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That rarest of serial killers - a woman - Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos always craved fame. Long before she was hunted and caught by Florida law enforcement, long before she confessed to killing seven men, she told friends that she wanted to do something "no woman has ever done before" and to have a book about her life. After a decade on Florida's Death Row, as that life was scheduled to end by lethal injection on October 9th, here comes Sue Russell's book, Lethal Intent.

Packed with exclusive material that sheds a different light on this cold-blooded serial killer, Lethal Intent contains new insights and intimate memories from her family, friends and childhood peers. (Peers who lost their virginities to Aileen, who began prostituting herself at a horribly early age.)

Lethal Intent reveals Aileen's devastating double abandonment by her mother before she was age two, the crimes of her father, and the myriad events that helped set her path of destruction. It even contests the widespread superficial judgment of Wuornos as a "man-hating lesbian" via new insights from men with whom she shared sexual and romantic relationships. Lethal Intent also explores the dynamics of her fateful relationship with Tyria Moore, the lesbian lover who knew Aileen was killing yet stayed by her side, and how those dynamics moved Aileen closer to a life of murder. And much, much more….
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Told in her own words, the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster.

There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers—Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern. After escaping an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, she became a child prostitute, progressing into a disastrous adulthood of prostitution and damaging affairs with both men and women. Her eventual metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences—a stream of dead men. This is her story, as told to Christopher Berry-Dee, editor of THE NEW CRIMINOLOGIST and director of Britain’s Criminology Research Center..
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In 1989, Aileen Wuornos cruised Florida's I-95 for strangers and free rides. By 1990, seven of the men who had crossed her path had met their fate at the end of her .22 caliber pistol. Convicted in six of the murders, she claimed self-defense--then in turn blamed her ex-husband, her family, her lesbian lover, her defense team, the media, the Gulf War, and bum luck for the cold-blooded slayings.

Written by the reporter who broke the story, this the startling account of Wuornos's brutal killing spree, which led to one of the most highly publicized trials, convictions, and executions in all of American crime.
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For Criminal Justice courses in Homicide Studies, Women & Crime, Criminal Behavior, Criminal Offender, Victimology (Violence & Victims), and Psychology & Crime. This text explains in clear, accessible, and scholarly prose who the female homicide offender is, examining the criminological literature on female criminality (including murder). It also investigates the research on attachment disorder and psychopathy, using the case study of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's most controversial serial murderers. Detailed, systematic, and comprehensive, the text details how such behaviors emerge in childhood, and what can be done to predict and prevent them. It offers a fresh and provocative assessment that presents several treatment, administration, and policy recommendations regarding the mental health and court justice systems..
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Title: Aileen Wuornos superstar.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
Author: Thomas Doherty
Publication:Cineaste (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2004
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 29 Issue: 3 Page: 3(3)

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Title: Life imitates art.(Editorials)(Movie incident echoes Eugene police scandal)(Editorial)
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: February 20, 2004
Publisher: The Register Guard
Page: A12

Article Type: Editorial

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