Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed on October 9, 2002, but was seen chatting and laughing during a documentary interview hours before her execution.
The woman dubbed America’s first female serial killer has given a chilling final interview for a documentary just before her execution.
Aileen Wuornos, 46, sounded chatty and laughed as she said she was “preparing” to die at the Florida State Penitentiary in Bradford County. Wuornos, a sex worker convicted of murdering seven men between 1989 and 1990, was arrested in 1991.
She claimed the killing was in self-defense and was given the nickname “Maiden of Death.” She was convicted of the murder of Richard Mallory in January 1992, and subsequently confessed to six more murders. She was convicted of six counts of murder and sentenced to death. She was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
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When she was found guilty, she showed no remorse and said, “I killed those people, I took something cold as ice, and they will do it again.” There’s no chance of keeping him alive,” he said. I’ll kill you again. I don’t like it crawling inside my body. ”
Hours before Wuornos was to be executed, she spoke with filmmaker Nick Bloomfield, who was filming a true crime documentary about her life, “Eileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer.” Chilling video from the interview of Wuornos looking happy as she laughs and chats with Bloomfield.
In the clip, she greets the filmmakers and tells them to check out the “new orange shirts” death row inmates usually wear. When Mr Bloomfield asked her how her life in prison was, she replied: “You’re fine here. You’re fine. But you have a problem because you have staff who don’t like you. So some of the staff don’t treat you right.”
Mr. Bloomfield then asked the serial killer if she had made any friends in prison, but she replied that she only spent time alone in her cell and that she had also stopped smoking so she didn’t have to go out. About her daily life she said: “I spend 24/7 in my cell, watching TV, reading the Bible, writing letters, sitting, thinking a lot, preparing, going back in time. This. Everything I’ve been through in my life, and now I’m preparing for death and crying all my tears.”
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She was then seen laughing and repeating that she wanted all her tears to come out because she didn’t want to cry in the execution chamber. The documentary was released in 2003, a year after the serial killer’s execution.
Wuornos refused his last meal before his execution, opting for black coffee instead. And while in her execution chamber, she smiled at her witnesses and showed no remorse for the murder she was convicted of.
Her horrifying last words were: “I like to say I’m sailing with the rock, but like the Fourth of July, I’m coming back with Jesus. June 6th, like in the movies. Big mothership and all.” I’ll go back and come again. ” Her body was cremated and her ashes scattered beside a tree in Michigan.
During a 2004 interview, Bloomfield said that despite the horrific crimes she committed, she saw “incredible humanity” in the serial killer. “I think this anger grew inside her, and she was working as a prostitute. I think she was exposed to a lot on the streets, and this anger was bubbling up inside her. And in the end it exploded, with incredible violence, and that was her way of surviving.
“I think Eileen truly believed that she killed someone in self-defense. I don’t think a severely mentally ill person would be able to tell the difference between a life-threatening situation and a minor disagreement. I can’t say that.I didn’t agree with that.
“It made her angry and she started yelling, and I think that’s what caused these things to happen. And at the same time, when she wasn’t in an extreme mood, she didn’t have much faith in her. He had an incredible amount of humanity.”