The Damsel of Death: Aileen Wuornos and the Florida Highway Murders
On a Florida roadside, a man pulls over. A woman gets in. By morning his car is empty and his body is in the woods. That happened seven times in twelve months.
Host Alexander Lawson traces Aileen Wuornos from a leap-year childhood in Rochester, Michigan, to the interstates of central and north Florida in 1989 and 1990. Seven men were shot and dumped near the highway. Six death sentences followed. In 2002, Florida executed her.
This episode covers the victims — Richard Mallory, David Spears, Charles Carskaddon, Peter Siems, Troy Burress, Dick Humphreys, and Walter Antonio — the partnership…
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