This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men—a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.
This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes, serial killers, and justice in America.
Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul, a genuine American outlaw, a symbol of women's rage, a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children, and of how our justice system fails women.
Chesler's involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos' voice, as well as in her own, and delivers an incisive, original, and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired, traumatized, and alcoholic woman who had endured so much pain in her short life. When she'd had enough, the results were deadly.
This is a poignant, sometimes humorous, never-before-told behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos' story is handled with great sensitivity, but also with realistic detachment by Chesler as she probes the telling moment, the telling phrase. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a "killing field?" Was she also "born evil?" So many prostitutes have been torture-murdered by serial killers—how did Wuornos, once prey, become a predator
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/house-of-mystery-true-crime-history.
See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Kathleen Kaska - Murder at the Pontchartrain
Lida Sideris - Murderous Means: A Southern California Mystery
Joel McKay - It came from the Trees
Matthew Hughes - A God in Hiding
W.L. Hawkin - To Dance with Destiny (Hollystone Mysteries Book 5)
Mike McCrary - Someone Savage: An addictive suspense thriller
Jan Brogan - The Combat Zone
Gerald Elias - Murder at the Royal Albert
Erik S. Meyers - Death in the Ozarks
James L'Etoile - Face of Greed
Michelle Dresbold - Sex, Lies, and Handwriting
Stan Jones - THE SAND GARDEN (THE DANA FORSYTHE MYSTERIES)
Nzondi - Oware Mosaic
Charles H. Fischer - The Eunuch
JP McLean - Scorch Mark (Dark Dreams Book 3)
David Swinson - Sweet Thing: A Novel
Mary Keliikoa - Deadly Tides: A Misty Pines Mystery
I.S. Berry - The Peacock and the Sparrow: A Novel
Kathleen Donnelly - Hunting the Truth (National Forest K-9 Book 2)
Kalee Boisvert - Make Money Your Thing
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Museum of the Missing
Moments In Time And Space
TELL ME A STORY: THE TRUE LIFE OF JAKOB STANLEY
A Tale of Two Cities
The War of the Worlds
The Adventure Zone
پادکست رخ