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Fact or Fiction? "Monster" and the Crimes of Aileen Wuornos

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Aileen Wuornos is someone with whom most people are familiar. Various forms of media have taken her life story and used it for entertainment, but how much of it is fact and what is fiction? Today's episode, we're covering the life and crimes of Aileen, then comparing the information we know to be true to what was portrayed in the 2003 award-winning movie "Monster," directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci.

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    Sources we used for this episode:

    • "Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words" by Aileen Wuornos, Lisa Kester, Daphne Gottlieb, and Phyllis Chesler
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos?wprov=sfti1
    • https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos
    • https://capitalpunishmentincontext.org/cases/wuornos
    • https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aileen-Wuornos
    • https://www.oxygen.com/sites/oxygen/themes/custom/crime_amp/favicon.ico
    • https://www.wfla.com/news/crime/this-day-in-history-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-kills-first-victim-a-clearwater-man/
    • http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/wuornos805.htm
    • https://allthatsinteresting.com/aileen-wuornos
    • https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americas-first-female-serial-killer-strikes
    • https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/aileen-wuornos/
    • https://www.bustle.com/articles/126181-8-surprising-facts-about-notorious-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-that-will-haunt-your-dreams
    • https://thecinemaholic.com/aileen-wuornos-girlfriend/
    • https://www.mind.org.uk/media/7135/ptsd-and-complex-ptsd-2021-pdf-version.pdf
    • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
    • https://abcnews.go.com/2020/GiveMeABreak/story?id=124320&page=1
    • Monster (2003), directed by Patty Jenkins
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