Aileen Wuornos Monster: My True Story

What could make someone have sex, rob, and kill seven innocent men in only a year? Aileen Wuornos was one of America’s first known women serial killers. Putting a shocking twist on the gentle, nurturing, and compassionate perspective that we typically place on women proving that equality between men and women even exist in regards to committing heinous crimes. Most films, documentaries, and novels based on true crime tend to be written from the perspective of others but the novel Monster: My True story enables readers to hear from both criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee and Aileen herself. Analyzing her childhood and life of crime allows readers to examine how childhood development has a correlational relationship with future social and psychological …show more content…
The potential risk was Aileen getting caught but after she successfully killed her first victim without a trace she started to believe that the reward of taking control of men through sex, robbing them for her own financial gain and then killing them she ultimately had power and it was worth it. Aileen went on to kill seven men in total over a one year timeframe and it took law enforcement officers two years to catch her. Aileen Wuornos even believed that officers purposefully let her continue to kill to make a story line and eventually make a profit off of her story. Finally on January 9, 1991 officers arrested Wuornos at a bar named “The Last Resort”. However, prosecutors were not satisfied because they knew that there was an accomplice on the loose Tyria Moore. Eventually, they apprehended Moore and decided not to charge Tyria in exchange for her help and testimony against her ex-girlfriend Aileen Wuornos. The book portrayed Aileen as being able to sympathize and care for someone other than herself when she was willing to take total blame for the crimes committed in order to protect someone whom she thought she was in love with. The following quotes came directly from Aileen when she sat in the prison’s interrogation room for three hours admitting to the murders to protect her lover: “The reason I’m confessing is there’s not another girl. I did it. There is no other girl. Tyria is very innocent I don’t want an innocent person hurt” (Aileen Wuornos, 1991). After confessing to protect Tyria one could only imagine the betrayal that Wuornos felt after seeing her ex-girlfriend get on the stand and testify against her. At that time Wuornos felt