Overview
- People profiles the seven men Wuornos said she shot in Florida in 1989–1990 as renewed attention follows Netflix’s Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Oct. 30.
- Investigators tied Wuornos to the crimes through forensic evidence, including a palm print found in a victim’s car, and through a recorded confession her ex-girlfriend Tyria Moore elicited for immunity in January 1991.
- Wuornos was convicted in the Richard Mallory case in January 1992, later pleaded no contest or guilty in five additional killings, received six death sentences, and was executed by lethal injection in 2002.
- Peter Siems’ body was never found, leaving no charge in his case despite a palm print on his abandoned car, an eyewitness account, and Wuornos’ later confession.
- Wuornos offered conflicting accounts over time, alternating between self-defense claims and admissions of killing and robbery, discrepancies revisited through archival footage featured in recent documentaries.