The woman who garnered the monikers the “Damsel of Death” and “Queen of Serial Killers” shared a chilling statement before she was executed for her crimes.
Aileen Wuornos rose to become arguably the US’ most notorious female serial killer ever after embarking on a murder spree that claimed the lives of no less than seven men.
A sex worker by trade, Wuornos’ string of morbid crimes played out in Florida, where she robbed and shot dead her victims, all male motorists between the ages of 40 and 65, before stealing their vehicles.
Starting in 1989, the killings all took place inside a 12-month period before Wuornos was arrested in Port Orange in 1991.
She ultimately confessed to her dark deeds, though claimed that she had only shot men who either raped her or attempted to.
Having been handed six death sentences upon being found guilty, Wuornos said in court: “I am as guilty as can be. I want the world to know I killed these men, as cold as ice. I’ve hated humans for a long time. I am a serial killer. I killed them in cold blood, real nasty.”
Confined to death row at Broward Correctional Institution in Florida while she awaited her execution, she regularly complained about the decision to delay her fate.
“There is no point in sparing me,” Wuornos said in July 2001. “It’s a waste of taxpayers’ money. I killed those men, robbed them. And I’d do it again, too.
“There’s no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I’d kill again. I have hate crawling through my system.”
Wuornos’ execution was eventually carried out via lethal injection on October 9, 2002. Prior to the sentence being carried out, the 46-year-old muttered her final statement, which was as follows:
“I would just like to say I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I’ll be back, I’ll be back.”
Critics of the death penalty argued that the somewhat perplexing nature of Wuornos’ words proved that she was not of sound mind.
One of the serial killer’s lawyer’s, Raag Singhal, went on to say that he saw ‘clear evidence of mental illness’ when dealing with her, according to the Guardian.
Billy Nolas, a second member of her legal team, said Wuornos was the “most disturbed individual” he had ever represented.
Wuornos herself claimed to have been physically and sexually abused growing up. She alleged that she had been raped ‘about 30 times, maybe more’ while a teenager.
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