Monster: My True Story - Softcover

Christopher Berry-Dee, Aileen Wuornos &

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844542378 ISBN 13: 9781844542376

Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2006

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Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida, on the 9th of October, 2002 at the age of 46. She was the 10th woman to be sentenced to death in the USA since the death penalty resumed in 1976. Convicted for the murder of six men, in a two month period, Aileen claimed she acted in self defence however the investigation into these claims was poor and she later retracted her statement announcing to the Supreme Court, "I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again."

All-too-often female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - the killings of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos were the inverse of this. She was a child prostitute, fleeing an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, which led straight into a disastrous adulthood of difficult affairs with both men and women. Her metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. Following a renewed interest in this woman after the film "Monster", this is her story in her own words.

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Christopher Berry-Dee is the editor of The New Criminologist and the director of the Criminology Research Centre. He has published, with Robin Odell, 'Dad, Help Me Please' the story of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig and 'Unmasking Mr Kipper' which was an in-depth study of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh. More recently he published 'Talking with Serial Killers' a major title, which investigated the minds and dark personalities of those who kill and kill again. He is adept in his role as a source of information on these matters for the media and frequently appears on television.

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Monster

Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

By Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry-Dee

John Blake Publishing Ltd

Copyright © 2006 Christopher Berry-Dee
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-84454-237-6

Contents

Title Page, 
Dedication, 
Introduction: 'You want to know why I killed?', 
PART ONE 'WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A NUN.', 
Chapter One: The Cigarette Bandit, 
Chapter Two: The Odd Couple, 
Chapter Three: Tyria Jolene Moore, 
PART TWO 'OF COURSE I DIDN'T REALLY WANT TO KILL THEM IN MY HEART, BUT I KNEW I HAD TO.', 
Chapter Four: Richard Mallory, 
Chapter Five: David Spears, 
Chapter Six: Charles 'Chuck' Carskaddon, 
Chapter Seven: Peter Siems, 
Chapter Eight: Eugene 'Troy' Burress, 
Chapter Nine: Curtis 'Corky' Reid, 
Chapter Ten: Charles 'Dick' Humphreys, 
Chapter Eleven: Walter Gino Antonio, 
PART THREE 'AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR CORPSE.', 
Chapter Twelve: Parting Company, 
Chapter Thirteen: The Arrest, 
Chapter Fourteen: Aileen Wuornos's Confession – In Her Own Words, 
Chapter Fifteen: The Execution, 
Chapter Sixteen: The Movie, 
PART FOUR MAD OR BAD?, 
Chapter Seventeen: Damaged Beyond Repair, 
Chronology of events and dates, 
Copyright, 

CHAPTER 1

THE CIGARETTE BANDIT

MY MOTHER PLUCKED ME OUT OF HER BELLY AND LEFT ME WITH MY GRANDPARENTS. WE NEVER KNEW THE DAMNED WHORE. WE NEVER SAW HER AGAIN EXCEPT FOR FUNERALS. I SPIT ON HER. SHE CAN GO TO HELL.

OUR MOTHER SHIT-CANNED US TWO KIDS. THE MOTHERFUCKING BITCH WHORE SENT US IN A HANDBASKET TO HELL.

MY STEPFATHER WOULD BEAT ME OFTEN AFTER SCHOOL OR IF I CAME HOME LATE. HE'D MAKE ME CUT DOWN A WILLOW BRANCH AND HE'D USE THAT. I SOON LEARNED THAT THE THICKER THE BRANCH, THE LESS IT HURT. SOMETIMES HE USED TO BEAT ME WITH A BELT, THEN HE MADE ME CLEAN IT.

The twenty-ninth of February is a unique day. It was created artificially to try to make up for the fact that our year is really a few hours longer than 365 days. Aileen Carol Pittman was a Piscean leap-year child. She entered this world, a happy, healthy tot, on Wednesday, 29 February 1956, wrapped up in the warm and secure environment of Clinton Hospital, Detroit, Rochester, Michigan. Her parents were 14-year-old (some say 16-year-old) Diane Wuornos and 19-year-old handyman, sexual pervert and child molester Leo Dale Pittman. Many claim that Leo was a highly sexed, dictatorial figure who carried guns, but we know that they were married with the blessing of his grandmother who lied about their ages. So, one might say, Aileen was born – a dangerous breach birth – with both small feet on the wrong side of the tracks in small-town America.

The marriage between Diane and Leo proved to be tumultuous and, as is all too common in the western world's throwaway society, destined for failure. Indeed, it ended a few months before Lee was born: Leo left the young Diane to raise the new baby and her older brother Keith, a product of the same coupling.

Lee never knew her genetic father, who was soon jailed on the capital charges of kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old girl and taking her across state lines. There is some evidence to suggest that he had also killed a young girl. Leo was to spend some time in two secure mental hospitals. In 1971, while he was in a Michigan prison, this singularly nasty piece of work conveniently fashioned a noose from a bed sheet then hanged himself.

With small-city people living from hand to mouth, it is not surprising that Diane soon found the responsibil

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1844542378
• ISBN 13: 9781844542376
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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