Aileen Wuornos - The Selling of a Serial Killer

Interesting take on the Wuornos investigation, trials, and the people surrounding Aileen. It's easy to see the woman had many issues stemming from an abusive childhood, followed by a tough life as she grew up on the streets fending for herself. This documentary lends to the possibility that Aileen was raped by the first man she shot. Her testimony on the stand does seem credible.The woman that adopted Aileen and her "paid attorney" convinced her to plead no contest to the other shootings and claimed that Aileen wanted to die. You will see how those people and most around her took advantage of her and her infamousness for profit. Even police officers involved in her case and her ex-lover who knew about her criminal acts were negotiating for movie deals before she was sentenced. Eventually, the officers were caught and reprimanded, but Aileen's ex never was charged with any crime.I study serial killers as a hobby, so I knew quite a bit about Aileen Wuornos. If you like the same kind of stuff, you will enjoy. I didn't give it all away.

I find Aileen's story and accusations of ppl doing whatever to make money from her sad/tragic life and death intriguing. By Nick going into her background and women not being serial killers by nature seems like this woman was set up to fail in life. NOT at all that she had the right to kill but there certainly was a horrible backstory to this 1 lost person & others "selling" her story while she sat in Prison...I DO give her credit for coming forward to the families of those men she murdered and telling them the truth of the situations.That the men were NOT all trying to hurt her as she maintained at her trial. Her honesty about wanting the imminent death for her actions to come quickly instead of sitting on death row over a decade.

The story of Aileen Wournous is at frist glance morbid and somehow incomplete. Where some light finally shines is in this brilliant and unflinching documentary. More than the story of what makes a serial killer - this is the story of one womans free fall through the cracks of society. Where everyone drops the ball in one giant foul play of greed and incompetance.From the police that arrested her and were eventually fired in a sting operation for peddling her movie rights. To the woman who adopted her to sell interviews at 10 grand a pop to her incompetent lawyer who both abused her civil rights and sold her out. And all the way back to her tormented childhood - this film is terrifying but not so much for her crimes as it is for the collective rape of her rights before she was found guilty by due process.The film doesn't excuse her crimes nor does it try and justify them. It's unflinching and blinding light comes from Wauornes herself as she exposes each dark corner and each secret of both her life as a killer and the Laws and institutions that failed her.

PTSD, if left untreated after a traumatic event will disrupt your life so severely that you are only reacting out of fear when triggered. This is what happened to Aileen.Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women, also shed light into her childhood and what led to her becoming a prostitute.

I don't think she was a serial killer. Never did. Lots of men abuse prostitutes.

I am not really interested in Wournos but came across this documentary looking for good serial killer documentaries that I haven't watched on amazon prime yet. This was really a good watch, even though, the end seemed a bit hurried. Otherwise, I really enjoyed this documentary & think it is worth watching.

If you are a fan of "True Crime", then this film is a must see. To be fair, it begins slow. There are many "And now we are at the prison to see Aileen.....but she won't see us. So instead lets go see....". At one point, I almost ejected the disc and to discard it. But in the last 20 or 30 minutes, the interview with Aileen Wuornos began. From what I have seen on other documentaries, I viewed her as either stoic, or entirely angry. In the interview, she was, at times, giddy and happy as a school girl, always smiling and trying to be charming. Once it finished, I had to go back and watch the interview again. Amazing. A few days later, I watched it again.

I like Nick Broomfield, and a lot of the documentaries he has done. I believe her story is so tragic, because she was so real. To me, she fascinated me from the first film, I have a hard time wrapping my head around someone who goes that far just for some money and a car. No reason or rhyme in any of it. That they did not prosecute her significant other truly surprised me. All in all, I thought it insightful and informative.

Pretty good documentary.Worth watching.The 2002 interviews one is way more interesting & has better interviews though.