Monster: Aileen Wuornos

According to The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, only around 16% of all serial killers are female. In fact, they are so rare that even the man credited with coining the term "serial killer," FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler, did not discuss female killers at all in his research. As he said in his 1992 book Whoever Fights Monsters, there has been only one female that "has been arrested and accused as a serial killer — Aileen Wuornos."Aileen was not just an exception to the rule of serial killers being mostly white males in their twenties or thirties, but she also did not fit the typical characteristics of female serial killers. Aileen killed outdoors instead of at home, used a gun instead of poison, and killed strangers instead of friends or family. Still, in a letter to her friend Dawn, Aileen said he never wanted to kill in the first place. So what drove her to take the lives of seven men and eventually becoming a monster as we know her today?(FYI- this episode goes a little longer than normal... whoops)Subscribe and share 10 Minute Murder with your true crime loving friends. Connect on social media to know when new episodes are released and to see visuals that go along with the episodes.https://linktr.ee/10minutemurderFacebook: https://facebook.com/10MMpodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/10minutemurder/  Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRBEFtUg/Youtube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCkJLUCEZlkn9In3AA46RVxwTwitter: https://twitter.com/10minutemurder  Submit future episode story ideas: [email protected] Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/10-minute-murder-bingeable-true-crime-stories--4603604/support.