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Netflix Revisits Aileen Wuornos With Rare Death-Row Interview in New Documentary

The film spotlights the 1991 jail call that led to her confession, contextualizing her background of abuse.

Overview

  • Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers began streaming on Oct. 30 and features previously little-seen 1997 footage from Florida’s death row.
  • The documentary presents archival recordings of Wuornos telling Tyria Moore she would confess to keep her from trouble, as police had Moore call under an immunity deal.
  • Wuornos was convicted of six murders committed along Florida highways from 1989 to 1991 and was executed in 2002.
  • Coverage notes that Moore withdrew from public view after testifying and is now reported to live privately in Pennsylvania.
  • The film reexamines Wuornos’s self-defense narrative and reports that Richard Mallory’s prior attempted-rape conviction was not introduced at her first trial.