:43,042
He was that kind of man.
461
00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:53,500
I went up to ocala,
and we looked on his routes,
462
00:27:53,584 --> 00:27:56,125
you know, the roads that he drove,
463
00:27:56,209 --> 00:28:01,167
and it was 4 days before we found him,
464
00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:03,959
and his body was deteriorating.
465
00:28:04,042 --> 00:28:07,209
His body was found in
the ocala national forest.
466
00:28:07,292 --> 00:28:10,626
Right there by
the pine tree to your left.
467
00:28:10,709 --> 00:28:15,334
I was devastated, the fact that
I couldn't talk to him anymore.
468
00:28:15,417 --> 00:28:17,417
I couldn't see him anymore.
469
00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,083
I couldn't call him.
470
00:28:19,167 --> 00:28:21,459
To this day, I have a hard time.
471
00:28:21,542 --> 00:28:26,125
My dad was 50 years old
when he was taken.
472
00:28:26,209 --> 00:28:31,459
He was happy, and then his life
was taken in a horrible,
473
00:28:31,542 --> 00:28:33,417
mean, evil way.
474
00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:38,417
He had two children
and six grandchildren.
475
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,834
He missed them growing up.
476
00:28:40,918 --> 00:28:44,042
This was a case that we would
kind of tie things
477
00:28:44,125 --> 00:28:46,375
together with other departments
478
00:28:46,459 --> 00:28:48,125
because as we were investigating
479
00:28:48,209 --> 00:28:50,125
the death of Mr. Burress,
we found
480
00:28:50,209 --> 00:28:52,417
that there were at least two other cases
481
00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:55,209
involving a .22-caliber killing.
482
00:28:59,876 --> 00:29:03,292
We had a series of meetings
at our headquarters.
483
00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:06,709
And there was a pattern emerging
484
00:29:06,792 --> 00:29:09,042
that individually they hadn't seen.
485
00:29:09,125 --> 00:29:12,083
There were some jaws
that dropped and hit the floor.
486
00:29:31,792 --> 00:29:33,792
One of the things about serial killers...
487
00:29:33,876 --> 00:29:36,334
They're kind of, like, in a chrysalis,
488
00:29:36,417 --> 00:29:38,918
like a butterfly
living in a little chrysalis,
489
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,334
and once they make the first murder,
490
00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:45,042
they carry something from it
to every other murder.
491
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000
A monthly bulletin came out
from the Florida department
492
00:30:06,083 --> 00:30:08,292
of law enforcement, and in this bulletin,
493
00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:12,125
it had other counties
had unsolved homicides,
494
00:30:12,209 --> 00:30:15,751
and it was there that
the connection was made.
495
00:30:15,834 --> 00:30:19,876
Other counties had homicides
where the crime scenes,
496
00:30:19,959 --> 00:30:21,459
the modus operandi,
497
00:30:21,542 --> 00:30:24,334
the victimology was very similar.
498
00:30:24,417 --> 00:30:26,876
There was a pattern emerging
499
00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:30,125
that individually they hadn't seen.
500
00:30:30,209 --> 00:30:31,417
It became obvious
501
00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:36,125
that these were not
random acts of violence.
502
00:30:36,209 --> 00:30:38,667
One of the
bell-ringers in this whole case
503
00:30:38,751 --> 00:30:40,334
from an investigative point of view
504
00:30:40,417 --> 00:30:45,918
was the weapon used,
which was a .22-caliber pistol,
505
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,125
and it raised
a couple red flags by itself.
506
00:30:48,209 --> 00:30:49,584
In the homicides that I've worked,
507
00:30:49,667 --> 00:30:51,834
it was typically a larger-caliber handgun
508
00:30:51,918 --> 00:30:56,083
like a .357 or a .45
or a 9-millimeter.
509
00:30:56,167 --> 00:31:01,042
The victims were all white,
middle-aged, and older males.
510
00:31:01,125 --> 00:31:02,375
They were all traveling on
511
00:31:02,459 --> 00:31:04,500
or near major roadways
in central Florida.
512
00:31:04,584 --> 00:31:10,334
Their bodies were found in
secluded quasi-rural locations,
513
00:31:10,417 --> 00:31:12,459
and there was a pattern of overkill,
514
00:31:12,542 --> 00:31:18,042
meaning more bullets than
necessary to kill the person.
515
00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:27,250
After they were killed,
their vehicles were taken,
516
00:31:27,334 --> 00:31:29,292
and in each case,
517
00:31:29,375 --> 00:31:33,042
something was missing
from the victim's vehicle.
518
00:31:35,918 --> 00:31:37,959
Several of the
investigators start talking.
519
00:31:38,042 --> 00:31:39,751
They make some phone calls to each other,
520
00:31:39,834 --> 00:31:42,042
and then a task force is put together,
521
00:31:42,125 --> 00:31:44,125
and now things are on track
522
00:31:44,209 --> 00:31:47,751
for discovering who did these murders.
523
00:31:47,834 --> 00:31:52,375
We had a series of multiple
meetings at our headquarters,
524
00:31:52,459 --> 00:31:55,125
and we had a lot of seasoned detectives
525
00:31:55,209 --> 00:31:58,709
that all came together
from multiple counties,
526
00:31:58,792 --> 00:32:01,083
and we would share ideas,
share information.
527
00:32:01,167 --> 00:32:04,250
We were looking for any
connection that we could find.
528
00:32:04,334 --> 00:32:06,500
We didn't know whether it was one
529
00:32:06,584 --> 00:32:09,417
or more people operating together.
530
00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,959
All we knew is, there was
a pattern of killings going on,
531
00:32:12,042 --> 00:32:15,375
and we couldn't figure out
how that was occurring.
532
00:32:15,459 --> 00:32:16,751
It was extremely frustrating,
533
00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:18,584
and I can remember
sitting there thinking,
534
00:32:18,667 --> 00:32:20,667
"how come we're not
coming up with anything?"
535
00:32:20,751 --> 00:32:22,959
She was able to
get away with this for a long time
536
00:32:23,042 --> 00:32:24,542
because police initially weren't looking
537
00:32:24,626 --> 00:32:26,959
for somebody like Aileen Wuornos.
538
00:32:29,042 --> 00:32:34,167
Investigators in the first two
think they're looking for a guy.
539
00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,334
We just didn't know.
540
00:32:39,167 --> 00:32:41,042
But there was one unique feature.
541
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:45,500
Every car that we recovered
had the driver's side seat
542
00:32:45,584 --> 00:32:48,083
in the forward-most position,
543
00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:51,542
and what we started thinking
was because of that,
544
00:32:51,626 --> 00:32:55,417
maybe we're looking for somebody
that's smaller in stature.
545
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:59,209
And police started to
figure out that there had to be somebody
546
00:32:59,292 --> 00:33:01,334
that had the ability to get these victims
547
00:33:01,417 --> 00:33:04,959
close enough to them where that
they could be vulnerable
548
00:33:05,042 --> 00:33:10,292
and be killed and robbed
in these remote locations.
549
00:33:10,375 --> 00:33:12,125
Some of the victims
were pretty large guys.
550
00:33:12,209 --> 00:33:14,667
Who would get in their personal,
intimate space,
551
00:33:14,751 --> 00:33:17,626
who would they let their guard down for?
552
00:33:17,709 --> 00:33:20,000
It's easy today
when you look back, saying,
553
00:33:20,083 --> 00:33:22,709
"hindsight, 20/20, it should
have been common sense."
554
00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:25,334
You know, but it's just that
we have that stereotype,
555
00:33:25,417 --> 00:33:29,459
maybe, if you will, that was,
you know, a barrier to us.
556
00:33:32,626 --> 00:33:36,042
Another tell in this pattern
557
00:33:36,125 --> 00:33:38,667
would be how the victims were found.
558
00:33:38,751 --> 00:33:40,500
Some of them were nude.
559
00:33:40,584 --> 00:33:45,918
There was perhaps some sexual
component to these crimes.
560
00:33:47,709 --> 00:33:50,584
In one of the meetings,
attending was dayle hinman,
561
00:33:50,667 --> 00:33:54,209
who is an FBI-trained criminal profiler.
562
00:33:54,292 --> 00:33:57,334
When we laid all the facts
of these cases that we knew
563
00:33:57,417 --> 00:34:02,709
at that time on the table
for dayle to analyze and review.
564
00:34:02,792 --> 00:34:05,709
She said, "from what I can see here,
565
00:34:05,792 --> 00:34:09,918
you're really looking at,
most likely, a female."
566
00:34:11,584 --> 00:34:14,000
There were some jaws
that dropped and hit the floor.
567
00:34:14,083 --> 00:34:16,459
It was, it was a "wow" moment.
568
00:34:16,542 --> 00:34:17,751
It really was.
569
00:34:17,834 --> 00:34:21,042
Now this started to take
some shape into the fact
570
00:34:21,125 --> 00:34:22,417
that we could be looking for women.
571
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:23,709
We just didn't know where to look.
572
00:34:23,792 --> 00:34:25,209
We didn't know where to turn.
573
00:34:25,292 --> 00:34:28,083
The biggest break of the case
came months earlier,
574
00:34:28,167 --> 00:34:31,083
back in July of 1990.
575
00:34:31,167 --> 00:34:34,125
We just didn't know it yet.
576
00:34:34,209 --> 00:34:37,542
Initially, Peter siems was
a missing persons case.
577
00:34:37,626 --> 00:34:39,375
No luck sweeping out here this morning.
578
00:34:39,459 --> 00:34:42,918
A witness came forward
and said that they saw two females
579
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,083
operating a car that wrecked.
580
00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:48,083
And that's when
the whole dam started to break.
581
00:35:02,459 --> 00:35:06,209
Victim number six
was Mr. Humphreys.
582
00:35:08,667 --> 00:35:11,751
Richard Humphreys was a retired
583
00:35:11,834 --> 00:35:15,042
military, highly decorated officer.
584
00:35:15,125 --> 00:35:17,292
He was the police chief in a small town.
585
00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:20,959
He'd served there, retired,
and he'd moved to Florida
586
00:35:21,042 --> 00:35:25,667
and took a job with the state
of Florida social services.
587
00:35:25,751 --> 00:35:28,250
And he was going out
and doing home checks,
588
00:35:28,334 --> 00:35:31,083
and somewhere along the way,
589
00:35:31,167 --> 00:35:35,042
something happened to him
on the way back to the office.
590
00:35:35,125 --> 00:35:37,834
He had stopped at a truck
stop to get something to drink
591
00:35:37,918 --> 00:35:40,792
at the end of his work day.
592
00:35:40,876 --> 00:35:42,584
We were able to find on his body
593
00:35:42,667 --> 00:35:44,918
that there was a bruise
on the upper torso,
594
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000
and we identified this as a bruise
595
00:35:47,083 --> 00:35:49,709
from the barrel of her gun.
596
00:35:49,792 --> 00:35:52,834
It appeared that once he had
purchased that soda,
597
00:35:52,918 --> 00:35:54,626
he got back in his car,
598
00:35:54,709 --> 00:35:57,209
and Aileen got in the passenger side
599
00:35:57,292 --> 00:36:01,250
and put the gun in his ribs
and told him to start driving.
600
00:36:01,334 --> 00:36:03,709
That's a predator.
That's her abducting him.
601
00:36:03,792 --> 00:36:05,125
They get off the interstate.
602
00:36:05,209 --> 00:36:07,667
They ended up at the end of a cul-de-sac,
603
00:36:07,751 --> 00:36:09,209
and that's where Mr. Humphreys
604
00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:16,375
had been shot multiple times
and had been left to die.
605
00:36:16,459 --> 00:36:19,459
At the crime scene, you could
see his pants pockets
606
00:36:19,542 --> 00:36:22,834
were pulled inside-out,
which was clearly suggestive
607
00:36:22,918 --> 00:36:25,876
that the crime of robbery
had also taken place.
608
00:36:25,959 --> 00:36:29,709
Some of this personal property
was found about 4 weeks later
609
00:36:29,792 --> 00:36:31,876
in south lake county.
610
00:36:34,334 --> 00:36:37,500
The final victim was Walter jeno Antonio.
611
00:36:37,584 --> 00:36:39,292
He never arrived back home.
612
00:36:39,375 --> 00:36:42,626
His body was found in Dixie county.
613
00:36:42,709 --> 00:36:45,083
Walter was one of Aileen's tricks,
614
00:36:45,167 --> 00:36:49,709
and she had gotten him out in the woods,
615
00:36:49,792 --> 00:36:52,042
and he was stripped.
616
00:36:52,125 --> 00:36:56,876
He had taken all his clothes off
preparing to have sex,
617
00:36:56,959 --> 00:37:00,000
and he got killed.
618
00:37:03,542 --> 00:37:08,083
And he was just left
on his hands and knees naked
619
00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:10,667
in front of an old oak tree.
620
00:37:12,584 --> 00:37:15,334
She set up a theatre, a scenario.
621
00:37:15,417 --> 00:37:20,042
If you enter into that scenario,
then you could die.
622
00:37:20,125 --> 00:37:22,125
This ended up with seven people dead.
623
00:37:22,209 --> 00:37:26,167
Well, why would she do it?
624
00:37:26,250 --> 00:37:28,334
Pure evil.
625
00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:35,000
By the fall of 1990,
626
00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:37,792
we had these cases
that we were reviewing,
627
00:37:37,876 --> 00:37:42,375
and we were pretty confident,
based upon a number of issues,
628
00:37:42,459 --> 00:37:44,542
that these cases were, in fact, related.
629
00:37:44,626 --> 00:37:47,459
The big thing was, "who was
committing the murders?"
630
00:37:47,542 --> 00:37:50,709
They were needing a break,
and they didn't realize
631
00:37:50,792 --> 00:37:54,959
that the break had already
happened back in July.
632
00:37:55,042 --> 00:37:59,751
July of 1990, we had this case
involving Peter siems.
633
00:37:59,834 --> 00:38:03,209
Initially, Peter siems was
a missing persons case,
634
00:38:03,292 --> 00:38:04,584
not a murder case,
635
00:38:04,667 --> 00:38:07,584
and in fact, they never
did recover his body.
636
00:38:07,667 --> 00:38:09,334
No luck since we've been
out here this morning.
637
00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:12,918
But the investigators realized
there's some similarities
638
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,083
between Peter siems'
and the rest of the cases.
639
00:38:16,167 --> 00:38:18,292
They have no body, but they have a car
640
00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:20,500
and a car that had been crashed,
641
00:38:20,584 --> 00:38:22,417
and there were witnesses to the crash
642
00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:25,125
who saw two women leaving the scene.
643
00:38:25,209 --> 00:38:27,918
A witness came forward and said
that they saw two females
644
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,083
in orange Springs area
operating a car that wrecked.
645
00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:38,584
So the witnesses see this car crash,
646
00:38:38,667 --> 00:38:41,584
and two women get out
yelling at each other.
647
00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:44,667
One of them looks like she's injured.
648
00:38:44,751 --> 00:38:47,459
Instead of accepting help and asking
649
00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:50,542
for the police or an ambulance,
650
00:38:50,626 --> 00:38:53,792
they rushed away in a suspicious fashion.
651
00:38:53,876 --> 00:38:56,667
The detective had the foresight
to go ahead and interview
652
00:38:56,751 --> 00:39:01,792
the witnesses then sit down
with our composite artist...
653
00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:09,834
...and two composites
were generated.
654
00:39:09,918 --> 00:39:13,959
That was how we ultimately
put things together.
655
00:39:14,042 --> 00:39:16,000
A lot of time, just good
old-fashioned cop
656
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,250
instinct that you go with.
657
00:39:18,334 --> 00:39:20,000
Them being in Peter siems' car,
658
00:39:20,083 --> 00:39:21,584
where their little drunken afternoon
659
00:39:21,667 --> 00:39:25,417
out of driving led to
the biggest break in the case
660
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,751
of starting to figure out who it
was that was behind
661
00:39:28,834 --> 00:39:30,792
the .22-caliber gun.
662
00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:41,125
So the group now has
a picture related to the siems case
663
00:39:41,209 --> 00:39:44,375
that might be the person
who's doing all of this.
664
00:39:48,083 --> 00:39:51,167
As we were investigating
the death of Mr. Humphreys,
665
00:39:51,250 --> 00:39:54,042
we found a location
that he had stopped at,
666
00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,125
and we took a chance.
667
00:39:56,209 --> 00:39:59,959
We had brought the composites
from the missing persons
668
00:40:00,042 --> 00:40:01,459
case involving Peter siems.
669
00:40:01,542 --> 00:40:04,959
We showed them to the clerk
at the convenience store,
670
00:40:05,042 --> 00:40:09,083
and she said that there were
a couple of girls in there
671
00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:12,292
that resembled the composites
that we had.
672
00:40:12,375 --> 00:40:14,542
All of a sudden, they had two suspects,
673
00:40:14,626 --> 00:40:16,375
and they could put that out to the public
674
00:40:16,459 --> 00:40:18,083
and get help and find them.
675
00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,709
That was a big turning point.
676
00:40:20,792 --> 00:40:23,918
We made the decision, "we're
going to have to go public."
677
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,417
"So let's put it out there."
678
00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:29,709
And that's when the whole dam
started to break.
679
00:40:29,792 --> 00:40:32,417
"The following described
suspects may be responsible
680
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,876
for as many as 12 murders
in Florida and Georgia."
681
00:40:35,959 --> 00:40:37,876
Went immediately to the press,
682
00:40:37,959 --> 00:40:41,709
and all over the state
of Florida and elsewhere.
683
00:40:41,792 --> 00:40:44,000
We had composites on the news
684
00:40:44,083 --> 00:40:46,250
and in the papers of two females.
685
00:40:46,334 --> 00:40:48,834
There was literally a feeding frenzy.
686
00:40:48,918 --> 00:40:50,918
This was a huge deal
because there had never been
687
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,542
a female serial killer.
688
00:40:52,626 --> 00:40:54,667
The tall blonde, suspect number one,
689
00:40:54,751 --> 00:40:58,959
is most vocal, a white female
between 20 and 40 years of age
690
00:40:59,042 --> 00:41:01,667
between 5-foot-8 and 5-11.
691
00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:05,709
A woman killing middle-aged
white men with a gun,
692
00:41:05,792 --> 00:41:09,709
- that gets people excited.
- We started to get tips.
693
00:41:09,792 --> 00:41:11,667
She's well-built, a big girl.
694
00:41:11,751 --> 00:41:14,167
But the problem was,
they didn't know where she was.
695
00:41:14,250 --> 00:41:16,083
She has straight blonde hair.
696
00:41:16,167 --> 00:41:18,834
How do you get this person off the street
697
00:41:18,918 --> 00:41:21,042
before they kill again?
698
00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:26,918
What happened at this point is,
we needed a miracle.
699
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,375
- They had her in sight.
- I wasn't born bad.
700
00:41:30,459 --> 00:41:32,417
You guys got it, see,
I'm trying to tell you, man,
701
00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,042
they lied.
They lied so bad to you all.
702
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:45,000
Investigators took a big risk
in that fall of 1990.
703
00:41:45,083 --> 00:41:47,334
They believed the two women
in the composite drawings
704
00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:49,959
were somehow connected
to the serial killings,
705
00:41:50,042 --> 00:41:51,584
but they had no physical evidence,
706
00:41:51,667 --> 00:41:54,584
and they had no idea
who these women were.
707
00:41:54,667 --> 00:41:57,751
Ultimately, it would take
some old-fashioned police work
708
00:41:57,834 --> 00:42:01,792
and a lover's betrayal to bring
this vicious killer down.
709
00:42:01,876 --> 00:42:04,834
The unbelievable story of how
Aileen Wuornos was captured,
710
00:42:04,918 --> 00:42:08,167
next time, on part 2
of "monster made."
711
00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:11,000
Thanks for watching
"very scary people."
712
00:42:11,083 --> 00:42:13,167
Goodnight.
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