REQUIEM FOR A FEMALE SERIAL KILLER-Phyllis Chesler
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.
This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America.
Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women's rage, a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children, and of how our justice system fails women.
Chesler's involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos' voice, as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman who had endured so much pain in her short life. When she'd had enough, the results were deadly.
This is a poignant, sometimes humorous, never-before-told behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos' story is handled with great sensitivity, but also with realistic detachment by Chesler as she probes the telling moment, the telling phrase. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a "killing field?" Was she also "born evil?" So many prostitutes have been torture-murdered by serial killers-how did Wuornos, once prey, become a predator?
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer will also haunt you. It won't let you put it down.
Take a walk on the wild side. The ghost of Aileen Wuornos beckons. REQUIEM FOR A FEMALE SERIAL KILLER-Phyllis Chesler 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 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History, |
| 0:12.8 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:15.4 | Gasey, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker, BCK, every week, another fascinating author |
| 0:23.2 | talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History. |
| 0:27.7 | True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufanski. |
| 0:42.7 | Good evening. |
| 0:44.5 | This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer. |
| 0:50.4 | A prostitute who murdered seven adult men, a case with which the author was intimately |
| 0:56.2 | involved. |
| 0:58.0 | The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. |
| 1:04.2 | Women even prostitutes have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice the story is more |
| 1:09.6 | complicated. |
| 1:11.1 | This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, |
| 1:15.1 | and justice in America. |
| 1:17.2 | Aiding Warnos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women's rage, a symbol |
| 1:23.4 | of what can happen to severely abuse children and of how our justice system fails women. |
| 1:30.7 | Chessler's involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. |
| 1:34.2 | She speaks in Aiding Warnos's voice as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, |
| 1:40.2 | original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman |
| 1:46.8 | who endured so much pain in her short life. |
| 1:50.4 | When she had had enough, the results were deadly. |
| 1:54.6 | This is a point that sometimes humorous, never before told behind the scenes tale. |
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