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The Real Reason Why Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos Confessed to Police About Her Crimes
Aileen “Lee” Wuornos is infamously known for killing seven men across central Florida between 1989 and 1990. While her high-profile case inspired the 2003 movie Monster, even more insight into her story was revealed in Netflix’s documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, including the real reason she confessed to her crimes.
The documentary includes a phone call between Wuornos and her then-girlfriend, Tyria Moore, that was taped while the convicted murderer was in jail. “Lee, [the police] are coming after me,” Moore told Wuornos, who then emotionally revealed why she confessed to the crimes.
“I’m not gonna let you go to jail. Ty, I love you. If I have to confess everything just to keep you from getting in trouble, I will,” Wuornos told Moore.
After Wuornos made the confession, she was convicted for six of the murders in 1992. However, she did insist that all of the murders she committed were in self-defense, according to Deadline, claiming that her victims either raped her or attempted to rape her.
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Following her trial, she was sentenced to death and was then executed by the state of Florida in 2002.
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers will give viewers more insight into Wuornos’ case and includes interview footage with the convicted killer when she was on Florida’s death row.
“Aileen said, ‘I’m going to talk to you about the truth of my crimes,’ and from watching this interview, a very different version of her comes through—contradictory, very human, at times quite disturbing,” director Emily Turner told People about her time with Wuornos.
Wuornos also said in her death row interview that the “real Aileen Wuornos isn’t a serial killer.” She added, “I was so lost I turned into one.”
The documentary will depict Wuornos’ difficult childhood. After she was abandoned by her parents at the age of 4, she was adopted by her grandparents in Michigan. In addition to becoming pregnant at 13 and giving her baby up for adoption, Wuornos was reportedly beaten by her grandfather and claimed she was sexually assaulted by her teenage friends.
She ran away from home when she was 16 and started traveling as a sex worker. “I’m hitchhiking, and I’m hooking,” she said in the documentary. “I slept under viaducts, in abandoned homes, in cow pastures. I must have been raped, I’d say, about 30 times, maybe more.”
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Viewers will also learn more about Wuornos’ four-year relationship with Moore, which began in 1986 when they met at a bar in Daytona Beach, Florida. “I loved her so bad,” Wuornos said. “[She’s the] only reason I carried that darn gun. I wanted to make sure that I got home alive—so I’d be another day breathing with her.”
Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers premieres on Netflix on Thursday, October 30.
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