dseag2
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Aileen Wornous interview... not too different from today's conspiracy theorists. Just sayin'.
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Em in Ohio
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I can't watch this - I'm taking a mental health week and am avoiding (as best I can) all negative news and dark topics. Besides, it's 2:45 AM here and disturbing things won't help me get to sleep! (-;
Been There
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Yes, she is really out there.
Tish
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I can't decide if she really believed that or if it was an attempt at insanity.
feywon
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As i understand it this is long after her conviction, as execution date drew close.
Certainly she's not a stable person, but i doubt her mental health issues met the legal criteria of insanity in our country: Was the person capable of distinguishing right from wrong at the time of the crime?
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feywon
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The fixation on the notion that police 'let' her continue to kill likely was spawned by their ineptitude. It is a valid point that she was no criminal mastermind, and likely left prints and other clues. The question is were her prints in any database at the time? If she had an arrest for solicitation they would have printed her, but i'm not sure if all prints go into the AFIS database which did exist as of 1980, some 9 years before her killing spree.
Another factor may have been law enforcement's reluctance to accept the notion of female serial killer. Wournos was not even the first in USA, much less the world. Locusta of Galt was a poisoner for hire who worked for the Roman emperor Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, first century AD. Lavinia Fisher is considered to be the first woman serial killer in the U.S, reportedly active during the early 1800s. Lavinia Fisher was a South Carolina serial killer who would lure men into the inn she ran with her husband. There, she would poison her guest's tea to weaken them, then her husband would kill them.
Female serial killers appear to be less common, but we have to consider if they simply are not caught and prosecuted as effectively. Often when couples kill together the female or her lawyer is able to successfully argue she was manipulated or coerced by the male, even when a survivor testifies to the enthusiasm the woman assailant showed during days or weeks of being held by the couple.
Another factor may have been law enforcement's reluctance to accept the notion of female serial killer. Wournos was not even the first in USA, much less the world. Locusta of Galt was a poisoner for hire who worked for the Roman emperor Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, first century AD. Lavinia Fisher is considered to be the first woman serial killer in the U.S, reportedly active during the early 1800s. Lavinia Fisher was a South Carolina serial killer who would lure men into the inn she ran with her husband. There, she would poison her guest's tea to weaken them, then her husband would kill them.
Female serial killers appear to be less common, but we have to consider if they simply are not caught and prosecuted as effectively. Often when couples kill together the female or her lawyer is able to successfully argue she was manipulated or coerced by the male, even when a survivor testifies to the enthusiasm the woman assailant showed during days or weeks of being held by the couple.
Tish
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I agree they would be reluctant at that notion.
I am pretty sure she was aware of her own wrongdoings yet she puts the blame on the police for not stopping her.
feywon
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Indeed, but that's a fairly common human trait--admitting guilt but then attempting to mitigate that guilt with excuses aout why, and attempting to shift at least some of the blame to others.
Nathan
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Well Wuornos certainly had a sketchy early life, the question is always "nature or nurture". Some of both a lot of times. Her dad was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and was convicted for raping a 7-year-old girl. He later committed suicide in prison. Alcohol, drugs, incest, childhood rape victim, she was molded by these events. Aileen_Wuornos#Early_life
That Wiki says she never knew her father so he couldn't have had much influence on her. More likely it was the mother who abandoned her at age four, the alcoholic grandparents who raised her, or all the men who used her, starting at age 11. But schizophrenia does sometimes run in the family and she certainly sounded paranoid with her fixation on sonic sounds and helicopters watching her. I just feel sorry for her.
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