Aileen Wuornos: Part 02 - The Composite Enemy
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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This is part two of a four part series. Last episode, we walked her childhood. The fire at age six. The grandfather and the belt. The kitten in the bucket. The cigarette pig nickname at age eleven. The pregnancy at fourteen. The baby boy taken from her in March of 1971. Her grandmother Britta dying that July. Her grandfather throwing her out a few weeks later. The sleeping bag in the woods on the edge of Troy.
That is where we left her. Tonight we follow her from there.
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| 1:00.7 | In the summer of 1976, the local society pages of a Florida newspaper ran a small wedding announcement. |
| 1:08.7 | A 19-year-old bride, a 69-year-old groom. The groom was the |
| 1:12.9 | president of a local yacht club. The bride was hitchhiking through the state, sleeping wherever |
| 1:18.1 | she could, supporting herself with whatever cash she could pull together off the side of the road. |
| 1:24.7 | The two of them had met by accident. The marriage had come together inside of a few |
| 1:29.4 | weeks. There was a photograph in the paper. There was language about the happy couple. There was a |
| 1:35.6 | tone of mild local human interest. This sort of small town item that runs in a coastal Florida paper |
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