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Aileen Wuornos: The Story Behind One of America's Most Controversial Criminal Cases · The conspiracy

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  Speaker 1: Serial killers come in all shapes and sizes and have
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  Speaker 1: existed since the beginning of time. However, the rise in
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  Speaker 1: popularity makes us look back and wonder why they have
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  Speaker 1: existed at all. From psychological inability to a bad childhood,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to pinpoint exactly what went wrong. However, a
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  Speaker 1: murderer isn't specific to one type of person. It could
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  Speaker 1: be anyone, and that's someone today is Eileen Wormhouse, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: known as.
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  Speaker 2: The Damsel of Death. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder,
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  Speaker 2: all things that I love to consume, and I know.
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  Speaker 3: You do too, you sick, beautiful, deliciously delectable, smart, fabulous,
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  Speaker 3: very well-dressed, Yes, today we are talking about the infamous
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  Speaker 3: Eileen Wuornos, one of the most famous female serial killers
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  Speaker 3: of all time, at least in the media.
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  Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seat belts, go
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  Speaker 1: Mach 5 down the highway, slam on the brakes, and
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  Speaker 1: bust through this windshield into this female serial killer together.
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  Speaker 1: So Eileen Wuornos, otherwise known as Eileen Pittman, was born
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  Speaker 1: in Rochester, Michigan on February 29th, 1956. And her childhood
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  Speaker 1: was already off to a bad start due to her
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  Speaker 1: parents not really being.
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  Speaker 2: Model citizens that you would expect them to be.
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  Speaker 1: Her mother, Diane Wuornos, was a 14 year old girl
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  Speaker 1: when she got married to her father.
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  Speaker 2: Leo Pittman, who was 18 years old.
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  Speaker 1: Not like crazy uncommon for the time, but they were
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  Speaker 1: pretty young.
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  Speaker 2: To say the least.
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  Speaker 1: So they had their first child, Eileen's older brother, Keith.
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  Speaker 1: And the couple was married two years before Diane filed
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  Speaker 1: for divorce. And that was two months before Eileen would
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  Speaker 1: be conceived, with her mother only being 16 at the time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, what was I doing when I was 16, man?
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  Speaker 2: I was sneaking out of the house, going to 7-Eleven
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  Speaker 2: to get shitty pizza. and Slim Jims.
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  Speaker 1: So Eileen would never actually meet her father, and years later,
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  Speaker 1: in 1967, he would be charged and imprisoned with a
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  Speaker 1: life sentence for kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old girl. And
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  Speaker 1: her father clearly suffered from mental health issues, but one
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  Speaker 1: of which was schizophrenia, and he would later hang himself
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  Speaker 1: in his cell in 1969. And this would be a
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  Speaker 1: strain on Diane, now having to take care of two
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  Speaker 1: of her children all alone. She was a teen mom
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  Speaker 1: and made a decision to abandon her children, pretty much,
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  Speaker 1: leaving them with her parents, Lori and Britta Wuornos, who honestly,
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  Speaker 1: weren't much better than Eileen's first parents. The couple were
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately raging alcoholics, but they were the only people willing
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  Speaker 1: to take care of the two children, later adopting them
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  Speaker 1: on March 18th, 1960. And Eileen's childhood would just delve
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  Speaker 1: deeper into chaos as time went on. Sorry, I gotta
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  Speaker 1: put my glasses on. I don't know why I always
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  Speaker 1: start these without putting my glasses on. Because, oh my God, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I can see, crazy. Grandma Chris coming at you. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so at only 11 years old, Eileen would start engaging
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  Speaker 1: in drugs and using cigarettes on a daily basis and
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  Speaker 1: also using her body as currency. She would begin doing
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  Speaker 1: lady of the nighting, if you will, and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: always with strangers. Apparently, she had even engaged in those
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  Speaker 1: kind of activities with her own brother, Keith. So we're
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  Speaker 1: already starting off just in some of the worst ways
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  Speaker 1: you can as a child, being born into parents that
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  Speaker 1: can't take care of you.
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  Speaker 2: One of them has serious mental health issues, commits crimes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously slewer-slidal as well as schizophrenic and the
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  Speaker 1: mother's not willing to take care. It's just, and the
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  Speaker 1: parents are alcoholics. Like talk about a recipe for disaster.
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  Speaker 1: And when we talk about nature versus nurture, I think
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  Speaker 1: this is a whole lot of nurture. With Eileen's case personally,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's nature in there somewhere, especially
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  Speaker 1: with the mental health issues that her father had, but
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  Speaker 1: she was not set up for success. Not that I'm
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  Speaker 1: giving any excuses for killing anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I never do that.
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  Speaker 1: But it's unfortunate is what it is. And Eileen's childhood
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  Speaker 1: would just get even rougher with her grandfather beating her
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  Speaker 1: with a belt on a daily basis. And eventually the
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  Speaker 1: beatings became more of a thrill than pain for her
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  Speaker 1: due to her warped mind. And her grandfather would also
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  Speaker 1: eventually SA her leading her to assume different positions for beatings,
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  Speaker 1: even while naked sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Just heartbreaking stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And during this time, at 14 or 15 years old,
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  Speaker 1: Eileen would actually give birth to a boy who was
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  Speaker 1: sent to an unwed mother's home.
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  Speaker 2: And there, the boy would be adopted from her in 1971.
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  Speaker 1: Other sources claim that she ran away from home, but
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  Speaker 1: others state that she was kicked out by her grandfather.
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  Speaker 1: And to sustain life on her own, she would begin
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  Speaker 1: delving more into Lady of the Nighting to survive on
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  Speaker 1: her own. And in that same year, her grandmother passed
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  Speaker 1: away from liver failure. So all of this just made
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  Speaker 1: it harder and harder to find friends in her community.
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  Speaker 1: She had no family at this point. Being excluded from
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  Speaker 1: her original mother to being kicked out by her grandfather
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  Speaker 1: just left her feeling incredibly isolated at this point. And
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  Speaker 1: dropping out of school also didn't help this case, and
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  Speaker 1: her priorities were clearly set on other things. So just, again, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just an ingredient in the unfortunate serial killer soup. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like in the case of Eileen, this.
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  Speaker 2: Actually could have been avoided.
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  Speaker 1: Like, this was just the system failing her, her parents
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  Speaker 1: failing her, community, everybody just failed her.
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  Speaker 2: Again, not an excuse, but... really unfortunate.
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  Speaker 1: So this whole shitstorm would collectively mold her into the
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  Speaker 1: murderer that she unfortunately became. So determined to make it
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  Speaker 1: in the world herself, she started to travel pretty extensively
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  Speaker 1: at this point. And her means of travel would usually
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  Speaker 1: be alongside the highways.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta keep telling you, don't hitchhike, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Auntie Chris, or right now, Grandma Chris says never hitchhike,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
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  Speaker 2: Don't do it, okay.
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  Speaker 1: But she would get rides along the highway And she
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  Speaker 1: would do that by selling her body through prostitution to
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  Speaker 1: continue to raise money for herself, to make a life
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  Speaker 1: for herself. So she didn't really have any choice at
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  Speaker 1: this point, or she didn't feel that she had any
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  Speaker 1: choice at this point. And this was obviously dangerous for
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  Speaker 1: anyone at any age, but for a girl that was
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  Speaker 1: a teenager especially, it was.
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  Speaker 2: Especially dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: And this wouldn't be the only crime that she committed,
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  Speaker 1: now that she was on her own, falling upon other
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  Speaker 1: minor offenses with the law. At 18 years old in 1974,
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  Speaker 1: she was arrested for a DUI, for example. Also disorderly
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  Speaker 1: conduct and firing a.
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  Speaker 2: 22 from a moving vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: And she would eventually stumble across a 69-year-old man named
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  Speaker 1: Louis Gratz Fell, a yacht club president she met while
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  Speaker 1: hitchhiking her way to Florida. And this was her golden
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  Speaker 1: ticket to a better life, and she married him very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: So she was basically speedrunning anything that came her way.
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  Speaker 2: And marriage did not stop her.
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  Speaker 1: She would continue to commit crimes also, specifically an assault
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  Speaker 1: in a local bar. And she would also allegedly hit-fell
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  Speaker 1: her husband. with his own cane, which made him realize
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  Speaker 1: that he had made a grave mistake. And he would
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  Speaker 1: later file a restraining order against her and get their
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  Speaker 1: marriage annulled. Which, by the way, was only two weeks
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  Speaker 1: into their relationship.
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  Speaker 2: That's, those are some Kim K numbers.
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  Speaker 1: So she was obviously not really built for long lasting relationships,
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  Speaker 1: but we look back at her childhood, And that kind
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  Speaker 1: of makes sense. Again, like to be beating someone with
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  Speaker 1: a cane is not good. I don't know what else
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  Speaker 1: is going on behind closed doors, but she's just, she's just,
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  Speaker 1: she's not coming from a good place. She came from monsters.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what made her become a monster herself. And
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  Speaker 1: she would later get wind of her brother Keith's passing,
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  Speaker 1: getting $ 10, 000 in life insurance as a payout. And she
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  Speaker 1: would blow this money instantly on a car, only to later.
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  Speaker 2: Crash it and completely wreck it.
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  Speaker 1: And she would have extra money, but blew it all away,
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  Speaker 1: living on luxuries such as nicer motels and just more.
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  Speaker 1: So she wasn't the happiest person, of course. And supposedly
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  Speaker 1: in 1978, at only 22 years old, she tried slower
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  Speaker 1: slide by shooting herself in the stomach.
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  Speaker 2: And this wasn't actually the.
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  Speaker 1: First time, as from 14 to 22, she attempted around
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  Speaker 1: six times. So she wasn't in a great situation and
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  Speaker 1: her mental health was obviously very unstable, And she was
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  Speaker 1: going from a relationship to another relationship from town to
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  Speaker 1: town with no friends or family to back her up
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  Speaker 1: in any way. So she just felt lost. And what
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  Speaker 1: she really needed was money. But since she spent all
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  Speaker 1: of her brother's life insurance, she had to get it
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  Speaker 1: by other means. So her first crime would be armed
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  Speaker 1: robbery on May 20th, 1981. She walked into a convenience
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  Speaker 1: store in Edgewater, Florida, stealing $ 35 and two packs of cigarettes.
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  Speaker 1: And she would spend some time in prison, and she
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  Speaker 1: would be released on June 30th, 1983. And a year later,
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  Speaker 1: on May of 1984, she was arrested again, and this
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  Speaker 1: time for forgery in Key West, while trying to cash
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  Speaker 1: forged checks. And in 1986, she would be arrested again
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  Speaker 1: in Miami for car theft, resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
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  Speaker 2: She just couldn't stop.
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  Speaker 1: It was almost like she was addicted to the crime
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  Speaker 1: and wasn't smart enough to not get caught. However, everything
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  Speaker 1: would change when she would walk into a gay bar
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  Speaker 1: called the Zodiac, which yes, I see the parallels of
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  Speaker 1: that with another serial killer being named and a serial
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  Speaker 1: killer walking into it.
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  Speaker 2: Just those lines crossing.
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  Speaker 1: So on December 13th, 1989, a man's corpse would be
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  Speaker 1: found in a wooded area off of I-95 with two
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  Speaker 1: bullets in his chest. And later it would be discovered
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  Speaker 1: that this body was a man named Richard Mallory. And
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  Speaker 1: Richard was a 51 year old owner of an electronics
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  Speaker 1: repair shop in Clearwater, Florida. And Richard was a flawed
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  Speaker 1: man to say the least for his addiction to.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies of the night, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And one day he would close up his shop kind
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  Speaker 1: of abruptly and then just disappeared, which was not a
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  Speaker 1: shock to most because he was known to binge drink
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  Speaker 1: and go on these Sejual binges as well. And he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have any close connections for anyone to notice
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  Speaker 1: that he disappeared, at least soon. However, two young men
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  Speaker 1: would be looking for scrap metal off the Interstate 95,
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  Speaker 1: where they would find Richard Mallory. And when they found him,
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  Speaker 1: they would see two holes in his chest, which had.
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  Speaker 2: 22 caliber bullets in them.
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  Speaker 1: And suspicions apparently fell on a stripper named Chastity, who
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  Speaker 1: actually claimed she did murder him. However, this was a
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  Speaker 1: dead end as she said the story in a burst
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  Speaker 1: of anger and it was just not true.
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  Speaker 2: And the case would later go cold.
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  Speaker 1: And investigators would learn later from Eileen's confession that she
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  Speaker 1: stole a radar detector, camera, and an undisclosed amount of
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  Speaker 1: money from him. And she would also state on trial
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  Speaker 1: and to investigators that it was in the interest of self-defense,
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  Speaker 1: claiming that Mallory had graped her, beat her, and sodomized her,
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  Speaker 1: leading to her to take those specific actions. And those
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  Speaker 1: actions being shooting him twice in the chest. But this
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  Speaker 1: is stuff that we just don't know. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like we have to take her word for it or
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  Speaker 1: we take the prosecutor's word for it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just something we're not sure of.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, there's obviously a movie, Monster, with a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful Charlize Theron who did such a wonderful job in
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  Speaker 1: that movie, where they portrayed a certain way and whether
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  Speaker 1: that was the way that everything went, we don't know specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but do with that what you will.
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  Speaker 2: Let's continue.
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  Speaker 1: So the next victim was a man by the name
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  Speaker 1: of David. Spears, who was a 43 year old man
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  Speaker 1: from Sarasota, Florida. And he was a heavy equipment operator
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  Speaker 1: who was last seen on May 19th, 1990. And he
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  Speaker 1: had apparently told his boss that he was traveling to Orlando,
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  Speaker 1: but apparently just never made it there. And his truck
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  Speaker 1: would be found on June 1st, 1990 and his corp
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  Speaker 1: with several.
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  Speaker 2: Bullet holes in it. Yet again, from a.
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  Speaker 4: 22.
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  Speaker 1: So the truck was unlocked, the license plate was missing,
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  Speaker 1: and the only other thing left on his corpse was
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  Speaker 1: a used condom. And his death would just be another
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  Speaker 1: mystery with no leads. And the next victim would be
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  Speaker 1: Charles Karskaden, a 40-year-old part-time rodeo worker. And on June 6, 1990,
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  Speaker 1: his body would be found in Pasco County, wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: an electric blanket.
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  Speaker 2: And the body was.
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  Speaker 1: Severely deteriorated and completely unrecognizable. Medical examiners couldn't even find fingerprints,
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  Speaker 1: so it was difficult to estimate the time of his death.
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  Speaker 1: And this body had nine holes in it, again, with a.
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  Speaker 1: 22 caliber bullet. And this body wasn't identified until much,
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  Speaker 1: much later, but detectives relayed the case to Citrus County,
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  Speaker 1: where other bodies had been found, estimating a connection could
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  Speaker 1: be with both of them.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Syams would.
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  Speaker 1: Be the next victim, who was a 65-year-old retired merchant seaman.
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  Speaker 1: And in June 1990, he left Jupiter, Florida to travel
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  Speaker 1: to Arkansas to see his relatives. And his car, a
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  Speaker 1: 1988 Pontiac Sunbird, I had a Pontiac Sunfire when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, I loved that car, anyway, was found
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  Speaker 1: completely smashed up.
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  Speaker 2: Not my car, his car.
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  Speaker 1: And there was bloodstains throughout the interior, and the license
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  Speaker 1: plate was missing yet again. And his body, unfortunately, was
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  Speaker 1: not found. And there was small hope that he had survived.
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  Speaker 1: And the next victim would be Troy Larson. Burris, a
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  Speaker 1: 50-year-old sausage salesman who went on a regular delivery route
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  Speaker 1: on July 30th. But the manager, Johnny Thompson, noticed that
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  Speaker 1: he didn't return later that afternoon. And calling around, he
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  Speaker 1: found out that he hadn't showed up for his last
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  Speaker 1: few delivery stops. So noticing that he went missing, the
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  Speaker 1: manager went looking for him and the police were notified.
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  Speaker 2: And at 4 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, off the shoulder of State Road 19,
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle was found unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: With the keys and Troy... completely missing.
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  Speaker 1: And it took five days until his body was found
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  Speaker 1: in a clearing off Highway 19 in Ocala National Forest,
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  Speaker 1: where the body would be identified as Troy Burris by
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  Speaker 1: his wedding ring.
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  Speaker 2: Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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  Speaker 1: And the cause of death for Troy would be two
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  Speaker 1: shots from a. 22 in the chest and one in
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  Speaker 1: the back. But unfortunately, they still had no.
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  Speaker 2: Leads at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was Charles Humphrey, who was a 56-year-old
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  Speaker 1: retired United States Air Force major. He was actually a
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  Speaker 1: former chief state of police and a former state child
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  Speaker 1: abuse investigator for Florida's Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services.
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  Speaker 1: And on September 10th, he would celebrate his 35th anniversary
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  Speaker 1: of marriage. However, just the next day, he would completely disappear.
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  Speaker 1: And on September 12th, his body would be found in
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  Speaker 1: Marion County. And his body would be littered with seven
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  Speaker 1: bullet wounds, with one being in his head. And we
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  Speaker 1: would learn much later that all that was taken from
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  Speaker 1: him was $ 300. And a while later, in November, a
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  Speaker 1: nude body was found on a logging road in Dixie
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  Speaker 1: County and would be identified as Walter Antonio. And Antonio
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  Speaker 1: was a six-year-old trucker who also worked as a security
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  Speaker 1: guard and a member of the reserve police. And the
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  Speaker 1: body was found with 22 caliber bullet holes, four of
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  Speaker 1: them to be specific. And this would be the freshest
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  Speaker 1: body that they found being found only 24 hours after
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  Speaker 1: his death. And after hearing all of this, police went
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  Speaker 1: through each murder to figure out who the hell could
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  Speaker 1: be responsible. So the series of killings over the next
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  Speaker 1: few years were all questioned by detectives. What were their motives?
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  Speaker 1: What were their pattern? What was taken from each of
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  Speaker 1: the victims? Why did each one have a 22 caliber
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  Speaker 1: bullet wound? Why were all the bodies dumped in the woods?
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  Speaker 1: And why were the license plates taken away? And the
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  Speaker 1: answer would fall on a story from a witness who
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  Speaker 1: saw two women crash their car. So on July 4th,
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  Speaker 1: a car veered off the road near Orange Springs and
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  Speaker 1: landed in some bushes. And a witness, Rhonda Bailey, would
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  Speaker 1: see two women crash the car and also scramble out
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  Speaker 1: of the car. They began to argue really loudly and
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  Speaker 1: throw beer cans out into the woods, cussing each other
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  Speaker 1: out and just being crazy. And she witnessed one of
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  Speaker 1: the women was bleeding from her arm. So she would
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  Speaker 1: approach her, because she's a good civilian, and she would
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  Speaker 1: begin to converse with her. And the woman begged Bailey
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  Speaker 1: not to call the police, stating her father was nearby.
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  Speaker 1: Then both women would just hop back into the car,
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  Speaker 1: which was in horrible condition, and drive off. But after
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  Speaker 1: driving for a little bit, the car would eventually just
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  Speaker 1: give up and die, which then they would abandon and
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  Speaker 1: just start walking. And when police would investigate the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: they found it to be a Pontiac Sunbird with a
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  Speaker 1: windshield that was smashed.
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  Speaker 2: And it was Peter Seam's car, one of the victims.
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  Speaker 1: So the police eventually got a read on the two women,
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  Speaker 1: that of Tyria Moore and.
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  Speaker 2: Eileen Wuornos.
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  Speaker 1: And previous witnesses said that they had sold one or
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  Speaker 1: the other an RV, while another said that they stayed
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  Speaker 1: at a motel and knew their names. And eventually detectives
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  Speaker 1: and police were able to locate where Eileen was located.
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  Speaker 1: She was at a biker bar called La Last Resort
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: in Volusia.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: County, Florida. Sorry if I said that wrong.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: And they needed someone to speak to Eileen undercover. And
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that person would be Officer Mike Joyner. So he would
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: go undercover with the name, this is a great name, uh, Buckethead.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Very believable. Because supposedly nobody used their real names in
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: this specific biker bar, so this wasn't like too shocking.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: And he knew what she would want and how to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: get her attention by flashing money around her and offering
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: her cigarettes and free beer. That's like a how to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: get with Eileen 101. And this would open up her
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: mouth Easily, to say the least. She would talk about
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: her girlfriend, Tyria Moore, how she moved out and left
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: her alone, and how she was lonely because of it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And the next day, Eileen would call the guy, the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: undercover cop, to bring all the money and that she
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: would show him a really good time.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: And before they could even get to the motel, let.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Alone leave the bar, both Mike and Eileen were arrested
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: on January 9th, 1991.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: To what? To what? To what what?
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: To what what?
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, police didn't have much to go by, despite
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: her prints matching the ones found in dead.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Peter Seams' car.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: And police had tracked down Tyria in Pennsylvania, asking for
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: her involvement in the murders. And she would plead completely
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: innocent to them and said she would work for the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: police in order to get a confession out of Eileen.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Snitches get stitches. And she would call.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Eileen Wuornos, stating that she didn't want to get arrested.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Eileen, listen, they're coming after me. I know they are.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: And why are they asking so many questions then? Honey, listen, listen, listen.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to let you go to jail.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: I love you a lot.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: I don't know whether I should keep on living or
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: if I should.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: No time, Tyler. And what if they don't believe me?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I remember. What?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: I don't have to let you go to jail or anything.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: If I have to confess, I will. Well, do it now.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Get it over with. And during all this, though, she
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: was breaking down, stating that she only did these murders
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: in self-defense.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I've never done this. I've never done this. Because I
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: was drunk as hell. And I was a professional murderer.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: The men that would pick up and take her for
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: rides would abuse her and beat her and sometimes even
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: grape her. And investigators just wanted more questions answered, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: they'd have to wait until the trial to get the
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: whole picture. But at this point, they did know that
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Eileen Wuornos was the murderer. And the trial would be
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: chock full of information and Wuornos threw everything out onto
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the table. And during the trial in January 1992, it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: went case by case of all the murders she committed
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and the men that she harmed. And she said she
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: did it to support her lover and stole in order
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to support her lifestyle.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Not a good excuse.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: And police would be directed to a storage shed where
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: they would find clothing, watches, toolboxes, and more.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: And supposedly, These all belonged to her victims.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: And the narrative that it was purely self-defense was then questioned.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Why would someone protect themselves and then steal the belongings
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: of the person that they killed? So Eileen obviously didn't
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: want to go to trial for a bunch of murders,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: but she also just wanted to get it over with, which...
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: was evident in her confession. But despite all this, the
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: trials would go on. And the trial was for the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: first murder, which would set the narrative for the pattern
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: of the other murders. And the prosecution introduced her patterns
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: with the other murders and how she knew what she
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: was doing and she knew that it was wrong murdering
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: multiple men.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: For their possessions.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: But what she didn't expect is that she did this
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: all for love, basically. And that her lover, her lover,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: would hit the stand to criticize and completely abandon her,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: putting everything on her.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: And it's just brutal. It's brutal.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: We were sitting on the floor watching TV and she
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: just come out and said, I have something to tell you.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: And I asked her what?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: And she said that she had shot and killed a
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: man that day.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And reportedly during the whole trial, she didn't even look
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: at Eileen. She completely avoided eye contact, stated her story
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and just walked out without looking at Eileen. And on
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: January 27th, 1992, Eileen Wuornos was convicted of first degree
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: murder and sentenced to death. But Eileen's story would later
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: change on March of 1992 during her plea hearing. The
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: plea hearing was meant for the other murders specifically where
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: she pleaded no contest. She said all the killings were
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: not in fact for self-defense, but for financial gain or
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: even to eliminate the witnesses she robbed. And this plea
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: would just give her more death sentences, which I think
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: is kind of moot, a moot point at that point.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: She's gonna die anyway, you know, why give her multiple?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Doesn't really make sense.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: But they would just continue to add up as the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: trials went on, eventually reaching a total of six death sentences.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of death. She's not a damn cat.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: What the fu- But it was hard to know what
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to believe directly. Was it possible she was abused or
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: even graped by some of these men or even one
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: of these men?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: We won't know.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: But the defense in the first case tried to point
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that arrow in the direction of Richard Mallory, who actually
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: had a history of sociopathic tendencies as evident from correctional
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: facility documents. But no matter what, Eileen would be sentenced
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to death. And her life on death row was not
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: pretty according to her. Due to her isolation from others,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: her mental state was just horrendous. Being on death row,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you have limited contact, which in my personal opinion, was
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the opposite of what someone like her needed.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: This is what basically led her to her insanity in
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: the first place and crimes.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: She also claimed that during her time on death row
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: that prison workers would taint her food with.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Dirt, spit, and even urine.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: She even claimed to overhear them talking about pushing her
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: mental health over the line so she would commit sluerslide before.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: The execution to save time.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: And worse as well, she said that she heard them
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: talking about graping her before her execution, and the list
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: just goes on and on from strip searches to catcalling.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: She wasn't living hell before her execution again.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Allegedly. However, there was an upside for her.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Interviews would be conducted with her by a documentarian, Nick Broomfield.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And the film just went into depth about some of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the personal reasons.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Why she did what she did.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: And in an interview, she even stated that she honestly
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: did kill in self-defense and was so tired of being
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: on death row, she just wanted to And she would
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be on death row for about 10 years, so that's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a long time to suffer being locked up when you're
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: thinking you should just be dead. And her mental state
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: was just deteriorating as the days went by. In her
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: last days, she said her mind was being taken over
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: by radio waves and she was under a spell.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: They had the intercom on in the room and they
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: kept lying that it wasn't on and they were using
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: sonic pressure on my head since 1997. And every time
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I was trying to write something, and I think they
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: had some kind of eye in the cell, I'm not sure,
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: but every time I started writing something, it went up higher.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: So I'm thinking that probably had.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: The TV rigged.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: The TV or the mirror or something was rigged. They
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: got a huge satellite on the compound. After they put
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: the huge satellite on the compound, it could have been
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: either rigged to the TV set or the mirror or something,
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: because the electrician, when he put the mirror on the wall,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: he said, doesn't that look like a computer? The back
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: of it, and he stuck it to the wall.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: But the media just loved her, and not in a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: supporting way exactly, but more of an entertaining way. Almost
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: like she was a circus monkey that was being analyzed
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: in a cage. Which, in my opinion, is messed up. Like,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: if you murder someone, I think... you're a piece of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: shit and that's not right. But there's treating a human
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: like a human, especially in specific circumstances. But she would
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: eventually get her wish. From her original sentencing to death
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: on January 31st, 1992, she would finally be executed by
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: lethal injection on October 9th, 2002 at 46 years old.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And her death would just.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Spark more media attention with people questioning the fairness of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: humanity of the death sentence to allow someone to live
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: so much longer than they needed to suffer daily until
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: eventually being executed a decade later. And this also sparked
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: talks amongst the feminist community, acknowledging the mistreatment of female
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: inmates in prison systems due to her claims of.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Abuse while on death row.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And on the other side of the coin, people believed
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: she got off easy and didn't suffer enough. I was
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: glad she was gone.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: And someone said to me, well, don't you.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Feel bad because she was abused?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: And I said, No, I don't.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I said, everybody has been abused in their life. But
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: what was put into question all these years was how
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: much involvement her lover Tyria Moore had and how she
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: got off literally scot-free. And we know that during her confession,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: she admitted to doing all of this to please and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: fund her extravagant lifestyle. And by Tyria's own admission in court,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: she showed that she knew of the crimes committed because
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Eileen told her. And this has also sparked a split
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: amongst those who talk about this case, stating that Tyria
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: could have absolutely been directly involved. And in my opinion,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: if you know that shit's going on, call the po-po,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you know? Otherwise you're an accessory. Like, you know that
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: this is happening. You're guilty by association, basically. But the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: case of Eileen Wuornos is a very sad story of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: someone who was abused throughout her life, felt unloved, and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: went searching for it in all the wrong places. A
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: life of crime and drug abuse just led her on
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a path that she could not return from. And the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: loss of all of those lives just led to her
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: death penalty. And I think this story specifically raises questions
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: about how important mental health care really is. The fact
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: that someone could live their entire life abused and misused
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and just, just wronged in life and then end up
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: becoming a murderer and then treated the same. It's just all,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: it's all not good. Again, not excusing anyone for murder.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I think that's terrible. And I think there's other ways
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: around it, but when people aren't helped in life, it's,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it's hard for those people with those, those trauma blinders
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: on to, to see any, any other way out. Just overall, really,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: really sad, but I'd love to hear what you have
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to say about this whole case down below. I feel
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: for the families that lost these men. Do I agree
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: with what these men were doing?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: No.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Do I agree with what Eileen did? Absolutely not. Just unfortunate.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Just unfortunate. But let me know what else you guys
• 27:28
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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• 27:37
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• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Little guys, I've been eating them probably a little too much,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: but they're delicious, so. Uh, but until the next video,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I will see your beautiful face then.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Bye.