US EditionWhere Is Aileen Wuornos' Girlfriend Now After She Convinced 'Queen of Serial Killers' to Turn Herself In
Wuornos killed seven men, challenging norms as a female serial killer with motives beyond financial gain, as explored in Netflix's documentary with prison interviews and archival footage.
- Netflix releases Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers on Thursday, October 30, 2025, produced with BBC Studios and NBC News Studios, re-examining Wuornos's life through prison interviews and archival material.
- Following a 1989–1990 murder spree, Aileen Wuornos was arrested on January 9, 1991 in Port Orange, Florida after police linked evidence and witnesses to the killings of seven men.
- Meeting victims through sex work, Aileen Wuornos lured strangers off roads and used a gun, then committed robbery, blending personal gratification with financial motives.
- After more than a decade on death row, Aileen Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002 in Starke, Florida, receiving six death sentences for her first-degree murder convictions.
- Continued adaptations and coverage keep the case in the cultural conversation, with Monster starring Charlize Theron winning an Academy Award and Netflix's true‑crime catalogue revisiting Wuornos's motives and trial.
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What Is 'Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers' About? Meet Aileen Wuornos
Netflix is ready to investigate the complex story of Aileen Wuornos. In the streaming platform’s new documentary titled Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, viewers are taken on a wild ride as the film explores the circumstances that shaped Wuornos’ trauma-filled life and deadly crimes. Through interviews, archival material and Wuornos’ own words, the documentary aims to shine a light on the nation’s imperfect justice system. At the same time, i…
The Man Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos Spared: He Says She Let Him Walk Away
Serial killer Aileen Wuornos claimed she’d seen roughly 400 men in her capacity as a sex worker during the months her murders unfoldedNetflixNEED TO KNOWIn a new Netflix documentary, a man says serial killer Aileen Wuornos “had the opportunity” to kill him but spared his life, calling himself “living proof” she wasn’t a cold-blooded killerJudge Gayle Graziano recalls that Wuornos claimed she’d seen roughly 400 clients while working Florida’s hig…
Where Is Aileen Wuornos Now And What's The Real Story Behind 'Queen Of Serial Killers'?
The new Netflix docuseries Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Thursday, reexamines the story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s most notorious female serial killers, more than two decades after her execution for killing at least six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990 while working as a sex worker. What is ‘Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers’ about? Director Emily Turner said the docuseries aims to give viewers an intimate l…
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khbrknewsWhat to Know About 'Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers'
The story of Aileen Wuornos—who murdered seven men between 1989 and 1990 and was executed by lethal injection in 2002—has long been a fixture of culture, fictionalized on TV and dramatized for film, with Charlize Theron playing the serial killer in an Oscar-winning role. Wuornos was a sex worker in Florida and confessed to fatally shooting seven middle-aged men over a period of 12 months in 1989 and 1990. She was convicted for just one of the mu…
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