# 10-Lethal Intent-Aileen Wournos by Sue Russell
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 19 March 2010
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In January 1991, pawnshop records led to the arrest of Aileen Carol Wournos, aka 'Lee' an abusive, alcoholic man-hater with a murderous hairtrigger temper.
Tired of turning 20 dollar tricks and often being abused Wournos decided to rob her customers of everything they had-including their lives.
Her arrest and trial prompted a world-wide media frenzy. In the end Wournos recieved 6 seperate death sentences. Lethal Intent is the definitive account of a killer who confounded the profiling experts, forever changing their concepts of the crimes of which a woman is capable. Guest author and journalist Sue Russell Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com
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| 0:00.0 | Why it? |
| 0:01.0 | Love for radiance. |
| 0:12.0 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history, |
| 0:17.6 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:20.1 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, DCK, every week, another fascinating author talking |
| 0:28.2 | about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. |
| 0:32.4 | True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello, this is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking |
| 0:51.1 | killers in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:55.5 | On November 30, 1989, in Florida, a man was shot four times by a naked, heart-faced |
| 1:01.2 | blonde prostitute. |
| 1:03.2 | He suffered a slow, agonizing death while the woman stripped him of his valuables and |
| 1:07.5 | drove his Cadillac back to the motel where her lesbian lover was waiting. |
| 1:13.4 | In 1990, her killings pre-kicked into high gear, with three men slain in three weeks. |
| 1:19.2 | Of the six of seven male victims whose bodies were found, some were nude, all had been |
| 1:24.0 | robbed and shot dead. |
| 1:26.1 | In January 1991, pawnshop records led to the arrest of Alene Carol Warnos, aka Lee, an |
| 1:34.7 | abusive alcoholic man-hater with a murderous hair-trigger temper, tired of turning $20 tricks |
| 1:41.0 | and often being abused, Warnos decided to rob her customers of everything they had, including |
| 1:46.4 | their lives. |
| 1:47.6 | Her arrest in trial prompted a worldwide media frenzy and even an Academy Award-winning |
| 1:51.9 | movie monster. |
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