Review of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) by Fong K — 18 May 2017

For those who watched Nick Broomfield's first documentary on Wuornos, this is more or less similar territory with more emphasis on one on one chats with the notorious serial killer. On the one hand, it could be argued quite reasonably that Wuornos was a victim of the environment in which she grew up and that would in some way provide justification for murder but the fact that she committed several murders after that certainly did not help her cause (especially in the eyes of the American Judicial System).

Her constant raving against the justice system rings a bit hollow in light of the gratuitous nature of her crimes but she remains vehement until her death from lethal injection that she is more or less a pawn in a corrupt system.