Aileen Wuornos: The Most Cunning Female Serial Killer | World's Most Evil Killers | Real Crime

Summary

Aileen Wuornos, one of the most notorious female serial killers in history, targeted middle-aged, wealthy men, murdering them with a calculated coldness that shocked the world. Described as utterly remorseless, Wuornos embarked on a murderous spree between November 1989 and November 1990 in Florida, killing seven men. Her modus operandi was unique for a female killer, using a nine-shot revolver and embodying the brutality typically associated with male serial killers. Her tragic backstory, marked by abuse and a tumultuous upbringing, fostered a deep-seated hatred of men that drove her to commit these heinous acts. Captured in January 1991, Wuornos confessed to the murders, claiming they were acts of self-defense against attempted rape.

Highlights

• Aileen Wuornos's notorious legacy as a female serial killer who killed like a man. 🎯
• Her method of targeting and murdering her victims broke stereotypical norms of female serial killers. 🔫
• The dark influence of her abusive childhood, contributing to her lethal hatred towards men. 😞
• The pivotal role of pawn shop evidence and a public call for help in capturing Wuornos. 🔍
• Her ultimate demise through a trial that captivated the nation, leading to her execution. ⚖️

Key Takeaways

• Aileen Wuornos was one of the few female serial killers, targeting wealthy middle-aged men. 🎯
• She killed seven men over a span of a year, using a firearm, unusual for female killers. 🔫
• Wuornos's tragic upbringing, marked by abuse, played a significant role in her path to becoming a killer. 😞
• She was caught in 1991, after a nationwide search, thanks to a composite sketch and pawn shop records. 🔍
• Despite her defense claims of self-defense, she was sentenced to death and executed in 2002. ⚖️

Overview

Aileen Wuornos shook the foundations of crime history by becoming one of the most notorious female serial killers. While most female killers tend to use less aggressive means like poisoning, Wuornos defied these norms by shooting her victims at point-blank range. Her choice was deliberate, echoing the violence she felt from her turbulent upbringing. This brutal method, paired with her cold demeanor, created a chilling narrative that fascinated and terrified the public.

The community's fear escalated as Wuornos's killing spree in Florida became well-known, highlighting the vulnerability of men who picked up her hitchhiking on the highways. Law enforcement faced a daunting task as they pieced together the connections between the murders. It took the persistence of detectives and a well-timed composite sketch release to zero in on Wuornos, whose erratic spree and pawn shop activity finally led to her dramatic arrest in January 1991.

Despite her confessions, Wuornos maintained a narrative of self-defense, claiming her victims attempted to assault her sexually. Her trial was unprecedented, shedding light on her fractured psyche and the complexity of her motivations. Ultimately, with multiple death sentences, Wuornos was executed in 2002. Her story endures, continuing to spark debates on gender, violence, and justice.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:30: The Beginning of Aileen Wuornos's Killing Spree The chapter titled 'The Beginning of Aileen Wuornos's Killing Spree' delves into the infamous serial killer's first known murder. On November 30, 1989, in Central Florida, Aileen Wuornos, posing as a prostitute, was picked up by a 51-year-old man. Unbeknownst to him, he would become her first victim. Wuornos shot him four times with a revolver, exhibiting a chilling lack of remorse and taking pleasure in the act of murder. This marked the start of her notorious killing spree.
• 04:00 - 06:30: Wuornos's Early Life and Motivations The chapter delves into the early life and motivations of Eileen Wuornos, a notorious female serial killer. Wuornos specifically targeted middle-aged, affluent men who owned expensive cars. Her killing spree left no room for sympathy, as she was perceived as a ruthless and mean individual. The violent and heinous manner in which she committed her crimes set her apart in history, especially as a woman. Her confession, which came with the assistance of her girlfriend, was eventually recorded, highlighting the depth of her criminal activities.
• 11:30 - 13:00: The First Murder In the chapter titled "The First Murder," it begins with a question about the method and timing of a crime spree carried out by a female serial killer. This killer, identified as Eileen Wuornos, was known for her ruthlessness over a short span of one year, wherein she shot, robbed, and murdered seven men. The chapter delves into the heinous nature of her crimes, establishing Wuornos as one of the world's most notorious killers.
• 15:00 - 17:00: The Pattern of Killings Continues The chapter titled 'The Pattern of Killings Continues' discusses the fear that gripped Daytona Beach, Florida, as a result of the murderous spree undertaken by sex worker Eileen Wuornos. Between November 1989 and November 1990, Wuornos killed multiple people, leaving the local community in a state of terror.
• 25:00 - 28:30: Efforts to Capture Wuornos The chapter titled 'Efforts to Capture Wuornos' discusses the criminal acts of Wuornos, who shot and killed seven men between 1989 and 1990. Wuornos targeted men seeking the services of a sex worker, killing them, robbing them, and disposing of their bodies. Detective David Taylor was part of the police task force crucial in bringing Wuornos to justice. The series of murders greatly shocked the community.
• 32:00 - 38:00: Wuornos's Capture and Confession This chapter provides an overview of the capture and confession of Wuornos. It starts by highlighting the unusual nature of Wuornos's crimes, noting that most serial killers are male and women typically use indirect methods like poisoning. Contrary to this norm, Wuornos was direct and aggressive, selecting her victims spontaneously as they drove past her on the highway. Her case stands out due to the rarity of female serial killers and her particularly brutal methods.
• 45:30 - 50:00: Wuornos's Trial and Death Sentence In this chapter, the focus is on Aileen Wuornos's trial and subsequent death sentence. Aileen Wuornos, whose killing methods were described as rare, targeted men who stopped to help her when she was on the side of the road prostituting. An undercover police officer, Mike Joyner, played a crucial role in her arrest. Wuornos's method involved luring the men by prostituting, then taking them to a secluded spot where she would kill them and rob them of their money or possessions.
• 53:00 - 60:00: The Execution and Legacy of Aileen Wuornos The chapter titled 'The Execution and Legacy of Aileen Wuornos' discusses the impact that Aileen Wuornos's killing spree had on Florida. Detective Brian Jarvis, a member of the task force assigned to the case, describes the heightened state of fear among the community. The way the bodies were found and the subsequent realization of a serial killer on the loose contributed to widespread panic. The chapter highlights how such events have a profound effect on any community, particularly in Florida where the interstate highways are commonly used by everyone.

Aileen Wuornos: The Most Cunning Female Serial Killer | World's Most Evil Killers | Real Crime Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 november the 30th 1989 central florida when a 51 year old male picked up a prostitute from the side of the road he had no idea that she would turn out to be a cold-blooded killer she was just utterly remorseless this was somebody who enjoyed watching men die she shot him four times with a nine shot revolver
• 00:30 - 01:00 in her mass murder spree hardened killer eileen wuornos targeted middle-aged wealthy men with expensive cars she killed still there was no sympathy no she was just a ruthless mean [ __ ] very few women have ever killed in such a violent vile manner in history eventually she was recorded confessing with the help of her girlfriend
• 01:00 - 01:30 how did you do this why didn't you do this in just one year this female serial killer callously shot robbed and murdered seven men making eileen wuornos one of the world's most evil killers [Music]
• 01:30 - 02:00 [Music] [Music] daytona beach florida it was here that sex worker eileen warnos went on a murderous rampage between november 1989 and november 1990 her actions left locals fearing for their lives
• 02:00 - 02:30 shot and killed at point-blank range seven men between 1989 and 1990. here is somebody who is deliberately targeting men who are looking to engage in the services of a sex worker and she is killing them and robbing them and disposing of their bodies detective david taylor was on the police task force that was instrumental in bringing wuornos to justice it shocked the community that once we
• 02:30 - 03:00 identified alien warnos as the killer of these men that a female was that vicious in killing these people about nine in ten serial killers on men and one in ten are women female serial killers tend to use quite remote methods like poisoning but moernos literally went and picked victims as they drove past her on the highway it's very rare to have a female serial killer but it's
• 03:00 - 03:30 even rarer to have one that kills in the way that wellness did she essentially killed like a man mike joyner was an undercover police officer on the wernhers case and was key to her arrest she would be on the side of the road and prostituting she would pick up men as they stopped to help her and then she would take them somewhere and kill them and take their money or take whatever
• 03:30 - 04:00 value they had detective brian jarvis was also on the walnut task force and he recalls the impact her killing spree had on florida at this particular time because of the way the bodies were found the way things turned up there there's a lot of panicle over this to have a serial killer on the loose is something that is going to have an impact on any community everybody in florida uses the highways everybody
• 04:00 - 04:30 feels that they have that connection to this case this killer story begins in 1956. eileen wuornos was born on the 29th of february in rochester michigan her mother was just 16 years old when she gave birth and was unable to raise her by march 1960 when alice just four she's formally adopted
• 04:30 - 05:00 by her mother's parents her grandparents she had a really brutal upbringing with them so she was regularly beaten by her grandfather there were allegations of incest within the family her grandfather had a home-built sauna in his house and if he wanted to punish her for doing something he didn't like he'd lock her in the sauna and crank up the heat and just let her stay in there eileen's abusive childhood sent her on a
• 05:00 - 05:30 downward spiral and fueled her hatred of men this was somebody who was constantly in fear one of his grandfather allegedly repeatedly said to her that she was worthless that she should never have been born that she was a mistake so she's learning that she can't trust anyone that she can't depend upon anybody and this is very very dangerous eileen learned early to use any means available to survive before she got to her teen years
• 05:30 - 06:00 she was known as a cigarette bandit she would trade sexual favors for packs of cigarettes it's said that from around age 11 she's using her body as something to trade as a tool and this kind of disconnection from her emotions is something that is going to have a significant impact on the rest of her life her behavior left her pregnant aged 14. now on the orders of her grandfather that baby is adopted it's taken away
• 06:00 - 06:30 from her and this is just reinforcing those ideas that she already has that those who are supposed to love me hurt me that i am worthless that i'm not deserving of love shortly after she was forced to give up her child eileen was hit by another tragedy her grandmother dies of liver failure having been quite a heavy drinker for many years her grandfather actually blames her for her grandmother's death her grandfather was furious and threw
• 06:30 - 07:00 wunos out of the house aged just 15 warnos was left homeless alone her only option was to live in the woods at the end of their street she lives a very feral existence sleeping in an old car and she's still a child at this point and and this is incredibly damaging there is absolutely nobody there for her she is literally just taking each day as it comes she's making sure that she has enough to eat
• 07:00 - 07:30 um she is is basically using her body as she's used it before she's learning that life is full of rejection it's full of pain it's full of fear and that she really needs to hurt others before they get the chance to hurt her one person she was still close to was her brother keith just 11 months older than eileen the rumor was that their relationship was an unnatural one there were allegations of incest um school friends of keith said that they'd witnessed these things going on so she
• 07:30 - 08:00 felt a connection but it was a very pathological and a very toxic one unable to cope living outside during the cold winter months in michigan age 16 eileen hitchhiked over a thousand miles west to the warmer climes of colorado two years later she was arrested for her first offense driving under the influence and disorderly conduct which included the dangerous discharge of a 22
• 08:00 - 08:30 caliber weapon eventually in 1976 age 20 she hitchhiked 2 000 miles southeast to sunny florida [Music] it is no accident that very shortly after she gets to florida she falls in love with or at least decides to marry a 69 year old man called louis gratz fell
• 08:30 - 09:00 he was president of the yacht club but it was a doomed marriage she's been incredibly violent towards him eileen was actually beating him up she was hitting him with his own walking cane lewis put a restraining order on warnos and filed for annulment just weeks after they were married while the proceedings were going through eileen received some devastating family news in 1976 her brother keith dies of throat cancer and
• 09:00 - 09:30 she's absolutely beside herself and even though their relationship was an incredibly abnormal and dysfunctional one she felt that she had an ally in him but now she was completely on her own eileen received ten thousand dollars when her brother died she spends it almost within weeks guns cars motel rooms
• 09:30 - 10:00 and then she decides she has to sustain this lifestyle and turns to armed robbery to do it in 1981 she was arrested for stealing 35 and two packets of cigarettes from a convenience store oner spent over a year in jail but that didn't deter her over the next decade her criminal activity escalated she really did demonstrate versatility she was being arrested for driving under the influence for assault and battery
• 10:00 - 10:30 for robbery one man claimed when she was uh prostitute again that she whipped a gun out and put it to his head and demanded two hundred dollars she was to put it politely out of control in 1986 wuornos met a woman who changed her life when she met tyree what aileen thought this is my soul mate this is the person i want to spend the rest of my life with and i will do anything for this girl the owner of the last resort bar in
• 10:30 - 11:00 daytona beach al bulling remembers one us well who was a regular customer she used to come in here she'd shoot pool here with her girlfriend ty she was uh she was a little mouthy with eileen if she needed a beer she'd sit on a pool table and kind of demand her get her another beer or whatever having blown her inheritance wunos took it upon herself to raise the money the two needed to live aileen would go out and prostitute to make money so that she could buy things for tyria she would want to take care of
• 11:00 - 11:30 her and make sure she was happy and and never want to leave her and i think that was what it boiled down to daytona beach florida november the 30th 1989 33 year eileen warnos was now living with lover tyria moore and was indulging in a host of petty crimes to maintain their extravagant lifestyle the frequency of the crimes and the force warnos used to enact them was increasing it all came to a head the night she was
• 11:30 - 12:00 picked up by 51 year old richard mallory richard mallory owned an electrical repair shop and he'd been divorced for many years and he didn't make any secret of the fact that he did enjoy engaging in the services of sex workers he picked her up hitchhiking they were drinking they were hanging out as it were and one thing led to another uh some type of violent encounter where she ended up killing him she shot him four times with a nine shot revolver she took
• 12:00 - 12:30 a couple of pieces of property that belonged to him a camera and a radar detector and she pawned them she made some money off of the deal when richard mallory's body was found two weeks after he was killed there was no evidence to clarify what sparked her age his body was found it was it was very decomposed basically all we have to work with is what we have found that the crime scene the physical evidence and the trace evidence etc
• 12:30 - 13:00 we do know that he was shot multiple times and his victim was found in a secluded area right outside the city of daytona what triggered wuornos to kill for the first time remains a mystery but what is certain is that the murder of richard mallory was the beginning of a dark and deadly chapter for her entire life wuernos has been victimized by men she's been abused by them but now she's turned the table she's the one that's in control and
• 13:00 - 13:30 she's very much enjoying it because she's learned from a very early age that violence equals power and she really is on quite a high at this point taking one life once wasn't enough six months later warner struck again there's usually what they call a brief cooling off period and this absolutely applied here a large part of it was due to her paranoia and her fear of getting caught and when she came back from that brief cooling off period
• 13:30 - 14:00 now she was the predator she was looking for who she was going to kill next she's somebody who's being proactive she's seeking out victims she's getting access to them she has an opportunity to harm them and she takes that opportunity these men they were all white males they were all traveling the roads alone they were middle aged 40 to 65.
• 14:00 - 14:30 on may the 19th 1990 she was picked up on the i-75 highway by a 43-year-old machine operator david spears when they pulled over and he began to undress she slipped out of the passenger side door walked around to the driver's side aimed and fired he'd been shot six times
• 14:30 - 15:00 one shot was not enough for wunos she was making a point with her killings she was saying this is for all the men who have abused me over the years this was somebody who enjoyed watching men die because for the first time in her life she was powerful she was the one in control she was the one calling the shots david was last seen by his son leaving work at midday to meet his ex-wife when
• 15:00 - 15:30 he didn't show up his family reported him missing our patrol division had come upon a vehicle that was abandoned on i-75 it was in the southbound lane on the shoulder it had a flat tire and when they ran the vin number on the vehicle it came back to david spears who had been reported a missing person we searched the area we secured the vehicle to process it and we found that she had taken some stuff out of the vehicle and tossed it off the side of the road into the the weeds the items included the
• 15:30 - 16:00 license plate or the tag from the car david spears body was found less than two weeks later dumped in citrus county a few miles from the i-75 highway [Music] may the 31st one us went on the prowl again in pasco county florida 40-year-old charles caskarden a part-time rodeo rider picked up juanos about 30 minutes north of tampa he was traveling back from st louis he had been
• 16:00 - 16:30 up there visiting his mother and he drove back from st louis to the tampa area where he was living with his fiancee and just before he got to tampa he encountered aileen eileen had developed a deadly routine once a man picked her up his fate was sealed they would drive away and she'd be undressing and they'd find a remote location she'd encourage the victim to also remove his clothes as charles undressed warner slipped out
• 16:30 - 17:00 of the car and came round to the driver's side door then at point blank grange she fired she didn't just kill she shot charles cascada nine times once she was sure he was dead she took his car and his possessions
• 17:00 - 17:30 she didn't do that with richard mallory she just took items she could use now she's starting to gather those those souvenirs and those trophies and and it's becoming a passion of hers to do this stuff she then dumped charles's body a few miles from the highway in pasco county she left these victims basically in the middle of nowhere and to do that to another human being
• 17:30 - 18:00 there's zero compassion she's pure evil just a week after her last killing the deadly predator was on the hunt again on june the seventh warner's chose to work her favorite highway the i-75 in central florida after three murders she'd honed her technique bonuses victims were all men who drove expensive cars so they were the symbol of success
• 18:00 - 18:30 that night christian missionary peter sims age 65 left his home in jupiter florida and was driving north on the i-75 peter sims was on a road trip and he never made it to his destination his intent was to drive up to new jersey and from there he had planned on going over to arkansas he had a number of bibles in the car with him he was going to pass them out along the way instead for some unknown reason peter sims picked up eileen wuernus
• 18:30 - 19:00 he could not have thought of as a more upright character he also took part in an outreach christian ministry but i think that that infuriated wuornos because she thought you hypocrite i'm going to kill you and she duly did the following month the car was found in the ocala national forest 50 miles west of daytona beach the evidence discovered would point to wuornos as the terrifying
• 19:00 - 19:30 serial killer targeting middle-aged men across the sunshine state daytona beach florida july 1990 eileen wuornos was living in a local motel with her girlfriend tyrea moore in under seven months the serial killer had callously shot murdered and robbed four men in what was by now a sadistic pattern when each of the middle-aged men pulled
• 19:30 - 20:00 over and picked her up the 34 year old sex worker attacked she was just utterly remorseless she didn't just shoot them once she'd shoot them three times four times five times they had all been shot with a small caliber weapon namely a 22 and another trait that these victims shared was that they had all been robbed with their personal effects their pants pockets pulled inside out their personal id was missing
• 20:00 - 20:30 and their vehicles was missing as well on july the 4th 1990 the car belonging to 65 year old peter sims was found abandoned in the ocala national forest in orange springs an hour's drive from daytona beach now this is interesting because his body has never been discovered the only way we know that he's dead is that his car was taken by moore and
• 20:30 - 21:00 wunos and driven around aileen and tyria had decided that they wanted to go see the fireworks in daytona beach as they were driving they noticed a sign that indicated there was an indian reservation up in the ocala forest they turned around and tyria was going just a little bit too fast she went off the road the car turned on its passenger side and slid the engine stalled out the carburetor flooded they couldn't get it started the witness reported the suspicious encounter to marion county police
• 21:00 - 21:30 department in florida who went to investigate now the one thing that was important to note here was that was the first time somebody actually saw these girls we had received a telephone call through our that a 911 had crashed in the community of orange springs florida and walking away from that vehicle were two women when they got to the scene the investigators searched the car and made note of its distinct condition
• 21:30 - 22:00 the license plate had been removed the driver's side seat was in the forward most position and we would find that certain things were missing from his vehicle in this case it was his receipt book in cash so at this point we have another missing person we have no idea what happened to him using the vin number on the vehicle the car was soon identified as belonging to missing person peter sims
• 22:00 - 22:30 we searched the areas extensively i don't know if it was for days or weeks but it was a long time that we spent up there looking for peter sims body looking for any type of evidence the police found a series of pawn shop tickets in the car when they tracked down the store they made a major breakthrough in the case one point ticket we found was for a box of tools and that's what was one of the things that was stolen from david spears the other pawn ticket we found
• 22:30 - 23:00 was for a 35 millimeter camera and a radar detector that's what was stolen from richard mallory they submitted the car to forensic examination and made an important discovery on the driver's side door handle juanos leaves a palm print in seems his car which will eventually become extremely significant buenos wood porn many of the items that she stole from her victims in order to get some fast money and her fingerprints
• 23:00 - 23:30 would still be on these items now because eileen had such a significant criminal record her fingerprints were on file and it was only going to be a matter of time before they were matched up and she was connected to these murders but before the police could piece the puzzle together warner struck again it became very frustrating and i can remember even at times thinking are we going to be able to solve this are we going to be able to come up with something and every time we got another body
• 23:30 - 24:00 it mounted it you know it got worse on july the 30th 1990 warner selected her fifth victim a 50 year old salesman called troy bullis troy burris he had gone out to do a delivery run and when he got to dayton he headed north up into ormond beach made a few stops up there turned around when he was returning to the plant he disappeared on the way back to daytona he picked up eileen
• 24:00 - 24:30 like previous victims troy pulled up at a secluded spot minutes later warner shot him twice at point-blank range fifty-year-old troy's body was found five days later one of our deputies came upon his truck and had been abandoned at the intersection of state route 40 and 19 very isolated area
• 24:30 - 25:00 a month later she took her sixth life on september the 12th 1990 56 year old retired police chief charles dick humphreys was coming off the i-75 when he picked up eileen wuenos they drove to a deserted location a few miles off the highway in southwestern marion county and pulled over david taylor was the homicide detective called to the scene the evidence is consistent with mr
• 25:00 - 25:30 humphries getting out of the vehicle from the driver's side we're looking at alien war notes getting out from the passenger side and it was at that point that shots rang out so mr humphreys is shot several times he staggers over to this location and that's where mr humphries collapses but what was so important to us was the fact that he was shot one time at a close non-contact range meaning that the gun was held only just a few inches away from his chest
• 25:30 - 26:00 when that round was fired werner shot charles humphries multiple times she's using much more violence than she needs to get the job done it shows to me that she's enjoying this overkill it's not enough to kill him she has to destroy this individual and this is somebody whose behavior is escalating by the autumn of that year investigators were still unable to identify the killer
• 26:00 - 26:30 and stop the murders by the time mr humphries was killed we had thought about there being a connection so we had contacted every agency in central florida whether it was on a local state or federal level because we didn't know anything we were almost in the dark on this and it was very frustrating officers revisited the evidence from the previous six murder cases searching for
• 26:30 - 27:00 clues and it wasn't more than just a couple weeks later when sergeant brian jarvis was actually going through other cases in florida that had very similar mo's such as an older white male shot multiple times vehicle missing and shot with a small caliber weapon and it was brian that began to connect a couple dots
• 27:00 - 27:30 by winter of 1990 a task force was formed made up of detectives from several of florida's counties we actually all met at the marion county sheriff's office that's when this picture began to evolve there's a possibility these cases could be related while the police continued their investigation wunos was free to kill again the most important thing on our minds at that point is we got to stop the killing
• 27:30 - 28:00 we have to do something to stop the killing and then we started with the task force and we had another body it was it was devastating she kills walter gino antonio a man of 62 who was found in a logging road he'd been shot four times in the back and the head and his car had been stolen antonio's abandoned car was found five days later just south of daytona beach in brevard
• 28:00 - 28:30 county walter gino antonio was a reserve deputy sheriff with the brevard county sheriff's office and some of the things that were taken from him personal effects were like a set of handcuffs and a flashlight but the task force another murder was a mighty blow it's like why couldn't we do more you know how could we let this happen it's kind of a personal blame and uh what can we do
• 28:30 - 29:00 the task force refocused on the case of missing man peter sims hoping to find clues that would lead them to the killer we were perplexed with that case because we had not located his body but he was a middle-aged white male the biggest piece of evidence in that case was we had eyewitnesses that seen these two females leaving the scene of that crash after interviewing the witnesses the police were able to draw a composite
• 29:00 - 29:30 sketch of the two women and that changed everything i think the eureka moment came the first time we went public within the first hour of releasing these composites we had a call that came in it was item number five our fifth lead that named tyria and aylin and in very short sequence we had three other leads come in that also named the same girls so now we knew there was something to that those leads eventually took us to some
• 29:30 - 30:00 biker bars now we have undercover investigators that are now going from bar to bar looking for people that look familiar with the people in the composite sketches one of the undercover officers sent to find the suspected serial killer was mike joyner i was the lieutenant over a special investigation under the siu unit they called me in to a meeting and said that they
• 30:00 - 30:30 had found out that she was staying in daytona or close to daytona and wanted me to go over there and see if i could find her in some of those biker bars over there and maybe you know get close to her daytona beach florida january 1991. after callously shooting and murdering seven men the net was finally closing in
• 30:30 - 31:00 on a cruel serial killer eileen wuornos she is a woman who took pleasure in not only killing but also robbing her victims buenos is targeting adult men and she's a sex worker it's normally the sex workers who are vulnerable victims of their clients so she looks very different she kills like a man she is right in front of them watching them die and really quite enjoying it
• 31:00 - 31:30 year thirty-four-year-old juanos did not know it yet but she was about to meet her destiny in daytona beach after a composite sketch was released to the public dozens of leads came in and eileen warnos was identified as the prime suspect when we reviewed the leads it showed us that they had ties to the locations that we were looking at indicated that they've gone inland which would have been marion county and then
• 31:30 - 32:00 to the east coast which was daytona beach so a number of the undercover officers from all over the state that we were working with went over to daytona beach in an attempt to locate her within a couple of days she was found by undercover police officer mike joyner i walked in the bar down there and i saw she was shooting pool and i recognized her and she had a bad scar on her forehead
• 32:00 - 32:30 getting my heart good at racing and beaten no an uncover offer worse than me he can be himself if he don't control his emotions so i just ordered another beer and kept on working but i knew i had her and i knew i wasn't gonna let it out of my sight mike spent three days following one us
• 32:30 - 33:00 around the biker bars in the area in his bid to get close to her even slept at her favorite hangout the last resort and they had school buses seats all on the back porch and that's where i slept was on the school bus and then they opened the bar up at seven o'clock we went back inside and went drinking again shooting pool i mean that's all you've done you shot pool and drank beer
• 33:00 - 33:30 and she had no money and i had all the money so who she was going to stay the closest to which got nowhere from then on i had and i started buying our beer and playing pool and get kind of hung together with the task force secretly stationed outside on january the 9th 1991 mike joyner made his move we were in the bar we were dancing and uh i had a lot of money and that's
• 33:30 - 34:00 what she was interested in and she wanted to know if i wanted to go out one night and party and i told her i said yeah i'd love to go out but i said you stink you ain't had a bath and i don't know when and i said i think and i said i ain't doing that i'll go get a motel room and we'll clean up but i
• 34:00 - 34:30 going out with no stinking ass woman mike told onenos to wait for him at the bar while he went to get his room key instead he met with a task force outside and i meet with my outside people and tell them you know we make a plan because we knew what she had in mind exact words i told them was piss on the fire and calling the dogs to get some trouble with guess it's her
• 34:30 - 35:00 and i'm not going off with her because i'm not going to be the next victim mike returned to the bar with a motel key and showed it to wernos he then waited for her to make the next move could i get worried about it no she wasn't going to kill me in the bar i wasn't you know i really wasn't worried about it not at that point i just went and got another beer said just whenever you get ready i'm ready to go let's go
• 35:00 - 35:30 a little while later one arse and the undercover cop walked out of the bar the owner of the last resort al bulling was an eyewitness to what happened next they were just sitting at the bar drinking you know they didn't want to arrest her in the bar or anything because they didn't know what she had or didn't want nobody else getting hurt so they waited for her to walk out the door as soon as they hit the door that's when they arrested her werner's was bundled into a car and
• 35:30 - 36:00 taken away the task force had successfully executed the arrest safely i wasn't worried about my safety because i had the best backup in the world it was a relief i think that's the best way to describe it as a relief the next day investigators managed to track down wuernos's partner tyria moore in scranton pennsylvania and they said to her let's make her a deal if you can provide evidence if you
• 36:00 - 36:30 can help us convict eileen wernos then we will give you immunity from prosecution so i think this this was a very very tempting offer tyrea agreed to call eileen and let the police record their conversations and they're coming after me i know they are
• 36:30 - 37:00 [Applause] okay no don't do it now get it over with right this very moment yeah it's
• 37:00 - 37:30 over with all right the same month she was arrested eileen juanos fully confessed to the seven murders i wanted to be straight up with one thing right there now sure the reason i'm contested
• 37:30 - 38:00 [Music] despite the seriousness of her crimes juanos refused an attorney but in what was the cornerstone of her defense she claimed that in each case the men had tried to rape herself
• 38:00 - 38:30 [Music] they go is trying to look out for herself she's still trying to perform this role as the victim because i think she's more than familiar with the fact that many sex workers are regularly raped and assaulted by their clients and i think
• 38:30 - 39:00 she's trying to garner a bit of sympathy for herself in in doing this i don't know it i know that i don't want my girlfriend involved because this is why i'm doing this they've been talking to her trial for first-degree murder started a year later on january the 13th 1992 at the volusia county courthouse near daytona
• 39:00 - 39:30 it was an extraordinary defense after all she could simply have reported them to the police but she didn't do that she took the law into her own hands and indeed executed them herself is a simmering pot of resentment and it's not enough that she's killed her victims but she wants to make them suffer after they've died she wants to tarnish their reputations so she says
• 39:30 - 40:00 that her victims picked her up they targeted her they were the predators not her in an unusual twist wuernos was only tried for her first murder that of 51 year old richard mallory florida state attorney john tanner was the lead prosecutor in florida if you have a series of crimes that are related in certain factors then you may be able to bring in
• 40:00 - 40:30 evidence of those other crimes in this case it was murder call the williams rule john tanner was able to draw a link between the seven murders each of these killings looked almost identical showing i think basically that this appeared to be the print of the same killer and it certainly challenged the theory that she was simply defending herself against rape when you're saying that everyone that picked me up tried to rape me and credibility is becomes real issues
• 40:30 - 41:00 on january the 27th 1992 eileen warnos was found guilty of the murder of richard mallory and sentenced to death then she pulled a major surprise one of the odd twists of this whole thing after being sentenced for richard mallory's death she elected to plead guilty for five other counts of first-degree murder and she accepted the death penalty without going to trial she really just
• 41:00 - 41:30 wanted to get it over with she didn't want to go to trial again she didn't want to face tyrea by november 1992 wernos had been given a total of six death sentences she was never charged with the murder of peter sims as his body was never found after 10 years of appeals and litigation she finally met her fate very close to the end of her life she said
• 41:30 - 42:00 i have hate crawling through my system i'm competent sane and trying to tell the truth i'm one who seriously hates human life and i would kill again eileen warnos was executed by lethal injection on october the 9th 2002. her reactions were a typical eileen she was verbal she was discussing something about the
• 42:00 - 42:30 mother ships ready to blast off that she would be back again one day and here we go i've told a lot of people that when we stopped talking about bonnie and clyde that'll probably be the same day we quit talking about aileen warno's some people believe that she was an abuse victim that she was very childlike vulnerable other people feel that she was a sadistic killer she enjoyed ending men's life in reality it was probably a
• 42:30 - 43:00 bit of both and that's why we continue to be fascinated by her in just one year she callously killed seven men in cold blood and then robbed them she had a record unmatched by any other female killer the violent nature of her multiple murders makes eileen wuornos one of the world's most evil killers