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Dive into the chilling and untold details surrounding one of the most notorious true crime cases. While “Queen of the Serial Killers” explores Aileen Wuornos' story, many dark and disturbing aspects were left out. From harrowing abuse and disturbing family secrets to conspiracy theories and the harsh realities of her imprisonment, uncover the grim truths that the documentary didn’t reveal.
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00:00And I was fighting the demons within me that kept saying, don't tell the truth, I want you to go to hell with me.
00:05And I said, no way, man, I'm going to the Lord Jesus Christ, I'm going to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth.
00:10Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:12Although Queen of the Serial Killers provides a captivating glimpse into Eileen Wuornos' life and crimes,
00:18there's a lot the Netflix documentary didn't tell you.
00:21You tell me your story and I will write it. That was our deal.
00:26So here are the gruesome, unerred details about one of the most complex and tragic true crime cases of the century.
00:34From incestuous relationships to systemic abuse.
00:37You can believe it or you don't have to believe it. That's up to you, man.
00:40Put a big question mark on your film.
00:44Eileen had an atypical upbringing.
00:47In Queen of the Serial Killers, Eileen briefly recaps her earliest memories of her family.
00:52She describes a normal, loving relationship with the grandparents who took her in.
00:56So when I was little, I was adopted by my grandmother and grandfather.
01:02She attributes her grandmother's passing, when she was 14, to the beginning of her rebellious streak.
01:08At around 15, I ran away from home.
01:11I got caught and went to Adrienne's training school for six months.
01:15When I got out, I hit that road and I split from the state.
01:19However, the documentary glosses over a truly harrowing element of her story that was detailed in an autobiography.
01:26There is a lot of people that's had bad lives, but not from day get go.
01:30Before being adopted, Eileen was raised by a single mother, Diane, who was only 16 years old.
01:36My mother, Diane, let me tell you something.
01:38She plopped me out of her belly, left me with my grandparents, and we never knew her.
01:44Eileen never met her father, as he'd been incarcerated for numerous crimes and eventually took his own life in prison.
01:51Diane later stated she regretted giving Eileen up to her parents because they'd been abusive during her own upbringing.
01:57Michel Chauvin recalled an incident with Eileen's grandfather.
02:00Although there's no mention of it in the Netflix documentary,
02:09Eileen's claims about the man who raised her were not unlike her mother's.
02:14Eileen claims she was abused by her grandfather.
02:17Eileen was led to believe that her grandfather, Laurie, was her own father.
02:20She asserts that after she discovered the truth, Laurie, who family described as, quote, an alcoholic, began to abuse her.
02:28The documentary does air a clip where she acknowledges that she was sexually assaulted by boys in her school.
02:33Twice when I was a kid by my high school friends.
02:36My high school friends, man.
02:38But Eileen had also accused Laurie of the same crime in other interviews.
02:42According to a 1991 Tampa Bay Times article, she was impregnated young.
02:47And if the rumors are true, this was at the hands of her grandfather's friend.
02:51This child was given up for adoption.
02:54After the baby, Eileen became the local untouchable.
02:58She spent two years living in the woods at the end of her street.
03:02Oddly, Eileen's soundbite in the documentary makes it sound as if her adolescence before running away was nothing but bliss.
03:08Not any impurities or perversion or battery or any of that jazz.
03:16However, these accounts of abuse, which were corroborated by childhood friends, more clearly explain what she was running from.
03:24I was on the road from 16 to 20.
03:28I'm hitchhiking and I'm hooking.
03:32Running into a lot of situations because I never had a place to live.
03:36I slept under viaducts, abandoned homes, cow pastures.
03:44Eileen claims she slept with her brother.
03:46Eileen wasn't an only child.
03:48Her brother Keith suffered the same turbulent childhood.
03:52However, one morbid detail that was left out of the documentary entirely is Eileen's claim that she had a brief incestuous relationship with him.
03:59Keith had, uh, Keith and Mark had Eileen in there.
04:05What do you mean that they had Eileen in there?
04:08Well, they had her in there and, you know, she was naked and...
04:14Details are murky.
04:16Though, a Los Angeles Times piece written in 1991 asserts she'd made this claim during correspondences with reporters.
04:23According to unsealed Florida court records, those who grew up near Eileen testified that they'd heard the rumors of this taboo relationship.
04:30Do you know whether she was having sexual relations with anyone else at this time?
04:37Yes, I do.
04:39And who was that?
04:41Um, her... her brother, Keith.
04:44On the other hand, one friend describes Keith as sweet, affirming that Eileen loved her brother and this misconduct hadn't been made known.
04:52Keith passed away when they were still young, so the truth will likely never come out.
04:57I just wanted to remark that I need to take a polygraph on what they're saying because there's too much...
05:03All right.
05:06Eileen hated media coverage of her case.
05:09When the bodies began piling up, police and media were hot on the trail.
05:13We're looking at similarities again of these two girls.
05:16Hopefully, we'll find some new evidence.
05:18We've just extended our search to about another square mile that we're trying to look into.
05:22My mother called me up and said, I think I just saw this female serial killer.
05:27Female serial killers make up less than 15% of cases.
05:31So to learn a woman was responsible was sensational.
05:34Hence the title of the documentary, Queen of the Serial Killers.
05:38The news media made her the queen of serial killers.
05:41Eileen's trial was covered widely, and there have been a number of high-profile films, books, and shows based on her life.
05:49You know what you do when all you know is people taken?
05:55You start to give.
05:56Give it away before they can take it from you.
05:59Give it all away for free.
06:01And that way, you can pretend that it doesn't hurt.
06:05A few moments in the documentary would lead viewers to believe she reveled in this exposure.
06:10She recognized, I'm the topic, the top topic of conversation.
06:17I'm a star.
06:20And she ordered everybody around, like Faye Dunaway on steroids.
06:25Like this account for movie producer Jackie Giroux.
06:28And she said, well, first of all, do you do movies or books?
06:34I thought, okay, she's auditioning me, right?
06:37I said, mostly movies.
06:39She goes, great.
06:41My story is unbelievable.
06:43Or what she whispers in the ear of Jasmine Hurst, who filmed a series of interviews with her.
06:48You guys are going to make millions off this.
06:50However, by the time Eileen was nearing execution, she had come to despise the attention.
06:57I'm not giving you book and movie info.
07:00I'm giving you info for investigations and stuff, and that's it.
07:03She realized that those who had entered her circle had ulterior motives,
07:07and couldn't actually help her case.
07:09We could get this money if I gave an interview.
07:12I'm not doing it.
07:13Why do you think she was so mad at both of you at the end of the last trial?
07:16Because we lost, because she has three death sentences.
07:19She went on numerous tirades about how society had, quote, railroaded her ass.
07:24Taking my life like this and getting rich off it all these years.
07:29Eileen turned to the only one she believed could have her back in this life, Jesus.
07:34I've come real close to God, and I think it's the right thing to do.
07:39And so she retreated from accountability,
07:41mentally turning herself into a victim perhaps greater than the men she'd killed.
07:46Eileen Warnes, the real Eileen Warnes, not a serial killer.
07:49I was so drunk and so lost that I turned into one, but my real self is not one.
07:56And I said, you ain't going to take me to prison.
07:58I've spent the rest of my life in prison with these creeps.
08:01I'm going to take a bunch of you creeps with me before I go, that's what happened.
08:06Eileen peddled conspiracy theories about police.
08:10Eileen gave an infamous interview from prison just one day before execution,
08:14during which she claimed to have been tortured by police while sitting on death row.
08:17Hey, I was tortured at BCI.
08:20They had the intercom on in the room, and they kept lying that it wasn't on,
08:28and they were using sonic pressure on my head since 1997.
08:34Brief excerpts were included in the documentary, but most were left on the cutting room floor.
08:39She mentioned spy cameras set up in her cell,
08:41and uncomfortable frequencies that had been pumped in to cause a lingering sense of discomfort.
08:47Did that affect your mind in some way, the sonic?
08:49It was crushing my head, and they were using sonic pressure.
08:54Eileen also insists that every issue which led to a grievance was amplified rather than fixed.
08:59Increase the harassment on the floor.
09:02And her logic why?
09:03They were trying to make it look like I was crazy at all times, rig up the room with torture.
09:09If I said anything about it, I think their whole plan was to try to make it look like I was totally crazy,
09:15and so nobody would believe anything I had to say about anything.
09:18She implies that her food had been poisoned, naming numerous attempts to assassinate her.
09:24And then one day I didn't wash my food off, and I was sick for three weeks, almost died.
09:27Because of her deteriorating mental state, the legality of putting her to death was called into question.
09:34Whatever's on the beyond, I think it's going to be more like Star Trek beaming me up into a space vehicle, man.
09:39Then I move on, recolonize to another planet or whatever.
09:42She even mentions that police had been aware of her killings,
09:45and allowed her to continue because she was cleaning up the streets.
09:49Did you know that they were surveilling me before I killed?
09:52And then I knew it?
09:53This ultimately allows her to shift the blame off of herself and onto a wider systemic issue.
09:59I didn't do anything as wrong as they said.
10:02I did the right thing.
10:04Eileen's gender factored into her treatment.
10:07From the very opening of Queen of the Serial Killers,
10:10we're offered two very different perspectives on Eileen Wuornos.
10:14First, a police captain describes how repulsive Eileen is,
10:18reprimanding her more for her appearance than her crimes.
10:20Well, I wouldn't want to meet her in a dark hour.
10:23So, kind of baffles me how she got any customers at all.
10:29Then, filmmaker Jasmine Hurst offers a nuanced perspective on how Eileen was treated by the public.
10:34She's like the trifecta.
10:38Gay, female, sex worker, and killing white men.
10:45This establishes a sense of duality that ultimately played a part in how Eileen was received by the judge and jury.
10:51John Tanner just didn't care.
10:55She's a woman and a prostitute.
10:58And he had a problem with that.
11:00Some of the psychological torture Eileen references was denied and never proven.
11:05They had come into her room one time and opened up the light.
11:08And they cut the wires in front of her to prove that they weren't trying to take over her mind and brainwash her and whatever she was thinking.
11:18But it was documented that she'd experienced an incredibly harsh imprisonment.
11:23According to a hefty court-filed complaint, Eileen describes how she'd been left naked and freezing in solitary confinement.
11:29She was also denied hearing aids, glasses, and doctor visits, losing an unsettling amount of weight behind bars.
11:37Sad society didn't care, did they?
11:39They framed me for a movie.
11:41According to a 1990 study by the Florida Supreme Court Gender Bias Study Commission,
11:46because female offenders account for such a small percentage of violent crime,
11:51the reaction to their deeds is often extreme.
11:53I saw her up there and she was really, really scared.
11:57She knew that the tide of public opinion was totally against her.
12:04As a result, they'd been treated more harshly for their felonies.
12:08Eileen and Carol warn us to be electrocuted until you are dead.
12:13And may God have mercy upon your courts.
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12:31Eileen was once married.
12:34Many know Eileen as a lesbian, whose lover Tyria Moore ultimately betrayed her and turned her in.
12:40And this is my first encounter with lesbianism.
12:43And she turns me onto it for the first time in my life.
12:48However, most don't realize she'd married 69-year-old Louis Gratzfell in 1976.
12:53I was going out with guys and all that stuff and trying to fall in love with, you know.
12:59This was over a decade before her killing spree started, but it was very short-lived.
13:04He quickly filed a restraining order against her, claiming she had, quote,
13:08a violent and ungovernable temper.
13:11He also asserted that she'd attacked him with his cane.
13:13But like in her later cases of murder, Eileen responded that this was in self-defense.
13:18I still have to say to myself, I still say that it was just about to be said.
13:25Their marriage was annulled just nine weeks after it was made official.
13:29Do you think that there's any chance you would get a new trial?
13:35I don't think that nobody cares.
13:38Which detail of Eileen Wuornos' case did you find the most shocking?
13:42Comment below.
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