For over a week, jurors listened as prosecutors laid out their case against Eileen Warnos.

According to state attorney John Tanner, Eileen was not a woman acting in fear. She was a predator,

someone who targeted men along Florida's highways, robbed them of their money in their cars,

and then killed them so

there would be no witnesses left behind. But when it came time for the defense to present their

version of what happened, they made a surprising choice. They called only one witness, Eileen

Warnos. And when she took the stand, she told a very different story.

According to Eileen, the night she met 52-year-old Richard Mallory was not the start of a robbery.

It was the beginning of a nightmare.

Over the course of nearly 10 hours of testimony in January of 1992,

Eileen described what she said really happened that night. Her account was graphic, disturbing, and deeply unsettling. She claimed Richard had violently attacked her,

that he raped her, and that she shot him because she believed she was about to be murdered

herself. The question was whether the jury would believe her.

Before this trial was over, the jury would have to decide,

was she a cold-blooded killer?

Or was she fighting to survive?

The prosecution says she is a calculating murderer who targeted her victims.

The defense says she was a traumatized woman who was pushed too far,

but it's the jurors who have the final say.

This is the 13th juror podcast, where we break down real court cases

and put you in the jurors seat.

Two sides, the same evidence.

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