Aileen Wuornos: The Story Behind America's Most Feared Female Killer Pt. 1
5/19/202634 min
Before Aileen Wuornos became one of America's most feared female serial killers, she was a 13-year-old girl who was assaulted and impregnated by a stranger, gave birth completely alone, and came home to a family that blamed her. In the first of three episodes on Aileen Wuornos, Katie Ring traces the story of a woman the world expected to be a victim, and how a lifetime of abandonment, abuse, and betrayal set her on a path no one tried to redirect. From a childhood in Michigan to the Florida highways where it all came to an end, this is the story of how Aileen Wuornos was made. This episode contains descriptions of physical and sexual assault, abuse, and murder. Please listen with care. Head over to our America’s Most Infamous Crimes YouTube channel to WATCH this episode: https://www.youtube.com/@AmericasMostInfamousCrimes If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow America’s Most Infamous Crimes to never miss a case! For ad-free listening subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. America’s Most Infamous Crimes is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. 🎧 Need More to Binge? Listen to other Crime House Originals Clues, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, Murder True Crime Stories, and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow me on Social Instagram: @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios X: @crimehousemedia YouTube: @AmericasMostInfamousCrimes America’s Most Infamous Crimes is hosted by Katie Ring Instagram: @the.self.defense.girl TikTok: @the.self.defense.girl To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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There's a story we tell ourselves about serial killers, that they look a certain way, that they act a certain way, and that most of the time they're men. Aileen Wuornos changed that all. She was a woman, a sex worker, exactly the kind of person you would expect to be a victim, the kind of person whose suffering goes unnoticed, whose disappearance barely registers, whose story gets filed away and forgotten. Instead, she became one of the most feared killers in American history. Between 1989 and 1990, she shot seven men dead along the highways and back roads of Florida, and when the police finally caught her, what they found forced this country to confront something it wasn't fully prepared for. [upbeat music] Every crime tells a story about the people involved, the system that tried to stop it, and the nation that couldn't look away. Some cases are so shocking, so deeply woven into who we are, that decades later we're still asking, how did this happen? I'm Katie Ring, and this is America's Most Infamous Crimes. Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I'll take you deep into the cases that have a lasting imprint on society and still haunt us today. I wanna thank you for being part of the Crime House community. Please rate, review, and follow America's Most Infamous Crimes wherever you get your podcasts. And to get