The latest instalment of Ryan Murphy’s Monster true crime anthology focuses on Lizzie Borden, who was acquitted of the 1892 murders of her father and stepmother.
Aileen is shown to be fascinated with Lizzie’s story, and in one scene she gets her girlfriend Shelby (Jessie Lee) to read a book on Lizzie’s life. Aileen is also shown to be sympathetic towards Lizzie, believing that the misogynistic treatment Lizzie suffered in her lifetime was similar to what Aileen felt in her own.
"It very quickly became that the story we were telling was about female rage," he explained. "Then we were able to develop this triptych of Elizabeth Bathory, Aileen Wuornos and Lizzie Borden, which kept the show from seeming like a stuffy, diorama piece by going through these time periods of women who were each aware of the next. To have those three stories talk to one another made it feel much more contemporary and of the moment."
Read on to find out more about the real Aileen Wuornos and why she is featured in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.
What is the true story of Aileen Wuornos, who appears in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story?
Wuornos was born in Rochester, Michigan, in 1956. Her mother Diane was just 16 at the time and had already given birth to a son, Keith, the year before, with her husband, Leo Pittman. The couple divorced before Aileen was born, and she never met her father, who was imprisoned in 1967 for the kidnapping and rape of a seven-year-old girl. He died by suicide while incarcerated in 1969.
Over the next few years, Wuornos was arrested for various crimes including disorderly conduct, firing a pistol from a moving vehicle, armed robbery and assault. She briefly married 69-year-old Lewis Gratz Fell when she was 20, but the marriage was annulled after nine weeks.
View Green Video on the source websiteOver the next 12 months, Aileen killed six more men in Florida. They were David Spears, Charles Carskaddon, Peter Siems, Troy Burress, Charles Humphreys and Walter Antonio.
On 9 January 1991, Wuornos was arrested at a biker bar in Volusia County, Florida. Police asked her girlfriend, Tyria Moore, to help gain a confession from Aileen in return for immunity, and following several phone calls between the two women, monitored by police, Aileen Wuornos confessed to the murders.
Did Aileen Wuornos go to jail?
In Nick Broomfield’s 2003 documentary, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, she claimed (when she believed the cameras were turned off) that the murders were self-defence but said she had later recanted this to the police because she did not want to spend any more time on death row, and wanted to be executed.
Her story was later retold in the drama movie Monster, starring Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for her performance as Aileen.
Was Aileen Wuornos fascinated by the Lizzie Borden story in real life?
In the series it is shown that Aileen and her girlfriend Shelby visited the Borden house in Fall River, and stayed there for the night, but there is no evidence that this happened in real life, and it appears to be a fictionalised storyline for the sake of the Netflix drama.
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