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In 1992, Aileen Carol Wuornos, an itinerant sex worker, was arrested for the murders of seven men in or near Volusia County, Florida in 1989 and 1990: all of them shot while Wuornos was on the job, all of them shot at point-blank range. She became, in the view of the public, according to the filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who made two documentaries about her and about the media storm that surrounded her, a "man-hating lesbian prostitute who tarnished the reputations of her victims,\u201d a useful foil for family-values string-em-up-dead politicians who wanted to show that they were tough on crime\u2013and an unlikely lesbian hero.\nVisit our website for T-shirts, an episode archive, and more information about the show.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nBarrett-Ibarria, Sofia. \u201cHow Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos Became a Cult Hero.\u201d Vice (blog), September 19, 2019.\nhttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm3j4/how-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-became-a-cult-hero.\n\xa0\nBroomfield, Nick. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Documentary, Crime. Channel 4 Television Corporation,\xa0 Lafayette Films, 1994.\n\xa0\nBroomfield, Nick, and Joan Churchill. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer. Documentary, Crime. Lafayette Films,\xa0 Channel 4 Television Corporation, 2003.\n\xa0\nchesler, phyllis. \u201cA Woman\u2019s Right to Self\u2014Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos.\u201d Off Our Backs 23, no. 6 (1993): 6\u201315.\n\xa0\nLevina, Marina, and Diem-My T. Bui, eds. Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.\n\xa0\nPearson, Kyra. \u201cThe Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism\u2019s \u2018First Serial Killer.\u2019\u201d Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 4, no. 3 (September 2007): 256\u201375. https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420701472791.\n\xa0\nVronsky, Peter. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters. 1st edition. New York, N.Y: Berkley Books, 2007.\n\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.