Aileen Wuornos is often labeled America’s first female serial killer—but her story is far more complicated than that.

In this episode of Twisted and Mysterious, we follow Aileen’s life from a traumatic childhood to the murders of seven men along Florida’s highways. She claimed self-defense. Prosecutors called it calculated murder.

So what really happened?

This is a story about survival, violence, and the uncomfortable space where victim and perpetrator collide.

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