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This is your host, Dan Zupansky, for the program True Murder, the most shocking killers

in true crime history, and the authors that have written about them.

Aileen Wernos, the hitchhiking prostitute, shot killed and robbed seven men in remote

Florida locations, in remote Florida locations, arrested in 1991, Wernos insisted she had acted

in self-defense, but the jury condemned her to death and she was executed in 2002.

An abused runaway who turned to prostitution to survive, Wernos had become iconic

of vengeful women who lashed out at the nearest target, she also had become a touchstone

for women's prostitutes and prisoner's rights advocates.

Her story became the basis for the 2003 movie Monster, for which Charlie Theron won an

Academy Award.

Dear Dawn is Wernos autobiography called from her 10-year death row correspondence with

beloved childhood friend Dawn Botkins, authorized for publication by Wernos and edited under

the guidance of Botkins, the letters, not only offer Wernos riveting reflections on the

murders, legal battles, and media coverage, but go further revealing her fears and obsessions

for humor and empathy and her gradual disintegration as her execution approached.

Dear Dawn is the book that we're profiling this evening with my special guest editor and

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