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Damore: There are those that believe
that when serial killers make their first kill,
that opens the floodgates.
Like an animal might or a wolf
might when it's had a taste of blood,
it's going to come back for it again.
And in Aileen Wuornos' case,
the ease in which she had gotten away with it,
I think, reinforced her belief
that this was an easier way of making money.
Here, she could take everything.
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Welcome to "very scary people."
I'm Donnie wahlberg.
She was known as the "damsel of death,"
one of the few female serial killers in American history,
Aileen Wuornos,
a complex, misunderstood misfit with a hair-trigger temper,
whose life and murder spree was portrayed in the 2003 film
"monster" by charlize theron.
But the true story of how and why
this woman gunned down seven men is even more dramatic,
compelling, and scary than the fictional film about her life.
How did she become a vicious killer?
Were the seeds of violence planted
in her sad and unusually brutal childhood?
And how did investigators finally catch her?
Here is part 1 of "monster made."
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A serial killer tops our look at stories
from around the country tonight...
Aileen Wuornos, known as the "highway hooker"
because that's where she picked up her victims,
also known as the "damsel of death" for what she did to them.
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Jarvis: On the 4th of July, Aileen and tyria were on their way over
to Daytona beach to watch the fireworks.
They were going through the ocala national forest,
and tyria was driving.
They had noticed a sign on the side of the road
that indicated that there was a Indian reservation,
so they took a little detour.
As tyria starts to head back,
she's driving a little bit too fast
to make a curve in the road,
and the car goes off the side of the road...
...turns onto its passenger side and slides.
Comes to rest on its tires.
Aileen knew the seriousness of the situation.
She told tyria that they needed to leave immediately,
hide the car, because this was a dead man's car.
The accident that happened in Peter siems' car
probably was an act of fate.
Had it not been for the accident,
I'm convinced we'd have other dead men.
Reynolds: She could've gotten away with it.
In 1989, Aileen Wuornos was making her living,
such as it was,
as a prostitute on interstate exits and entrances
in central Florida.
I done asked her, you know, why she had turned to prostitution.
She was able to make a living otherwise.
Her answer was, "it was more fun than working in a restaurant."
Damore: She was in a relationship with tyria Moore.
Jarvis: Aileen met tyria in one of the bars in the Daytona area,
and Aileen developed this feeling
that she was her soul mate.
I believe that the relationship with Ty Moore and Aileen
was extremely important to Aileen.
This was the first person who was ever nice to her,
and she falls in love.
This is what she's always wanted.
This is what she always looked for.
- She loved you, didn't she? - Yes.
Attorney: She said she'd do anything for you, didn't she?
Moore: Yes, she did.
Attorney: And she said this to you on numerous occasions?
Yeah.
Attorney: She even said she'd die for you, didn't she, Ty?
Yes, sir.
They were living in a motel
on the east coast of Florida near Daytona.
Trenkmann: Aileen Wuornos would use prostitution
as a way to make enough money to give them a place to live
and keep a roof over their head.
Aileen always wanted to take care of tyria.
She always wanted to protect her,
and if tyria was upset or depressed
or they didn't have money to buy whatever they may have wanted,
she would go out, and she would prostitute...
...make enough money to purchase whatever her and tyria wanted.
Kassewitz: Tyria and Aileen had been together
for approximately 3 years.
Trenkmann: And then one night, in December of 1989,
Wuornos collided with a person
that would change her life forever,
an electronics repairman named Richard Mallory.
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Richard Mallory lived in clearwater, Florida,
over on the west coast.
He was a guy that liked to party.
He liked prostitutes.
He would occasionally hire them,
and on this weekend, he saw a female hitchhiking.
He stopped. He picked her up.
It was Aileen Wuornos.
It started out apparently as a job like any other,
but somewhere along the line, things went completely wrong.
Wuornos: It wasn't in my mind to go out and kill a guy.
Something was different.
Something changed.
Something happened. Something in the incident
with Richard Mallory, and she snapped,
and she bloomed.
She became a killer.
On the way to Daytona, they stopped and picked up
some beer and drank as they went over there.
It was dark out.
They arrived to a place she's pointed out,
which is in a secluded area north of Daytona beach,
not on the beach, out in the palmettos and pines.
They pulled into this dirt cutoff.
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At some point, something went wrong, and Aileen killed him.
Aileen shot him four times.
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Wuornos: I had no choice.
I didn't have a chance to stop the clock, say,
"shoot him in the leg. Shoot him in the foot.
Shoot him in the arm," and I'm not the greatest aimer.
I did whatever I had to do at the quickest moment
and out just fast as possible.
Richard Mallory was shot with a .22-caliber pistol.
It was obvious that he didn't die instantly.
You shoot someone with a .22-caliber bullet,
and unless you take out the brain,
it's going to take a while. It's like a large ice pick.
It's a slow, painful, terrifying death
because you know you're dying,
and there's nothing you can do about it.
Damore: We know that she covered him with an old rug,
and she left him there to rot, but did she watch him die?
Did she stand over him and taunt him?
We don't know. We'll never know that.
After shooting Mr. Mallory,
Aileen took his car and all his belongings.
She takes a radar detector, the camera and later pawns them.
Jarvis: She drove back to the motel that tyria was at,
and she actually told tyria what she had done.
We were sitting on the floor watching TV,
and she just come out and said, "I have something to tell you,"
and I ask her what, and she said that she had shot
and killed a man that day.
Damore: Richard Mallory's body was found by two fellows
that were scrapping for metal in the woods.
It was a normal day. My buddy came to pick me up,
and we're going out scrap metaling
and decided to come out here to this one trail.
It's right off the beaten path.
When we came in, we seen buzzards out front.
We didn't think nothing of it,
just think it was a roadkill out by the road.
Then we started smelling this bad smell,
and then came up on this carpet.
Looked down there and seen a hand sticking out of it.
We just froze for a minute and then started running,
almost tripped on each other getting out of there.
Sure enough, it's Mallory's corpse.
They report that.
Damore: I believe he was faceup when, when he was found.
His pants and the zipper, I believe, were open.
After they find the body,
the investigation is launched on Mallory's murder.
There was nothing special
about Mr. Mallory's death at the time.
This was, unfortunately, just a normal homicide.
Police at that time had no idea
what they were getting involved in.
Reynolds: Don't have any clue that they're dealing
with a serial killer, no. None.
When she came back, she became the serial killer.
She became the predator.
She had a whole pack that she had put together.
There was about a 6-month hiatus between Richard Mallory's death
and the second victim, David Spears.
If you ever looked at the definition of a serial killer
the FBI puts out,
it says they have a brief cooling-off period,
and this would be hers.
Now when she came back, she became the serial killer.
She became the predator.
Victim number two was David Spears.
He was a hard worker. He was in construction.
He was divorced from his wife,
but they were talking about getting back together.
He was going to head over to Orlando
and spend the weekend with her, but he never arrived.
Our deputies were on interstate 75,
and they'd come upon his pickup truck
that was disabled on the side of the road.
It was abandoned. There was nobody around it.
Within a couple of days,
his body was found in citrus county,
and this victim had been shot six times.
When he was found, he was naked on the ground.
Now she would kill much more frequently.
She would be shooting more rounds into the individuals,
- and the time was compressing. - It was very rapid.
From the second murder to the third murder,
it was only a couple of days.
Jarvis: The third victim was a guy by the name of Charles carskaddon.
He was a rodeo worker from the tampa area.
He was driving back to Florida. He never arrived.
Reynolds: In carskaddon's case, he was refusing to pay her,
according to her, and that escalated,
and he ended up getting nine bullets for that.
Tanner: Most killers will tell you there's
a certain amount of pleasure and excitement
in killing a human being.
Instead of being repulsed, they're fueled.
I think that when Aileen killed Richard, rage had come out,
and I think as the other murders progressed,
the rage got more and more and more,
in some cases, brutally, emptying her gun in their chest.
Trenkmann: One victim, six bullets, another victim, nine bullets.
That's not just an ordinary murder.
That's a brutal killing.
Jarvis: Now one of the unique parts of this case
was that she had a specific m.0.
Reynolds: She had a whole act that she had put together,
so she would be out there in her shorts,
and she would hitch a ride, and once in,
she would start with a story about how she needed to go
to wherever this person looked to be going
and that she needed to get money
and wanted to know if you could help me out.
And if they were interested, fine, but if they weren't,
I'd just get out the next exit and try again.
Tanner: She didn't kill everyone that picked her up.
It's typical of serial killers.
There will be several opportunities,
and they'll pass them up for some reason,
and then they'll strike again.
That's a hell of a lot of men I went through
before the next jerk came along, and I used protection.
I think the most surprising aspect of Aileen Wuornos
was how people warmed up to her.
They had no idea what was going on inside her head.
Obviously if they did, they wouldn't have picked her up.
And that was the last ride they ever took.
Damore: We believe that the pattern would be that
she was either posing for prostitution,
or she would tell some of the people she needed a ride,
she had been stranded.
Trenkmann: Aileen Wuornos told stories
about how she had two children in south Florida,
and that she needed a way to get down there
and if perhaps somebody could help her out.
"If you help me out, I can help you out."
She was commandeering the vehicle at gunpoint,
or the man was willingly going into a secluded area
to have sex with her.
This was premeditated.
This was thoughtful, and this is, in her own way,
they speak of organized and disorganized serial killers.
She was organized.
And then there was either a robbery,
or there was sexual activity and a robbery
and a murder that went along with all of it.
She actually drove away
every victim's vehicle from the crime scene.
And she and tyria Moore would use that car for a time
until they saw fit to get rid of it.
After robbing her victims, in some cases,
she would take the possessions to a pawn shop and get cash.
Damore: There were also additional items taken,
and those would be her trophies and her souvenirs.
Why would Aileen Wuornos murder men and Rob them?
Some of it was, I believe,
to feed her desire to have control over these men
and to take everything that they had,
their lives and their property,
and I think that's evident by the fact
that many of the things that she took
were virtually valueless, that she took them as trophies.
That is a Mark of a serial killer.
She was a killer who robbed, not a robber who killed.
And then things got worse.
She had the upbringing that no one would volunteer for.
This was a highly dysfunctional family.
She didn't know that those were not her parents until later on.
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Aileen grew up in Troy, just like I did.
We met when we were, like, 14, 15.
We had a great time together.
She was a great friend.
She was funny as hell.
She loved joking, eating pizza,
playing pool, and stuff like that.
Aileen's upbringing is really a subject of some speculation.
She certainly had the kind of upbringing
that no one would volunteer for.
Trenkmann: Aileen Wuornos was from Troy, Michigan.
She was born to a teenage mother,
a woman who was a Finnish immigrant
who married an American who was convicted
and sent to prison before she even knew him.
Her father was a convicted sex offender.
And he would eventually die in prison from suicide,
and her mother would later abandon her as a child.
And so Aileen was left to be raised by her grandparents.
Trenkmann: Many people think of the grandparents
as sort of a doting, caring figure in their lives,
but in the case of Aileen Wuornos, that was not the case.
Reynolds: This wasn't a loving extended family.
This was a highly dysfunctional, angry family.
She didn't know that those were not her parents until later on,
and of course, it had a traumatic effect on her.
And her grandfather was pretty strict with her.
There are accounts of some pretty violent
- or severe levels of discipline. - Nobody really did want her...
Her mother, her father, her grandparents.
And that may have played a significant role
in her behavioral problems growing up
and well into adulthood.
Damore: A lot of antisocial behaviors...
Stealing, arson, things of that nature, difficulty at school.
Botkins: At 12, she was raped, and she got pregnant.
In those days, that shames the family,
so they put her in an unweds' place down in.
- Detroit until she had the baby. - The baby is born,
and the baby is immediately taken away from her.
She put her son up for adoption,
and to this day, we don't know what happened to him.
And then things got worse.
Botkins: They all turned against her after she had that baby.
It was horrible.
Kids hated her, said she did that deliberate.
She just needed somebody to be a friend to her.
Trenkmann: She got into a series of problems with her grandfather,
to the point where he threw her out of the house.
Botkins: She had nowhere to go.
Aileen had to sleep in the cars outside, which really sucked
because it was really cold, especially when winter come.
Trenkmann: She moved into some nearby woods,
where she was able to learn to survive on her own outside.
One of the ways she did that is through crime.
Botkins: So that's when she become a prostitute
and living in the woods and all that.
She would do her prostitution at night.
Some of the guys would actually get hotels
and let her stay there.
When you look at the childhood of Aileen Wuornos,
I don't think anyone can disagree with this.
She just didn't get a fair shake.
You play the cards that you're dealt,
and the cards that she was dealt,
they were not like the average person growing up.
She just drifted and lived on the streets
until she finally ended up moving to Florida.
Jarvis: At the age of 20, Aileen married a gentleman
by the name of Lewis fell, who was 76 at the time,
but about 9 weeks into the marriage,
they got into an altercation.
And, in fact, he alleged that she beat him up
with his own cane
and had to get a restraining order against her.
He filed for divorce, and that marriage was over.
Trenkmann: There's no question that she had some personality problems.
She had a really tough time dealing with other people,
being in the presence of others in normal circumstances.
She was also known to have a very hot temper.
As she grew into adulthood,
she was getting arrested for brawls in bars.
She could go from a normal conversation
to just a violent outrage at the flip of a switch,
and there was no real telling when it was going to happen.
I think it kind of grew over time
and maybe got a little bit worse.
Damore: Aileen had a criminal history,
which involved crimes from forgery of checks to battery,
armed robbery, and weapons charges,
so she was not a novice to the criminal system.
Taylor: She never really drew a lot of attention from the police
to herself throughout all these years.
I never thought for a second she'd kill somebody,
for crying out loud.
Jarvis: Victim number four, the pivotal case.
He had planned on passing out some bibles along the way.
He had the Bible, and she did that anyways.
How cold can you possibly be?
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Welcome back to "very scary people."
By the summer of 1990,
Aileen Wuornos had gunned down three men in cold blood
but left very few clues on her trail of terror.
She went on her homicidal rampage
before DNA and fingerprint databases
had been fully established,
so Florida investigators had yet to link the cases.
Before they did figure it out,
Wuornos would slaughter four more people.
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Victim number four, which I call the pivotal case...
Peter siems was a man living in Jupiter, Florida,
and he was on his way to drive up to New Jersey
to visit his brother.
He had planned on passing out some bibles along the way,
so he had them in his trunk.
He had stopped somewhere, we believe for gas,
and that was where he ran into Aileen.
[Gunshots]
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He had the Bible, and she did that anyways.
How cold can you possibly be?
That's as cold as you can possibly be.
Trenkmann: I think there were a number of factors
that allowed her to get away with this.
One of the biggest problems investigators faced...
That she was killing people all over the place.
Jarvis: The first three killings were in volusia county,
citrus county and pasco county,
and they all used different labs to do their ballistics testing.
If they had all been sent to the same lab,
they might have caught it a little bit earlier.
The vehicles were also dispersed,
and when she abandoned these vehicles,
she would take off the license plate.
She would remove any bumper stickers or anything
that might identify the car.
She would spray the dashboard and wheel and door handles.
She'd thoroughly clean the car down.
Aileen did a really good job of covering her tracks.
They were things that all slowed down the process.
It just took a long time to link these cases together.
Victim number five was Troy burress.
Pouncey: My dad, he was a really good person.
He loved family. He loved pets.
I mean, he had a really good personality.
He was where he wanted to be in life,
and he got a job at gilchrist sausage.
He traveled different places, made stops for the company.
He was all set to retire.
Usually after his routes, he would go home.
That night, he was supposed to be at my house.
He never made it.
Jarvis: Mr. Burress had been out making deliveries for his company,
and somewhere around Seville, Florida, on his way back in,
in the afternoon, he disappeared.
Pouncey: I was petrified.
Nobody knows where he's at or who he's with.
It just wasn't like him to,
you know, just disappear like that.
Reynolds: Aileen had somehow encountered him
and got a ride from him,
and he gave it to her, not looking for sex at all.
Chung: Do you know why this woman targeted your brother?
I think because he was a really friendly man
because he did work in sales a lot.
He liked people, and he would...
He loved to talk to his... almost anyone.
And didn't you caution him just that day
- or the day before to... - The day before.
...not to pick up hitchhikers?
And I said, "well, you know, you used to pick up hitchhikers.
You can't do that anymore. It's too dangerous."
He said, "oh, I know, but I hate to pass someone up
if they need a ride."
He always said he would always want his girls
to have help if they needed it.
He was that kind of man.
[Gunshot]
I went up to ocala, and we looked on his routes,
you know, the roads that he drove,
and it was 4 days before we found him,
and his body was deteriorating.
His body was found in the ocala national forest.
Man: Right there by the pine tree to your left.
I was devastated, the fact that I couldn't talk to him anymore.
I couldn't see him anymore.
I couldn't call him.
To this day, I have a hard time.
My dad was 50 years old when he was taken.
He was happy, and then his life was taken in a horrible,
mean, evil way.
He had two children and six grandchildren.
He missed them growing up.
This was a case that we would kind of tie things
together with other departments
because as we were investigating
the death of Mr. Burress, we found
that there were at least two other cases
involving a .22-caliber killing.
We had a series of meetings at our headquarters.
And there was a pattern emerging
that individually they hadn't seen.
There were some jaws that dropped and hit the floor.
One of the things about serial killers...
They're kind of, like, in a chrysalis,
like a butterfly living in a little chrysalis,
and once they make the first murder,
they carry something from it to every other murder.
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A monthly bulletin came out from the Florida department
of law enforcement, and in this bulletin,
it had other counties had unsolved homicides,
and it was there that the connection was made.
Other counties had homicides where the crime scenes,
the modus operandi,
the victimology was very similar.
There was a pattern emerging
that individually they hadn't seen.
Damore: It became obvious
that these were not random acts of violence.
Kassewitz: One of the bell-ringers in this whole case
from an investigative point of view
was the weapon used, which was a .22-caliber pistol,
and it raised a couple red flags by itself.
Taylor: In the homicides that I've worked,
it was typically a larger-caliber handgun
like a .357 or a .45 or a 9-millimeter.
The victims were all white, middle-aged, and older males.
They were all traveling on
or near major roadways in central Florida.
Their bodies were found in secluded quasi-rural locations,
and there was a pattern of overkill,
meaning more bullets than necessary to kill the person.
[Gunshots]
After they were killed, their vehicles were taken,
and in each case,
something was missing from the victim's vehicle.
Kassewitz: Several of the investigators start talking.
They make some phone calls to each other,
and then a task force is put together,
and now things are on track
for discovering who did these murders.
Taylor: We had a series of multiple meetings at our headquarters,
and we had a lot of seasoned detectives
that all came together from multiple counties,
and we would share ideas, share information.
We were looking for any connection that we could find.
We didn't know whether it was one
or more people operating together.
All we knew is, there was a pattern of killings going on,
and we couldn't figure out how that was occurring.
It was extremely frustrating,
and I can remember sitting there thinking,
"how come we're not coming up with anything?"
Trenkmann: She was able to get away with this for a long time
because police initially weren't looking
for somebody like Aileen Wuornos.
Investigators in the first two think they're looking for a guy.
We just didn't know.
But there was one unique feature.
Every car that we recovered had the driver's side seat
in the forward-most position,
and what we started thinking was because of that,
maybe we're looking for somebody that's smaller in stature.
Trenkmann: And police started to figure out that there had to be somebody
that had the ability to get these victims
close enough to them where that they could be vulnerable
and be killed and robbed in these remote locations.
Taylor: Some of the victims were pretty large guys.
Who would get in their personal, intimate space,
who would they let their guard down for?
It's easy today when you look back, saying,
"hindsight, 20/20, it should have been common sense."
You know, but it's just that we have that stereotype,
maybe, if you will, that was, you know, a barrier to us.
Another tell in this pattern
would be how the victims were found.
Some of them were nude.
There was perhaps some sexual component to these crimes.
In one of the meetings, attending was dayle hinman,
who is an FBI-trained criminal profiler.
When we laid all the facts of these cases that we knew
at that time on the table for dayle to analyze and review.
She said, "from what I can see here,
you're really looking at, most likely, a female."
There were some jaws that dropped and hit the floor.
It was, it was a "wow" moment.
It really was.
Now this started to take some shape into the fact
that we could be looking for women.
We just didn't know where to look.
We didn't know where to turn.
The biggest break of the case came months earlier,
back in July of 1990.
We just didn't know it yet.
Initially, Peter siems was a missing persons case.
No luck sweeping out here this morning.
Officer: A witness came forward and said that they saw two females
operating a car that wrecked.
Damore: And that's when the whole dam started to break.
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Victim number six was Mr. Humphreys.
Richard Humphreys was a retired
military, highly decorated officer.
He was the police chief in a small town.
He'd served there, retired, and he'd moved to Florida
and took a job with the state of Florida social services.
And he was going out and doing home checks,
and somewhere along the way,
something happened to him on the way back to the office.
He had stopped at a truck stop to get something to drink
at the end of his work day.
We were able to find on his body
that there was a bruise on the upper torso,
and we identified this as a bruise
from the barrel of her gun.
It appeared that once he had purchased that soda,
he got back in his car,
and Aileen got in the passenger side
and put the gun in his ribs and told him to start driving.
That's a predator. That's her abducting him.
Taylor: They get off the interstate.
They ended up at the end of a cul-de-sac,
and that's where Mr. Humphreys
had been shot multiple times and had been left to die.
At the crime scene, you could see his pants pockets
were pulled inside-out, which was clearly suggestive
that the crime of robbery had also taken place.
Some of this personal property was found about 4 weeks later
in south lake county.
Jarvis: The final victim was Walter jeno Antonio.
He never arrived back home.
His body was found in Dixie county.
Reynolds: Walter was one of Aileen's tricks,
and she had gotten him out in the woods,
and he was stripped.
He had taken all his clothes off preparing to have sex,
and he got killed.
And he was just left on his hands and knees naked
in front of an old oak tree.
She set up a theatre, a scenario.
If you enter into that scenario, then you could die.
Taylor: This ended up with seven people dead.
Well, why would she do it?
Pure evil.
By the fall of 1990,
we had these cases that we were reviewing,
and we were pretty confident, based upon a number of issues,
that these cases were, in fact, related.
The big thing was, "who was committing the murders?"
They were needing a break, and they didn't realize
that the break had already happened back in July.
July of 1990, we had this case involving Peter siems.
Initially, Peter siems was a missing persons case,
not a murder case,
and in fact, they never did recover his body.
No luck since we've been out here this morning.
But the investigators realized there's some similarities
between Peter siems' and the rest of the cases.
They have no body, but they have a car
and a car that had been crashed,
and there were witnesses to the crash
who saw two women leaving the scene.
A witness came forward and said that they saw two females
in orange Springs area operating a car that wrecked.
So the witnesses see this car crash,
and two women get out yelling at each other.
One of them looks like she's injured.
Instead of accepting help and asking
for the police or an ambulance,
they rushed away in a suspicious fashion.
The detective had the foresight to go ahead and interview
the witnesses then sit down with our composite artist...
...and two composites were generated.
That was how we ultimately put things together.
A lot of time, just good old-fashioned cop
instinct that you go with.
Damore: Them being in Peter siems' car,
where their little drunken afternoon
out of driving led to the biggest break in the case
of starting to figure out who it was that was behind
the .22-caliber gun.
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Kassewitz: So the group now has a picture related to the siems case
that might be the person who's doing all of this.
Jarvis: As we were investigating the death of Mr. Humphreys,
we found a location that he had stopped at,
and we took a chance.
We had brought the composites from the missing persons
case involving Peter siems.
We showed them to the clerk at the convenience store,
and she said that there were a couple of girls in there
that resembled the composites that we had.
Trenkmann: All of a sudden, they had two suspects,
and they could put that out to the public
and get help and find them.
That was a big turning point.
We made the decision, "we're going to have to go public."
"So let's put it out there,"
and that's when the whole dam started to break.
"The following described suspects may be responsible
for as many as 12 murders in Florida and Georgia."
Went immediately to the press,
and all over the state of Florida and elsewhere.
We had composites on the news
and in the papers of two females.
Jarvis: There was literally a feeding frenzy.
This was a huge deal because there had never been
a female serial killer.
The tall blonde, suspect number one,
is most vocal, a white female between 20 and 40 years of age
between 5-foot-8 and 5-11.
A woman killing middle-aged white men with a gun,
- that gets people excited. - We started to get tips.
She's well-built, a big girl.
But the problem was, they didn't know where she was.
Jarvis: She has straight blonde hair.
Kassewitz: How do you get this person off the street
before they kill again?
[Gunshot]
What happened at this point is, we needed a miracle.
- They had her in sight. - I wasn't born bad.
You guys got it, see, I'm trying to tell you, man,
they lied. They lied so bad to you all.
[Gunshot]
Investigators took a big risk in that fall of 1990.
They believed the two women in the composite drawings
were somehow connected to the serial killings,
but they had no physical evidence,
and they had no idea who these women were.
Ultimately, it would take some old-fashioned police work
and a lover's betrayal to bring this vicious killer down.
The unbelievable story of how Aileen Wuornos was captured,
next time, on part 2 of "monster made."
Thanks for watching "very scary people."
Goodnight.
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