Aileen Wuornos
Killer Psyche
Audible | Treefort Media
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Former FBI agent Candice DeLong looks back at the murders of Aileen Wuornos, one of the first female serial killers in the public consciousness. She explores how Aileen’s case made investigators rethink how they profile serial killers, and why her story inspired multiple books, movies and documentaries. Candice also digs into how Aileen’s horrific childhood left her with so much rage and that she was compelled to kill seven men.
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| 0:22.5 | A listener note, this episode contains adult content and is not suitable for everyone. |
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| 0:42.3 | When I was in training at the FBI, one day we were having a lecture about serial killers |
| 0:48.0 | and I recall the instructor looked around the room and said there's no such thing as |
| 0:55.2 | a female serial killer. |
| 0:57.8 | And I remember thinking what? |
| 1:01.0 | Half the population of the world and not a single one of them does some of the same |
| 1:05.3 | things notorious male killers do? |
| 1:09.1 | So I bit my lip. |
| 1:10.3 | I mean, you don't contradict an FBI instructor in class. |
| 1:14.7 | But I would come to learn they were wrong. |
| 1:18.4 | There's a reason the instructor said that. |
| 1:21.2 | My training for profiling was in the 80s. |
| 1:24.1 | The internet did not exist. |
| 1:26.7 | Archive material wasn't easy to get to. |
| 1:30.1 | And female killers weren't making a big splash. |
| 1:33.6 | Sure, there was the occasional black widow story in the news. |
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