Monster: Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos - Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry Dee

Written by Aileen Wuornos, Christopher Berry Dee
Read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster.

There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death-row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern. After escaping an abusive childhood at the hands of her grandparents, she became a child prostitute, progressing into a disastrous adulthood of prostitution and damaging affairs with both men and women. Her eventual metamorphosis from victim to attacker had brutal consequences: a stream of dead men. This is her story, as told to Christopher Berry-Dee, editor of The New Criminologist and director of Britain’s Criminology Research Centre.

Date of release: 2004 (book), 2014 (audio)
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes