Overview
- Released Oct. 30, the documentary from BBC Studios and NBC News Studios quickly overtook Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite atop U.S. Netflix streaming charts, according to Collider.
- Director Emily Turner includes archival reporting by Michele Gillen and previously unseen interviews in which Wuornos discusses her crimes, trauma and media portrayal.
- Reporting tied to the film reiterates that Wuornos killed seven men across Florida in 1989–1990, was convicted of six murders and was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
- Investigators linked her to multiple victims through fingerprints, a palm print on an abandoned car and pawned belongings, and she confessed during a recorded call after Moore received immunity.
- The renewed coverage highlights her contradictory accounts of motive and notes that Peter Siems’ body was never found, resulting in no charge in that presumed killing despite later confession.