1 00:00:26,042 --> 00:00:27,752 There are those that believe 2 00:00:27,834 --> 00:00:30,544 that when serial killers make their first kill, 3 00:00:30,626 --> 00:00:33,666 that opens the floodgates. 4 00:00:33,751 --> 00:00:35,081 Like an animal might or a wolf 5 00:00:35,167 --> 00:00:36,457 might when it's had a taste of blood, 6 00:00:36,542 --> 00:00:38,712 it's going to come back for it again. 7 00:00:40,792 --> 00:00:42,632 And in Aileen Wuornos' case, 8 00:00:42,709 --> 00:00:45,579 the ease in which she had gotten away with it, 9 00:00:45,667 --> 00:00:47,287 I think, reinforced her belief 10 00:00:47,375 --> 00:00:50,665 that this was an easier way of making money. 11 00:00:52,751 --> 00:00:54,541 Here, she could take everything. 12 00:01:17,876 --> 00:01:19,956 Welcome to "very scary people." 13 00:01:20,042 --> 00:01:21,502 I'm Donnie wahlberg. 14 00:01:21,584 --> 00:01:24,174 She was known as the "damsel of death," 15 00:01:24,250 --> 00:01:27,500 one of the few female serial killers in American history, 16 00:01:27,584 --> 00:01:29,134 Aileen Wuornos, 17 00:01:29,209 --> 00:01:33,579 a complex, misunderstood misfit with a hair-trigger temper, 18 00:01:33,667 --> 00:01:37,747 whose life and murder spree was portrayed in the 2003 film. 19 00:01:37,834 --> 00:01:40,754 "Monster" by charlize theron. 20 00:01:40,834 --> 00:01:42,794 But the true story of how and why 21 00:01:42,876 --> 00:01:46,076 this woman gunned down seven men is even more dramatic, 22 00:01:46,167 --> 00:01:51,207 compelling, and scary than the fictional film about her life. 23 00:01:51,292 --> 00:01:53,502 How did she become a vicious killer? 24 00:01:53,584 --> 00:01:55,174 Were the seeds of violence planted 25 00:01:55,250 --> 00:01:58,170 in her sad and unusually brutal childhood? 26 00:01:58,250 --> 00:02:01,210 And how did investigators finally catch her? 27 00:02:01,292 --> 00:02:04,292 Here is part 1 of "monster made." 28 00:02:12,292 --> 00:02:14,172 A serial killer tops our look at stories 29 00:02:14,250 --> 00:02:15,630 from around the country tonight... 30 00:02:15,709 --> 00:02:17,879 Aileen Wuornos, known as the "highway hooker" 31 00:02:17,959 --> 00:02:20,169 because that's where she picked up her victims, 32 00:02:20,250 --> 00:02:23,670 also known as the "damsel of death" for what she did to them. 33 00:02:35,792 --> 00:02:40,882 On the 4th of July, Aileen and tyria were on their way over 34 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:44,499 to Daytona beach to watch the fireworks. 35 00:02:44,584 --> 00:02:47,634 They were going through the ocala national forest, 36 00:02:47,709 --> 00:02:49,459 and tyria was driving. 37 00:02:49,542 --> 00:02:51,212 They had noticed a sign on the side of the road 38 00:02:51,292 --> 00:02:55,042 that indicated that there was a Indian reservation, 39 00:02:55,125 --> 00:02:57,575 so they took a little detour. 40 00:02:57,667 --> 00:02:59,627 As tyria starts to head back, 41 00:02:59,709 --> 00:03:01,709 she's driving a little bit too fast 42 00:03:01,792 --> 00:03:03,382 to make a curve in the road, 43 00:03:03,459 --> 00:03:07,129 and the car goes off the side of the road... 44 00:03:08,834 --> 00:03:12,964 ...turns onto its passenger side and slides. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,080 Comes to rest on its tires. 46 00:03:20,876 --> 00:03:22,956 Aileen knew the seriousness of the situation. 47 00:03:36,334 --> 00:03:39,334 She told tyria that they needed to leave immediately, 48 00:03:39,417 --> 00:03:44,127 hide the car, because this was a dead man's car. 49 00:03:44,209 --> 00:03:47,749 The accident that happened in Peter siems' car 50 00:03:47,834 --> 00:03:50,714 probably was an act of fate. 51 00:03:50,792 --> 00:03:52,792 Had it not been for the accident, 52 00:03:52,876 --> 00:03:56,286 I'm convinced we'd have other dead men. 53 00:03:56,375 --> 00:03:58,455 She could've gotten away with it. 54 00:04:12,083 --> 00:04:18,833 In 1989, Aileen Wuornos was making her living, 55 00:04:18,918 --> 00:04:20,248 such as it was, 56 00:04:20,334 --> 00:04:25,294 as a prostitute on interstate exits and entrances 57 00:04:25,375 --> 00:04:28,455 in central Florida. 58 00:04:28,542 --> 00:04:31,582 I done asked her, you know, why she had turned to prostitution. 59 00:04:31,667 --> 00:04:34,457 She was able to make a living otherwise. 60 00:04:34,542 --> 00:04:38,462 Her answer was, "it was more fun than working in a restaurant." 61 00:04:38,542 --> 00:04:43,252 She was in a relationship with tyria Moore. 62 00:04:43,334 --> 00:04:47,714 Aileen met tyria in one of the bars in the Daytona area, 63 00:04:47,792 --> 00:04:52,292 and Aileen developed this feeling 64 00:04:52,375 --> 00:04:54,455 that she was her soul mate. 65 00:04:54,542 --> 00:04:57,752 I believe that the relationship with Ty Moore and Aileen 66 00:04:57,834 --> 00:04:59,544 was extremely important to Aileen. 67 00:04:59,626 --> 00:05:03,706 This was the first person who was ever nice to her, 68 00:05:03,792 --> 00:05:06,212 and she falls in love. 69 00:05:06,292 --> 00:05:07,922 This is what she's always wanted. 70 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,920 This is what she always looked for. 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:15,290 - She loved you, didn't she? - Yes. 72 00:05:15,375 --> 00:05:18,325 She said she'd do anything for you, didn't she? 73 00:05:18,417 --> 00:05:19,957 Yes, she did. 74 00:05:20,042 --> 00:05:22,672 And she said this to you on numerous occasions? 75 00:05:22,751 --> 00:05:24,631 Yeah. 76 00:05:24,709 --> 00:05:27,669 She even said she'd die for you, didn't she, Ty? 77 00:05:27,751 --> 00:05:29,791 Yes, sir. 78 00:05:29,876 --> 00:05:31,286 They were living in a motel 79 00:05:31,375 --> 00:05:34,165 on the east coast of Florida near Daytona. 80 00:05:37,667 --> 00:05:39,627 Aileen Wuornos would use prostitution 81 00:05:39,709 --> 00:05:43,129 as a way to make enough money to give them a place to live 82 00:05:43,209 --> 00:05:45,129 and keep a roof over their head. 83 00:05:45,209 --> 00:05:47,919 Aileen always wanted to take care of tyria. 84 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,130 She always wanted to protect her, 85 00:05:50,209 --> 00:05:54,039 and if tyria was upset or depressed 86 00:05:54,125 --> 00:05:57,955 or they didn't have money to buy whatever they may have wanted, 87 00:05:58,042 --> 00:06:00,712 she would go out, and she would prostitute... 88 00:06:04,334 --> 00:06:10,584 ...make enough money to purchase whatever her and tyria wanted. 89 00:06:10,667 --> 00:06:12,877 Tyria and Aileen had been together 90 00:06:12,959 --> 00:06:15,289 for approximately 3 years. 91 00:06:17,250 --> 00:06:21,170 And then one night, in December of 1989, 92 00:06:21,250 --> 00:06:22,880 Wuornos collided with a person 93 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:25,499 that would change her life forever, 94 00:06:25,584 --> 00:06:29,084 an electronics repairman named Richard Mallory. 95 00:06:35,709 --> 00:06:38,209 Richard Mallory lived in clearwater, Florida, 96 00:06:38,292 --> 00:06:39,422 over on the west coast. 97 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,000 He was a guy that liked to party. 98 00:06:42,083 --> 00:06:43,583 He liked prostitutes. 99 00:06:43,667 --> 00:06:46,287 He would occasionally hire them, 100 00:06:46,375 --> 00:06:51,745 and on this weekend, he saw a female hitchhiking. 101 00:06:51,834 --> 00:06:54,084 He stopped. He picked her up. 102 00:06:54,167 --> 00:06:57,287 It was Aileen Wuornos. 103 00:06:57,375 --> 00:07:01,825 It started out apparently as a job like any other, 104 00:07:01,918 --> 00:07:06,418 but somewhere along the line, things went completely wrong. 105 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:09,960 It wasn't in my mind to go out and kill a guy. 106 00:07:10,042 --> 00:07:11,212 Something was different. 107 00:07:11,292 --> 00:07:12,542 Something changed. 108 00:07:12,626 --> 00:07:15,376 Something happened. Something in the incident 109 00:07:15,459 --> 00:07:19,169 with Richard Mallory, and she snapped, 110 00:07:19,250 --> 00:07:22,670 and she bloomed. 111 00:07:22,751 --> 00:07:24,831 She became a killer. 112 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:28,789 On the way to Daytona, they stopped and picked up 113 00:07:28,876 --> 00:07:32,826 some beer and drank as they went over there. 114 00:07:36,459 --> 00:07:38,829 It was dark out. 115 00:07:38,918 --> 00:07:42,538 They arrived to a place she's pointed out, 116 00:07:42,626 --> 00:07:47,206 which is in a secluded area north of Daytona beach, 117 00:07:47,292 --> 00:07:51,962 not on the beach, out in the palmettos and pines. 118 00:07:52,042 --> 00:07:54,382 They pulled into this dirt cutoff. 119 00:08:00,709 --> 00:08:10,629 At some point, something went wrong, and Aileen killed him. 120 00:08:10,709 --> 00:08:13,129 Aileen shot him four times. 121 00:08:25,167 --> 00:08:27,457 I had no choice. 122 00:08:27,542 --> 00:08:29,382 I didn't have a chance to stop the clock, say, 123 00:08:29,459 --> 00:08:31,039 "shoot him in the leg. Shoot him in the foot. 124 00:08:31,125 --> 00:08:34,325 Shoot him in the arm," and I'm not the greatest aimer. 125 00:08:34,417 --> 00:08:36,877 I did whatever I had to do at the quickest moment 126 00:08:36,959 --> 00:08:40,669 and out just fast as possible. 127 00:08:40,751 --> 00:08:44,501 Richard Mallory was shot with a .22-caliber pistol. 128 00:08:44,584 --> 00:08:48,924 It was obvious that he didn't die instantly. 129 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:51,420 You shoot someone with a .22-caliber bullet, 130 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:54,500 and unless you take out the brain, 131 00:08:54,584 --> 00:08:57,794 it's going to take a while. It's like a large ice pick. 132 00:08:57,876 --> 00:09:01,036 It's a slow, painful, terrifying death 133 00:09:01,125 --> 00:09:02,415 because you know you're dying, 134 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:04,830 and there's nothing you can do about it. 135 00:09:04,918 --> 00:09:07,578 We know that she covered him with an old rug, 136 00:09:07,667 --> 00:09:11,667 and she left him there to rot, but did she watch him die? 137 00:09:11,751 --> 00:09:15,381 Did she stand over him and taunt him? 138 00:09:15,459 --> 00:09:19,329 We don't know. We'll never know that. 139 00:09:19,417 --> 00:09:21,037 After shooting Mr. Mallory, 140 00:09:21,125 --> 00:09:24,165 Aileen took his car and all his belongings. 141 00:09:24,250 --> 00:09:28,580 She takes a radar detector, the camera and later pawns them. 142 00:09:28,667 --> 00:09:31,627 She drove back to the motel that tyria was at, 143 00:09:31,709 --> 00:09:37,169 and she actually told tyria what she had done. 144 00:09:37,250 --> 00:09:39,880 We were sitting on the floor watching TV, 145 00:09:39,959 --> 00:09:43,579 and she just come out and said, "I have something to tell you," 146 00:09:43,667 --> 00:09:46,747 and I ask her what, and she said that she had shot 147 00:09:46,834 --> 00:09:48,924 and killed a man that day. 148 00:09:50,584 --> 00:09:53,544 Richard Mallory's body was found by two fellows 149 00:09:53,626 --> 00:09:58,376 that were scrapping for metal in the woods. 150 00:09:58,459 --> 00:10:01,709 It was a normal day. My buddy came to pick me up, 151 00:10:01,792 --> 00:10:05,962 and we're going out scrap metaling 152 00:10:06,042 --> 00:10:08,922 and decided to come out here to this one trail. 153 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,210 It's right off the beaten path. 154 00:10:12,292 --> 00:10:14,252 When we came in, we seen buzzards out front. 155 00:10:14,334 --> 00:10:15,584 We didn't think nothing of it, 156 00:10:15,667 --> 00:10:18,707 just think it was a roadkill out by the road. 157 00:10:18,792 --> 00:10:21,382 Then we started smelling this bad smell, 158 00:10:21,459 --> 00:10:26,499 and then came up on this carpet. 159 00:10:26,584 --> 00:10:29,384 Looked down there and seen a hand sticking out of it. 160 00:10:29,459 --> 00:10:33,539 We just froze for a minute and then started running, 161 00:10:33,626 --> 00:10:36,746 almost tripped on each other getting out of there. 162 00:10:36,834 --> 00:10:40,464 Sure enough, it's Mallory's corpse. 163 00:10:40,542 --> 00:10:42,132 They report that. 164 00:10:42,209 --> 00:10:45,289 I believe he was faceup when, when he was found. 165 00:10:45,375 --> 00:10:49,245 His pants and the zipper, I believe, were open. 166 00:10:49,334 --> 00:10:50,754 After they find the body, 167 00:10:50,834 --> 00:10:53,924 the investigation is launched on Mallory's murder. 168 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,210 There was nothing special 169 00:10:55,292 --> 00:10:57,632 about Mr. Mallory's death at the time. 170 00:10:57,709 --> 00:11:01,629 This was, unfortunately, just a normal homicide. 171 00:11:01,709 --> 00:11:04,129 Police at that time had no idea 172 00:11:04,209 --> 00:11:05,669 what they were getting involved in. 173 00:11:05,751 --> 00:11:07,791 Don't have any clue that they're dealing 174 00:11:07,876 --> 00:11:11,126 with a serial killer, no. None. 175 00:11:15,083 --> 00:11:18,083 When she came back, she became the serial killer. 176 00:11:18,167 --> 00:11:19,577 She became the predator. 177 00:11:19,667 --> 00:11:23,377 She had a whole pack that she had put together. 178 00:11:43,417 --> 00:11:48,037 There was about a 6-month hiatus between Richard Mallory's death 179 00:11:48,125 --> 00:11:50,995 and the second victim, David Spears. 180 00:11:51,083 --> 00:11:54,463 If you ever looked at the definition of a serial killer 181 00:11:54,542 --> 00:11:56,172 the FBI puts out, 182 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:58,580 it says they have a brief cooling-off period, 183 00:11:58,667 --> 00:12:00,287 and this would be hers. 184 00:12:00,375 --> 00:12:03,825 Now when she came back, she became the serial killer. 185 00:12:03,918 --> 00:12:05,878 She became the predator. 186 00:12:05,959 --> 00:12:08,289 Victim number two was David Spears. 187 00:12:08,375 --> 00:12:11,075 He was a hard worker. He was in construction. 188 00:12:11,167 --> 00:12:12,577 He was divorced from his wife, 189 00:12:12,667 --> 00:12:14,997 but they were talking about getting back together. 190 00:12:15,083 --> 00:12:16,633 He was going to head over to Orlando 191 00:12:16,709 --> 00:12:23,999 and spend the weekend with her, but he never arrived. 192 00:12:24,083 --> 00:12:26,503 Our deputies were on interstate 75, 193 00:12:26,584 --> 00:12:28,544 and they'd come upon his pickup truck 194 00:12:28,626 --> 00:12:31,376 that was disabled on the side of the road. 195 00:12:31,459 --> 00:12:35,249 It was abandoned. There was nobody around it. 196 00:12:35,334 --> 00:12:36,544 Within a couple of days, 197 00:12:36,626 --> 00:12:39,956 his body was found in citrus county, 198 00:12:40,042 --> 00:12:42,712 and this victim had been shot six times. 199 00:12:42,792 --> 00:12:46,542 When he was found, he was naked on the ground. 200 00:12:50,459 --> 00:12:53,289 Now she would kill much more frequently. 201 00:12:53,375 --> 00:12:57,825 She would be shooting more rounds into the individuals, 202 00:12:57,918 --> 00:13:01,378 - and the time was compressing. - It was very rapid. 203 00:13:01,459 --> 00:13:03,169 From the second murder to the third murder, 204 00:13:03,250 --> 00:13:05,210 it was only a couple of days. 205 00:13:05,292 --> 00:13:08,752 The third victim was a guy by the name of Charles carskaddon. 206 00:13:08,834 --> 00:13:11,674 He was a rodeo worker from the tampa area. 207 00:13:11,751 --> 00:13:15,171 He was driving back to Florida. He never arrived. 208 00:13:15,250 --> 00:13:18,580 In carskaddon's case, he was refusing to pay her, 209 00:13:18,667 --> 00:13:22,327 according to her, and that escalated, 210 00:13:22,417 --> 00:13:27,457 and he ended up getting nine bullets for that. 211 00:13:29,417 --> 00:13:32,077 Most killers will tell you there's 212 00:13:32,167 --> 00:13:35,247 a certain amount of pleasure and excitement 213 00:13:35,334 --> 00:13:38,294 in killing a human being. 214 00:13:38,375 --> 00:13:41,625 Instead of being repulsed, they're fueled. 215 00:13:41,709 --> 00:13:46,459 I think that when Aileen killed Richard, rage had come out, 216 00:13:46,542 --> 00:13:49,292 and I think as the other murders progressed, 217 00:13:49,375 --> 00:13:52,375 the rage got more and more and more, 218 00:13:52,459 --> 00:13:58,539 in some cases, brutally, emptying her gun in their chest. 219 00:13:58,626 --> 00:14:04,126 One victim, six bullets, another victim, nine bullets. 220 00:14:04,209 --> 00:14:06,459 That's not just an ordinary murder. 221 00:14:06,542 --> 00:14:09,002 That's a brutal killing. 222 00:14:09,083 --> 00:14:11,543 Now one of the unique parts of this case 223 00:14:11,626 --> 00:14:15,456 was that she had a specific m.0. 224 00:14:15,542 --> 00:14:18,632 She had a whole act that she had put together, 225 00:14:18,709 --> 00:14:21,079 so she would be out there in her shorts, 226 00:14:21,167 --> 00:14:25,457 and she would hitch a ride, and once in, 227 00:14:25,542 --> 00:14:27,962 she would start with a story about how she needed to go 228 00:14:28,042 --> 00:14:33,042 to wherever this person looked to be going 229 00:14:33,125 --> 00:14:35,455 and that she needed to get money 230 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:38,712 and wanted to know if you could help me out. 231 00:14:38,792 --> 00:14:41,752 And if they were interested, fine, but if they weren't, 232 00:14:41,834 --> 00:14:44,714 I'd just get out the next exit and try again. 233 00:14:44,792 --> 00:14:47,672 She didn't kill everyone that picked her up. 234 00:14:47,751 --> 00:14:50,211 It's typical of serial killers. 235 00:14:50,292 --> 00:14:52,042 There will be several opportunities, 236 00:14:52,125 --> 00:14:55,035 and they'll pass them up for some reason, 237 00:14:55,125 --> 00:14:57,035 and then they'll strike again. 238 00:14:57,125 --> 00:14:59,535 That's a hell of a lot of men I went through 239 00:14:59,626 --> 00:15:03,876 before the next jerk came along, and I used protection. 240 00:15:03,959 --> 00:15:09,289 I think the most surprising aspect of Aileen Wuornos 241 00:15:09,375 --> 00:15:11,955 was how people warmed up to her. 242 00:15:12,042 --> 00:15:14,882 They had no idea what was going on inside her head. 243 00:15:14,959 --> 00:15:17,379 Obviously if they did, they wouldn't have picked her up. 244 00:15:17,459 --> 00:15:20,539 And that was the last ride they ever took. 245 00:15:20,626 --> 00:15:22,376 We believe that the pattern would be that 246 00:15:22,459 --> 00:15:25,039 she was either posing for prostitution, 247 00:15:25,125 --> 00:15:28,455 or she would tell some of the people she needed a ride, 248 00:15:28,542 --> 00:15:29,832 she had been stranded. 249 00:15:29,918 --> 00:15:31,378 Aileen Wuornos told stories 250 00:15:31,459 --> 00:15:34,329 about how she had two children in south Florida, 251 00:15:34,417 --> 00:15:36,627 and that she needed a way to get down there 252 00:15:36,709 --> 00:15:39,919 and if perhaps somebody could help her out. 253 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:43,500 "If you help me out, I can help you out." 254 00:15:43,584 --> 00:15:48,464 She was commandeering the vehicle at gunpoint, 255 00:15:48,542 --> 00:15:51,922 or the man was willingly going into a secluded area 256 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,670 to have sex with her. 257 00:15:53,751 --> 00:15:55,211 This was premeditated. 258 00:15:55,292 --> 00:15:58,832 This was thoughtful, and this is, in her own way, 259 00:15:58,918 --> 00:16:03,958 they speak of organized and disorganized serial killers. 260 00:16:04,042 --> 00:16:05,632 She was organized. 261 00:16:05,709 --> 00:16:08,249 And then there was either a robbery, 262 00:16:08,334 --> 00:16:11,004 or there was sexual activity and a robbery 263 00:16:11,083 --> 00:16:15,883 and a murder that went along with all of it. 264 00:16:15,959 --> 00:16:17,289 She actually drove away 265 00:16:17,375 --> 00:16:21,075 every victim's vehicle from the crime scene. 266 00:16:21,167 --> 00:16:25,207 And she and tyria Moore would use that car for a time 267 00:16:25,292 --> 00:16:28,712 until they saw fit to get rid of it. 268 00:16:28,792 --> 00:16:31,132 After robbing her victims, in some cases, 269 00:16:31,209 --> 00:16:35,629 she would take the possessions to a pawn shop and get cash. 270 00:16:35,709 --> 00:16:37,579 There were also additional items taken, 271 00:16:37,667 --> 00:16:41,827 and those would be her trophies and her souvenirs. 272 00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:45,378 Why would Aileen Wuornos murder men and Rob them? 273 00:16:45,459 --> 00:16:46,829 Some of it was, I believe, 274 00:16:46,918 --> 00:16:51,168 to feed her desire to have control over these men 275 00:16:51,250 --> 00:16:53,170 and to take everything that they had, 276 00:16:53,250 --> 00:16:55,330 their lives and their property, 277 00:16:55,417 --> 00:16:56,877 and I think that's evident by the fact 278 00:16:56,959 --> 00:16:58,539 that many of the things that she took 279 00:16:58,626 --> 00:17:02,956 were virtually valueless, that she took them as trophies. 280 00:17:03,042 --> 00:17:05,882 That is a Mark of a serial killer. 281 00:17:05,959 --> 00:17:11,629 She was a killer who robbed, not a robber who killed. 282 00:17:13,834 --> 00:17:15,294 And then things got worse. 283 00:17:15,375 --> 00:17:18,745 She had the upbringing that no one would volunteer for. 284 00:17:18,834 --> 00:17:21,584 This was a highly dysfunctional family. 285 00:17:21,667 --> 00:17:26,207 She didn't know that those were not her parents until later on. 286 00:17:45,417 --> 00:17:47,997 Aileen grew up in Troy, just like I did. 287 00:17:48,083 --> 00:17:50,633 We met when we were, like, 14, 15. 288 00:17:50,709 --> 00:17:51,919 We had a great time together. 289 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,170 She was a great friend. 290 00:17:54,250 --> 00:17:55,380 She was funny as hell. 291 00:17:55,459 --> 00:17:57,709 She loved joking, eating pizza, 292 00:17:57,792 --> 00:18:00,542 playing pool, and stuff like that. 293 00:18:00,626 --> 00:18:04,376 Aileen's upbringing is really a subject of some speculation. 294 00:18:04,459 --> 00:18:06,999 She certainly had the kind of upbringing 295 00:18:07,083 --> 00:18:10,213 that no one would volunteer for. 296 00:18:10,292 --> 00:18:12,832 Aileen Wuornos was from Troy, Michigan. 297 00:18:12,918 --> 00:18:15,038 She was born to a teenage mother, 298 00:18:15,125 --> 00:18:17,575 a woman who was a Finnish immigrant 299 00:18:17,667 --> 00:18:20,247 who married an American who was convicted 300 00:18:20,334 --> 00:18:23,834 and sent to prison before she even knew him. 301 00:18:23,918 --> 00:18:26,788 Her father was a convicted sex offender. 302 00:18:26,876 --> 00:18:31,456 And he would eventually die in prison from suicide, 303 00:18:31,542 --> 00:18:35,632 and her mother would later abandon her as a child. 304 00:18:35,709 --> 00:18:41,379 And so Aileen was left to be raised by her grandparents. 305 00:18:41,459 --> 00:18:42,959 Many people think of the grandparents 306 00:18:43,042 --> 00:18:46,292 as sort of a doting, caring figure in their lives, 307 00:18:46,375 --> 00:18:50,745 but in the case of Aileen Wuornos, that was not the case. 308 00:18:50,834 --> 00:18:54,084 This wasn't a loving extended family. 309 00:18:54,167 --> 00:18:58,037 This was a highly dysfunctional, angry family. 310 00:18:58,125 --> 00:19:03,165 She didn't know that those were not her parents until later on, 311 00:19:03,250 --> 00:19:06,080 and of course, it had a traumatic effect on her. 312 00:19:06,167 --> 00:19:09,127 And her grandfather was pretty strict with her. 313 00:19:09,209 --> 00:19:12,499 There are accounts of some pretty violent 314 00:19:12,584 --> 00:19:16,964 - or severe levels of discipline. - Nobody really did want her... 315 00:19:17,042 --> 00:19:18,962 Her mother, her father, her grandparents. 316 00:19:19,042 --> 00:19:21,582 And that may have played a significant role 317 00:19:21,667 --> 00:19:23,667 in her behavioral problems growing up 318 00:19:23,751 --> 00:19:25,211 and well into adulthood. 319 00:19:25,292 --> 00:19:27,752 A lot of antisocial behaviors... 320 00:19:27,834 --> 00:19:33,134 Stealing, arson, things of that nature, difficulty at school. 321 00:19:36,125 --> 00:19:40,955 At 12, she was raped, and she got pregnant. 322 00:19:41,042 --> 00:19:43,332 In those days, that shames the family, 323 00:19:43,417 --> 00:19:45,917 so they put her in an unweds' place down in. 324 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,210 - Detroit until she had the baby. - The baby is born, 325 00:19:50,292 --> 00:19:53,292 and the baby is immediately taken away from her. 326 00:19:53,375 --> 00:19:55,995 She put her son up for adoption, 327 00:19:56,083 --> 00:19:59,003 and to this day, we don't know what happened to him. 328 00:19:59,083 --> 00:20:00,713 And then things got worse. 329 00:20:00,792 --> 00:20:03,672 They all turned against her after she had that baby. 330 00:20:03,751 --> 00:20:05,001 It was horrible. 331 00:20:05,083 --> 00:20:08,293 Kids hated her, said she did that deliberate. 332 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,955 She just needed somebody to be a friend to her. 333 00:20:15,334 --> 00:20:19,334 She got into a series of problems with her grandfather, 334 00:20:19,417 --> 00:20:23,207 to the point where he threw her out of the house. 335 00:20:23,292 --> 00:20:25,292 She had nowhere to go. 336 00:20:25,375 --> 00:20:30,075 Aileen had to sleep in the cars outside, which really sucked 337 00:20:30,167 --> 00:20:34,377 because it was really cold, especially when winter come. 338 00:20:37,584 --> 00:20:39,584 She moved into some nearby woods, 339 00:20:39,667 --> 00:20:44,247 where she was able to learn to survive on her own outside. 340 00:20:44,334 --> 00:20:47,504 One of the ways she did that is through crime. 341 00:20:47,584 --> 00:20:50,794 So that's when she become a prostitute 342 00:20:50,876 --> 00:20:53,826 and living in the woods and all that. 343 00:20:53,918 --> 00:20:56,708 She would do her prostitution at night. 344 00:20:56,792 --> 00:20:59,462 Some of the guys would actually get hotels 345 00:20:59,542 --> 00:21:01,422 and let her stay there. 346 00:21:01,500 --> 00:21:04,500 When you look at the childhood of Aileen Wuornos, 347 00:21:04,584 --> 00:21:07,174 I don't think anyone can disagree with this. 348 00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:09,420 She just didn't get a fair shake. 349 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:11,330 You play the cards that you're dealt, 350 00:21:11,417 --> 00:21:13,247 and the cards that she was dealt, 351 00:21:13,334 --> 00:21:16,674 they were not like the average person growing up. 352 00:21:16,751 --> 00:21:19,041 She just drifted and lived on the streets 353 00:21:19,125 --> 00:21:22,625 until she finally ended up moving to Florida. 354 00:21:24,876 --> 00:21:27,126 At the age of 20, Aileen married a gentleman 355 00:21:27,209 --> 00:21:30,709 by the name of Lewis fell, who was 76 at the time, 356 00:21:30,792 --> 00:21:33,542 but about 9 weeks into the marriage, 357 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:35,076 they got into an altercation. 358 00:21:35,167 --> 00:21:38,377 And, in fact, he alleged that she beat him up 359 00:21:38,459 --> 00:21:39,879 with his own cane 360 00:21:39,959 --> 00:21:42,749 and had to get a restraining order against her. 361 00:21:42,834 --> 00:21:47,084 He filed for divorce, and that marriage was over. 362 00:21:47,167 --> 00:21:50,457 There's no question that she had some personality problems. 363 00:21:50,542 --> 00:21:53,252 She had a really tough time dealing with other people, 364 00:21:53,334 --> 00:21:57,714 being in the presence of others in normal circumstances. 365 00:21:57,792 --> 00:22:01,962 She was also known to have a very hot temper. 366 00:22:02,042 --> 00:22:03,422 As she grew into adulthood, 367 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:07,380 she was getting arrested for brawls in bars. 368 00:22:07,459 --> 00:22:10,079 She could go from a normal conversation 369 00:22:10,167 --> 00:22:13,287 to just a violent outrage at the flip of a switch, 370 00:22:13,375 --> 00:22:17,915 and there was no real telling when it was going to happen. 371 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,670 I think it kind of grew over time 372 00:22:20,751 --> 00:22:23,211 and maybe got a little bit worse. 373 00:22:23,292 --> 00:22:24,882 Aileen had a criminal history, 374 00:22:24,959 --> 00:22:29,959 which involved crimes from forgery of checks to battery, 375 00:22:30,042 --> 00:22:33,212 armed robbery, and weapons charges, 376 00:22:33,292 --> 00:22:35,792 so she was not a novice to the criminal system. 377 00:22:35,876 --> 00:22:39,916 She never really drew a lot of attention from the police 378 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,460 to herself throughout all these years. 379 00:22:42,542 --> 00:22:45,672 I never thought for a second she'd kill somebody, 380 00:22:45,751 --> 00:22:48,751 for crying out loud. 381 00:22:48,834 --> 00:22:52,174 Victim number four, the pivotal case. 382 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:56,040 He had planned on passing out some bibles along the way. 383 00:22:56,125 --> 00:23:00,035 He had the Bible, and she did that anyways. 384 00:23:00,125 --> 00:23:03,415 How cold can you possibly be? 385 00:23:13,792 --> 00:23:16,422 Welcome back to "very scary people." 386 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:18,250 By the summer of 1990, 387 00:23:18,334 --> 00:23:21,384 Aileen Wuornos had gunned down three men in cold blood 388 00:23:21,459 --> 00:23:24,789 but left very few clues on her trail of terror. 389 00:23:24,876 --> 00:23:26,456 She went on her homicidal rampage 390 00:23:26,542 --> 00:23:29,002 before DNA and fingerprint databases 391 00:23:29,083 --> 00:23:30,753 had been fully established, 392 00:23:30,834 --> 00:23:34,714 so Florida investigators had yet to link the cases. 393 00:23:34,792 --> 00:23:36,582 Before they did figure it out, 394 00:23:36,667 --> 00:23:39,327 Wuornos would slaughter four more people. 395 00:23:56,792 --> 00:23:59,962 Victim number four, which I call the pivotal case... 396 00:24:00,042 --> 00:24:03,332 Peter siems was a man living in Jupiter, Florida, 397 00:24:03,417 --> 00:24:05,417 and he was on his way to drive up to New Jersey 398 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:07,000 to visit his brother. 399 00:24:07,083 --> 00:24:10,213 He had planned on passing out some bibles along the way, 400 00:24:10,292 --> 00:24:12,082 so he had them in his trunk. 401 00:24:12,167 --> 00:24:16,537 He had stopped somewhere, we believe for gas, 402 00:24:16,626 --> 00:24:19,036 and that was where he ran into Aileen. 403 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,170 He had the Bible, and she did that anyways. 404 00:24:36,250 --> 00:24:39,960 How cold can you possibly be? 405 00:24:40,042 --> 00:24:43,212 That's as cold as you can possibly be. 406 00:24:46,125 --> 00:24:48,075 I think there were a number of factors 407 00:24:48,167 --> 00:24:50,167 that allowed her to get away with this. 408 00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:52,790 One of the biggest problems investigators faced... 409 00:24:52,876 --> 00:24:55,576 That she was killing people all over the place. 410 00:24:55,667 --> 00:24:58,287 The first three killings were in volusia county, 411 00:24:58,375 --> 00:25:00,495 citrus county and pasco county, 412 00:25:00,584 --> 00:25:04,004 and they all used different labs to do their ballistics testing. 413 00:25:04,083 --> 00:25:06,423 If they had all been sent to the same lab, 414 00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:09,130 they might have caught it a little bit earlier. 415 00:25:09,209 --> 00:25:11,289 The vehicles were also dispersed, 416 00:25:11,375 --> 00:25:14,125 and when she abandoned these vehicles, 417 00:25:14,209 --> 00:25:16,249 she would take off the license plate. 418 00:25:16,334 --> 00:25:19,674 She would remove any bumper stickers or anything 419 00:25:19,751 --> 00:25:22,041 that might identify the car. 420 00:25:22,125 --> 00:25:27,325 She would spray the dashboard and wheel and door handles. 421 00:25:27,417 --> 00:25:30,537 She'd thoroughly clean the car down. 422 00:25:30,626 --> 00:25:36,496 Aileen did a really good job of covering her tracks. 423 00:25:36,584 --> 00:25:39,334 They were things that all slowed down the process. 424 00:25:39,417 --> 00:25:43,497 It just took a long time to link these cases together. 425 00:25:48,459 --> 00:25:52,419 Victim number five was Troy burress. 426 00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,880 My dad, he was a really good person. 427 00:25:55,959 --> 00:25:58,999 He loved family. He loved pets. 428 00:25:59,083 --> 00:26:02,713 I mean, he had a really good personality. 429 00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:05,082 He was where he wanted to be in life, 430 00:26:05,167 --> 00:26:09,747 and he got a job at gilchrist sausage. 431 00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:14,464 He traveled different places, made stops for the company. 432 00:26:14,542 --> 00:26:17,172 He was all set to retire. 433 00:26:17,250 --> 00:26:19,540 Usually after his routes, he would go home. 434 00:26:19,626 --> 00:26:23,076 That night, he was supposed to be at my house. 435 00:26:23,167 --> 00:26:24,997 He never made it. 436 00:26:25,083 --> 00:26:28,923 Mr. Burress had been out making deliveries for his company, 437 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,250 and somewhere around Seville, Florida, on his way back in, 438 00:26:32,334 --> 00:26:35,634 in the afternoon, he disappeared. 439 00:26:35,709 --> 00:26:37,039 I was petrified. 440 00:26:37,125 --> 00:26:40,165 Nobody knows where he's at or who he's with. 441 00:26:40,250 --> 00:26:42,290 It just wasn't like him to, 442 00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:44,995 you know, just disappear like that. 443 00:26:48,834 --> 00:26:52,214 Aileen had somehow encountered him 444 00:26:52,292 --> 00:26:53,712 and got a ride from him, 445 00:26:53,792 --> 00:26:59,462 and he gave it to her, not looking for sex at all. 446 00:26:59,542 --> 00:27:03,752 Do you know why this woman targeted your brother? 447 00:27:03,834 --> 00:27:08,424 I think because he was a really friendly man 448 00:27:08,500 --> 00:27:11,580 because he did work in sales a lot. 449 00:27:11,667 --> 00:27:13,247 He liked people, and he would... 450 00:27:13,334 --> 00:27:16,384 He loved to talk to his... almost anyone. 451 00:27:16,459 --> 00:27:18,579 And didn't you caution him just that day 452 00:27:18,667 --> 00:27:20,537 - or the day before to... - The day before. 453 00:27:20,626 --> 00:27:22,166 ...not to pick up hitchhikers? 454 00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:26,710 And I said, "well, you know, you used to pick up hitchhikers. 455 00:27:26,792 --> 00:27:28,962 You can't do that anymore. It's too dangerous." 456 00:27:29,042 --> 00:27:32,332 He said, "oh, I know, but I hate to pass someone up 457 00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:34,827 if they need a ride." 458 00:27:34,918 --> 00:27:38,378 He always said he would always want his girls 459 00:27:38,459 --> 00:27:40,539 to have help if they needed it. 460 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:43,036 He was that kind of man. 461 00:27:48,584 --> 00:27:53,504 I went up to ocala, and we looked on his routes, 462 00:27:53,584 --> 00:27:56,134 you know, the roads that he drove, 463 00:27:56,209 --> 00:28:01,169 and it was 4 days before we found him, 464 00:28:01,250 --> 00:28:03,960 and his body was deteriorating. 465 00:28:04,042 --> 00:28:07,212 His body was found in the ocala national forest. 466 00:28:07,292 --> 00:28:10,632 Right there by the pine tree to your left. 467 00:28:10,709 --> 00:28:15,329 I was devastated, the fact that I couldn't talk to him anymore. 468 00:28:15,417 --> 00:28:17,417 I couldn't see him anymore. 469 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:19,080 I couldn't call him. 470 00:28:19,167 --> 00:28:21,457 To this day, I have a hard time. 471 00:28:21,542 --> 00:28:26,132 My dad was 50 years old when he was taken. 472 00:28:26,209 --> 00:28:31,459 He was happy, and then his life was taken in a horrible, 473 00:28:31,542 --> 00:28:33,422 mean, evil way. 474 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:38,420 He had two children and six grandchildren. 475 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,830 He missed them growing up. 476 00:28:40,918 --> 00:28:44,038 This was a case that we would kind of tie things 477 00:28:44,125 --> 00:28:46,375 together with other departments 478 00:28:46,459 --> 00:28:48,129 because as we were investigating 479 00:28:48,209 --> 00:28:50,129 the death of Mr. Burress, we found 480 00:28:50,209 --> 00:28:52,419 that there were at least two other cases 481 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:55,210 involving a .22-caliber killing. 482 00:28:59,876 --> 00:29:03,286 We had a series of meetings at our headquarters. 483 00:29:03,375 --> 00:29:06,705 And there was a pattern emerging 484 00:29:06,792 --> 00:29:09,042 that individually they hadn't seen. 485 00:29:09,125 --> 00:29:12,075 There were some jaws that dropped and hit the floor. 486 00:29:31,792 --> 00:29:33,792 One of the things about serial killers... 487 00:29:33,876 --> 00:29:36,326 They're kind of, like, in a chrysalis, 488 00:29:36,417 --> 00:29:38,917 like a butterfly living in a little chrysalis, 489 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,330 and once they make the first murder, 490 00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:45,037 they carry something from it to every other murder. 491 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,000 A monthly bulletin came out from the Florida department 492 00:30:06,083 --> 00:30:08,293 of law enforcement, and in this bulletin, 493 00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:12,125 it had other counties had unsolved homicides, 494 00:30:12,209 --> 00:30:15,749 and it was there that the connection was made. 495 00:30:15,834 --> 00:30:19,884 Other counties had homicides where the crime scenes, 496 00:30:19,959 --> 00:30:21,459 the modus operandi, 497 00:30:21,542 --> 00:30:24,332 the victimology was very similar. 498 00:30:24,417 --> 00:30:26,877 There was a pattern emerging 499 00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:30,129 that individually they hadn't seen. 500 00:30:30,209 --> 00:30:31,419 It became obvious 501 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:36,130 that these were not random acts of violence. 502 00:30:36,209 --> 00:30:38,669 One of the bell-ringers in this whole case 503 00:30:38,751 --> 00:30:40,331 from an investigative point of view 504 00:30:40,417 --> 00:30:45,917 was the weapon used, which was a .22-caliber pistol, 505 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,130 and it raised a couple red flags by itself. 506 00:30:48,209 --> 00:30:49,579 In the homicides that I've worked, 507 00:30:49,667 --> 00:30:51,827 it was typically a larger-caliber handgun 508 00:30:51,918 --> 00:30:56,078 like a .357 or a .45 or a 9-millimeter. 509 00:30:56,167 --> 00:31:01,037 The victims were all white, middle-aged, and older males. 510 00:31:01,125 --> 00:31:02,375 They were all traveling on 511 00:31:02,459 --> 00:31:04,499 or near major roadways in central Florida. 512 00:31:04,584 --> 00:31:10,334 Their bodies were found in secluded quasi-rural locations, 513 00:31:10,417 --> 00:31:12,457 and there was a pattern of overkill, 514 00:31:12,542 --> 00:31:18,042 meaning more bullets than necessary to kill the person. 515 00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:27,247 After they were killed, their vehicles were taken, 516 00:31:27,334 --> 00:31:29,294 and in each case, 517 00:31:29,375 --> 00:31:33,035 something was missing from the victim's vehicle. 518 00:31:35,918 --> 00:31:37,958 Several of the investigators start talking. 519 00:31:38,042 --> 00:31:39,752 They make some phone calls to each other, 520 00:31:39,834 --> 00:31:42,044 and then a task force is put together, 521 00:31:42,125 --> 00:31:44,125 and now things are on track 522 00:31:44,209 --> 00:31:47,749 for discovering who did these murders. 523 00:31:47,834 --> 00:31:52,384 We had a series of multiple meetings at our headquarters, 524 00:31:52,459 --> 00:31:55,129 and we had a lot of seasoned detectives 525 00:31:55,209 --> 00:31:58,709 that all came together from multiple counties, 526 00:31:58,792 --> 00:32:01,082 and we would share ideas, share information. 527 00:32:01,167 --> 00:32:04,247 We were looking for any connection that we could find. 528 00:32:04,334 --> 00:32:06,504 We didn't know whether it was one 529 00:32:06,584 --> 00:32:09,424 or more people operating together. 530 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:11,960 All we knew is, there was a pattern of killings going on, 531 00:32:12,042 --> 00:32:15,382 and we couldn't figure out how that was occurring. 532 00:32:15,459 --> 00:32:16,749 It was extremely frustrating, 533 00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:18,584 and I can remember sitting there thinking, 534 00:32:18,667 --> 00:32:20,667 "how come we're not coming up with anything?" 535 00:32:20,751 --> 00:32:22,961 She was able to get away with this for a long time 536 00:32:23,042 --> 00:32:24,542 because police initially weren't looking 537 00:32:24,626 --> 00:32:26,956 for somebody like Aileen Wuornos. 538 00:32:29,042 --> 00:32:34,172 Investigators in the first two think they're looking for a guy. 539 00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,330 We just didn't know. 540 00:32:39,167 --> 00:32:41,037 But there was one unique feature. 541 00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:45,495 Every car that we recovered had the driver's side seat 542 00:32:45,584 --> 00:32:48,084 in the forward-most position, 543 00:32:48,167 --> 00:32:51,537 and what we started thinking was because of that, 544 00:32:51,626 --> 00:32:55,416 maybe we're looking for somebody that's smaller in stature. 545 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:59,210 And police started to figure out that there had to be somebody 546 00:32:59,292 --> 00:33:01,332 that had the ability to get these victims 547 00:33:01,417 --> 00:33:04,957 close enough to them where that they could be vulnerable 548 00:33:05,042 --> 00:33:10,292 and be killed and robbed in these remote locations. 549 00:33:10,375 --> 00:33:12,125 Some of the victims were pretty large guys. 550 00:33:12,209 --> 00:33:14,669 Who would get in their personal, intimate space, 551 00:33:14,751 --> 00:33:17,631 who would they let their guard down for? 552 00:33:17,709 --> 00:33:19,999 It's easy today when you look back, saying, 553 00:33:20,083 --> 00:33:22,713 "hindsight, 20/20, it should have been common sense." 554 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:25,332 You know, but it's just that we have that stereotype, 555 00:33:25,417 --> 00:33:29,457 maybe, if you will, that was, you know, a barrier to us. 556 00:33:32,626 --> 00:33:36,036 Another tell in this pattern 557 00:33:36,125 --> 00:33:38,665 would be how the victims were found. 558 00:33:38,751 --> 00:33:40,501 Some of them were nude. 559 00:33:40,584 --> 00:33:45,924 There was perhaps some sexual component to these crimes. 560 00:33:47,709 --> 00:33:50,579 In one of the meetings, attending was dayle hinman, 561 00:33:50,667 --> 00:33:54,207 who is an FBI-trained criminal profiler. 562 00:33:54,292 --> 00:33:57,332 When we laid all the facts of these cases that we knew 563 00:33:57,417 --> 00:34:02,707 at that time on the table for dayle to analyze and review. 564 00:34:02,792 --> 00:34:05,712 She said, "from what I can see here, 565 00:34:05,792 --> 00:34:09,922 you're really looking at, most likely, a female." 566 00:34:11,584 --> 00:34:14,004 There were some jaws that dropped and hit the floor. 567 00:34:14,083 --> 00:34:16,463 It was, it was a "wow" moment. 568 00:34:16,542 --> 00:34:17,752 It really was. 569 00:34:17,834 --> 00:34:21,044 Now this started to take some shape into the fact 570 00:34:21,125 --> 00:34:22,415 that we could be looking for women. 571 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:23,710 We just didn't know where to look. 572 00:34:23,792 --> 00:34:25,212 We didn't know where to turn. 573 00:34:25,292 --> 00:34:28,082 The biggest break of the case came months earlier, 574 00:34:28,167 --> 00:34:31,077 back in July of 1990. 575 00:34:31,167 --> 00:34:34,127 We just didn't know it yet. 576 00:34:34,209 --> 00:34:37,539 Initially, Peter siems was a missing persons case. 577 00:34:37,626 --> 00:34:39,376 No luck sweeping out here this morning. 578 00:34:39,459 --> 00:34:42,919 A witness came forward and said that they saw two females 579 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,080 operating a car that wrecked. 580 00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:48,077 And that's when the whole dam started to break. 581 00:35:02,459 --> 00:35:06,209 Victim number six was Mr. Humphreys. 582 00:35:08,667 --> 00:35:11,747 Richard Humphreys was a retired 583 00:35:11,834 --> 00:35:15,044 military, highly decorated officer. 584 00:35:15,125 --> 00:35:17,285 He was the police chief in a small town. 585 00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:20,955 He'd served there, retired, and he'd moved to Florida 586 00:35:21,042 --> 00:35:25,672 and took a job with the state of Florida social services. 587 00:35:25,751 --> 00:35:28,251 And he was going out and doing home checks, 588 00:35:28,334 --> 00:35:31,084 and somewhere along the way, 589 00:35:31,167 --> 00:35:35,037 something happened to him on the way back to the office. 590 00:35:35,125 --> 00:35:37,825 He had stopped at a truck stop to get something to drink 591 00:35:37,918 --> 00:35:40,788 at the end of his work day. 592 00:35:40,876 --> 00:35:42,576 We were able to find on his body 593 00:35:42,667 --> 00:35:44,917 that there was a bruise on the upper torso, 594 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 and we identified this as a bruise 595 00:35:47,083 --> 00:35:49,713 from the barrel of her gun. 596 00:35:49,792 --> 00:35:52,832 It appeared that once he had purchased that soda, 597 00:35:52,918 --> 00:35:54,628 he got back in his car, 598 00:35:54,709 --> 00:35:57,209 and Aileen got in the passenger side 599 00:35:57,292 --> 00:36:01,252 and put the gun in his ribs and told him to start driving. 600 00:36:01,334 --> 00:36:03,714 That's a predator. That's her abducting him. 601 00:36:03,792 --> 00:36:05,132 They get off the interstate. 602 00:36:05,209 --> 00:36:07,669 They ended up at the end of a cul-de-sac, 603 00:36:07,751 --> 00:36:09,211 and that's where Mr. Humphreys 604 00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:16,382 had been shot multiple times and had been left to die. 605 00:36:16,459 --> 00:36:19,459 At the crime scene, you could see his pants pockets 606 00:36:19,542 --> 00:36:22,832 were pulled inside-out, which was clearly suggestive 607 00:36:22,918 --> 00:36:25,878 that the crime of robbery had also taken place. 608 00:36:25,959 --> 00:36:29,709 Some of this personal property was found about 4 weeks later 609 00:36:29,792 --> 00:36:31,882 in south lake county. 610 00:36:34,334 --> 00:36:37,504 The final victim was Walter jeno Antonio. 611 00:36:37,584 --> 00:36:39,294 He never arrived back home. 612 00:36:39,375 --> 00:36:42,625 His body was found in Dixie county. 613 00:36:42,709 --> 00:36:45,079 Walter was one of Aileen's tricks, 614 00:36:45,167 --> 00:36:49,707 and she had gotten him out in the woods, 615 00:36:49,792 --> 00:36:52,042 and he was stripped. 616 00:36:52,125 --> 00:36:56,875 He had taken all his clothes off preparing to have sex, 617 00:36:56,959 --> 00:36:59,999 and he got killed. 618 00:37:03,542 --> 00:37:08,082 And he was just left on his hands and knees naked 619 00:37:08,167 --> 00:37:10,667 in front of an old oak tree. 620 00:37:12,584 --> 00:37:15,334 She set up a theatre, a scenario. 621 00:37:15,417 --> 00:37:20,037 If you enter into that scenario, then you could die. 622 00:37:20,125 --> 00:37:22,125 This ended up with seven people dead. 623 00:37:22,209 --> 00:37:26,169 Well, why would she do it? 624 00:37:26,250 --> 00:37:28,330 Pure evil. 625 00:37:32,125 --> 00:37:34,995 By the fall of 1990, 626 00:37:35,083 --> 00:37:37,793 we had these cases that we were reviewing, 627 00:37:37,876 --> 00:37:42,376 and we were pretty confident, based upon a number of issues, 628 00:37:42,459 --> 00:37:44,539 that these cases were, in fact, related. 629 00:37:44,626 --> 00:37:47,456 The big thing was, "who was committing the murders?" 630 00:37:47,542 --> 00:37:50,712 They were needing a break, and they didn't realize 631 00:37:50,792 --> 00:37:54,962 that the break had already happened back in July. 632 00:37:55,042 --> 00:37:59,752 July of 1990, we had this case involving Peter siems. 633 00:37:59,834 --> 00:38:03,214 Initially, Peter siems was a missing persons case, 634 00:38:03,292 --> 00:38:04,582 not a murder case, 635 00:38:04,667 --> 00:38:07,577 and in fact, they never did recover his body. 636 00:38:07,667 --> 00:38:09,327 No luck since we've been out here this morning. 637 00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:12,917 But the investigators realized there's some similarities 638 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,080 between Peter siems' and the rest of the cases. 639 00:38:16,167 --> 00:38:18,287 They have no body, but they have a car 640 00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:20,495 and a car that had been crashed, 641 00:38:20,584 --> 00:38:22,424 and there were witnesses to the crash 642 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:25,130 who saw two women leaving the scene. 643 00:38:25,209 --> 00:38:27,919 A witness came forward and said that they saw two females 644 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,080 in orange Springs area operating a car that wrecked. 645 00:38:34,834 --> 00:38:38,584 So the witnesses see this car crash, 646 00:38:38,667 --> 00:38:41,577 and two women get out yelling at each other. 647 00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:44,667 One of them looks like she's injured. 648 00:38:44,751 --> 00:38:47,461 Instead of accepting help and asking 649 00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:50,542 for the police or an ambulance, 650 00:38:50,626 --> 00:38:53,786 they rushed away in a suspicious fashion. 651 00:38:53,876 --> 00:38:56,666 The detective had the foresight to go ahead and interview 652 00:38:56,751 --> 00:39:01,791 the witnesses then sit down with our composite artist... 653 00:39:04,876 --> 00:39:09,826 ...and two composites were generated. 654 00:39:09,918 --> 00:39:13,958 That was how we ultimately put things together. 655 00:39:14,042 --> 00:39:16,002 A lot of time, just good old-fashioned cop 656 00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,253 instinct that you go with. 657 00:39:18,334 --> 00:39:20,004 Them being in Peter siems' car, 658 00:39:20,083 --> 00:39:21,583 where their little drunken afternoon 659 00:39:21,667 --> 00:39:25,417 out of driving led to the biggest break in the case 660 00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,750 of starting to figure out who it was that was behind 661 00:39:28,834 --> 00:39:30,794 the .22-caliber gun. 662 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:41,130 So the group now has a picture related to the siems case 663 00:39:41,209 --> 00:39:44,379 that might be the person who's doing all of this. 664 00:39:48,083 --> 00:39:51,173 As we were investigating the death of Mr. Humphreys, 665 00:39:51,250 --> 00:39:54,040 we found a location that he had stopped at, 666 00:39:54,125 --> 00:39:56,125 and we took a chance. 667 00:39:56,209 --> 00:39:59,959 We had brought the composites from the missing persons 668 00:40:00,042 --> 00:40:01,462 case involving Peter siems. 669 00:40:01,542 --> 00:40:04,962 We showed them to the clerk at the convenience store, 670 00:40:05,042 --> 00:40:09,082 and she said that there were a couple of girls in there 671 00:40:09,167 --> 00:40:12,287 that resembled the composites that we had. 672 00:40:12,375 --> 00:40:14,535 All of a sudden, they had two suspects, 673 00:40:14,626 --> 00:40:16,376 and they could put that out to the public 674 00:40:16,459 --> 00:40:18,079 and get help and find them. 675 00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:20,707 That was a big turning point. 676 00:40:20,792 --> 00:40:23,922 We made the decision, "we're going to have to go public." 677 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,420 "So let's put it out there." 678 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:29,710 And that's when the whole dam started to break. 679 00:40:29,792 --> 00:40:32,422 "The following described suspects may be responsible 680 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,880 for as many as 12 murders in Florida and Georgia." 681 00:40:35,959 --> 00:40:37,879 Went immediately to the press, 682 00:40:37,959 --> 00:40:41,709 and all over the state of Florida and elsewhere. 683 00:40:41,792 --> 00:40:44,002 We had composites on the news 684 00:40:44,083 --> 00:40:46,253 and in the papers of two females. 685 00:40:46,334 --> 00:40:48,834 There was literally a feeding frenzy. 686 00:40:48,918 --> 00:40:50,918 This was a huge deal because there had never been 687 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,540 a female serial killer. 688 00:40:52,626 --> 00:40:54,666 The tall blonde, suspect number one, 689 00:40:54,751 --> 00:40:58,961 is most vocal, a white female between 20 and 40 years of age 690 00:40:59,042 --> 00:41:01,672 between 5-foot-8 and 5-11. 691 00:41:01,751 --> 00:41:05,711 A woman killing middle-aged white men with a gun, 692 00:41:05,792 --> 00:41:09,712 - that gets people excited. - We started to get tips. 693 00:41:09,792 --> 00:41:11,672 She's well-built, a big girl. 694 00:41:11,751 --> 00:41:14,171 But the problem was, they didn't know where she was. 695 00:41:14,250 --> 00:41:16,080 She has straight blonde hair. 696 00:41:16,167 --> 00:41:18,827 How do you get this person off the street 697 00:41:18,918 --> 00:41:21,038 before they kill again? 698 00:41:23,959 --> 00:41:26,919 What happened at this point is, we needed a miracle. 699 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,380 - They had her in sight. - I wasn't born bad. 700 00:41:30,459 --> 00:41:32,419 You guys got it, see, I'm trying to tell you, man, 701 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:36,040 they lied. They lied so bad to you all. 702 00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:45,000 Investigators took a big risk in that fall of 1990. 703 00:41:45,083 --> 00:41:47,333 They believed the two women in the composite drawings 704 00:41:47,417 --> 00:41:49,957 were somehow connected to the serial killings, 705 00:41:50,042 --> 00:41:51,582 but they had no physical evidence, 706 00:41:51,667 --> 00:41:54,577 and they had no idea who these women were. 707 00:41:54,667 --> 00:41:57,747 Ultimately, it would take some old-fashioned police work 708 00:41:57,834 --> 00:42:01,794 and a lover's betrayal to bring this vicious killer down. 709 00:42:01,876 --> 00:42:04,826 The unbelievable story of how Aileen Wuornos was captured, 710 00:42:04,918 --> 00:42:08,168 next time, on part 2 of "monster made." 711 00:42:08,250 --> 00:42:11,000 Thanks for watching "very scary people." 712 00:42:11,083 --> 00:42:13,173 Goodnight.