Told in her own words, this is 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.