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World's Most Evil Killers S03E02
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00:00November the 30th, 1989, Central Florida.
00:12When a 51-year-old male picked up a prostitute from the side of the road,
00:16he had no idea that she would turn out to be a cold-blooded killer.
00:22She was just utterly remorseless.
00:24This was somebody who enjoyed watching men die.
00:27She shot him four times with a nine-shot revolver.
00:32In her mass murder spree, hardened killer Eileen Wuornos
00:36targeted middle-aged wealthy men with expensive cars.
00:40She killed still.
00:42There was no sympathy, no...
00:45She was just a ruthless, mean bitch.
00:50Very few women have ever killed in such a violent and vile manner in history.
00:57Eventually, she was recorded confessing with the help of her girlfriend.
01:02What?
01:03I don't want to go to jail or anything.
01:05I have to discuss myself.
01:07Why the hell did you do this?
01:09Why did you do this?
01:10I don't know.
01:12In just one year, this female serial killer
01:15callously shot, robbed and murdered seven men,
01:19making Eileen Wuornos one of the world's most evil killers.
01:23Daytona Beach, Florida.
01:47It was here that sex worker Eileen Wuornos went on a murderous rampage
01:53between November 1989 and November 1990.
01:58Her actions left locals fearing for their lives.
02:02Wuornos shot and killed, at point-blank range,
02:06seven men between 1989 and 1990.
02:08Here is somebody who is deliberately targeting men
02:13who are looking to engage in the services of a sex worker,
02:17and she is killing them and robbing them
02:19and disposing of their bodies.
02:22Detective David Taylor was on the police task force
02:26that was instrumental in bringing Wuornos to justice.
02:29It shocked the community that once we identified Eileen Wuornos
02:34as the killer of these men,
02:38that a female was that vicious in killing these people.
02:44About nine in ten serial killers are men
02:46and one in ten are women.
02:49Female serial killers tend to use quite remote methods
02:52like poisoning,
02:53but Eileen Wuornos literally went and picked victims
02:56as they drove past her on the highway.
02:58It's very rare to have a female serial killer,
03:01but it's even rarer to have one that kills
03:04in the way that Wuornos did.
03:05She essentially killed like a man.
03:09Mike Joyner was an undercover police officer
03:12on the Wuornos case and was key to her arrest.
03:16She would be on the side of the road and prostituting.
03:19She would pick up men as they stopped to help her.
03:23And then she would take them somewhere
03:28and kill them and take their money
03:32or take whatever value they had.
03:35Detective Brian Jarvis was also on the Wuornos task force
03:39and he recalls the impact her killing spree had on Florida.
03:44At this particular time,
03:46because of the way the bodies were found,
03:48the way things turned up,
03:49there was a lot of panic all over this.
03:51To have a serial killer on the loose
03:55is something that is going to have an impact on any community.
03:59Everybody in Florida uses the highways.
04:01Everybody feels that they have that connection to this case.
04:07This killer's story begins in 1956.
04:12Eileen Wuornos was born on the 29th of February
04:15in Rochester, Michigan.
04:18Her mother was just 16 years old when she gave birth
04:21and was unable to raise her.
04:25By March 1960, when Eileen's just four,
04:30she's formally adopted by her mother's parents, her grandparents.
04:34She had a really brutal upbringing with them,
04:38so she was regularly beaten by her grandfather.
04:42There were allegations of incest within the family.
04:45Her grandfather had a home-built sauna in his house
04:50and if he wanted to punish her for doing something he didn't like,
04:54he'd lock her in the sauna and crank up the heat
04:56and just let her stay in there.
04:59Eileen's abusive childhood sent her on a downward spiral
05:03and fuelled her hatred of men.
05:06This was somebody who was constantly in fear.
05:09Wuornos' grandfather allegedly, repeatedly said to her
05:13that she was worthless, that she should never have been born,
05:16that she was a mistake.
05:17So she's learning that she can't trust anyone,
05:19that she can't depend upon anybody
05:21and this is very, very dangerous.
05:25Eileen learned early to use any means available to survive.
05:30Before she got to her teen years,
05:33she was known as a cigarette bandit.
05:35She would trade sexual favors for packs of cigarettes.
05:38It's said that from around age 11,
05:41she's using her body as something to trade, as a tool
05:45and this kind of disconnection from her emotions
05:48is something that is going to have a significant impact
05:51on the rest of her life.
05:53Her behavior left her pregnant, aged 14.
05:58Now, on the orders of her grandfather,
06:00that baby is adopted.
06:02It's taken away from her
06:03and this is just reinforcing those ideas that she already has,
06:09that those who are supposed to love me hurt me,
06:11that I am worthless, that I'm not deserving of love.
06:15Shortly after she was forced to give up her child,
06:18Eileen was hit by another tragedy.
06:21Her grandmother dies of liver failure,
06:24having been quite a heavy drinker for many years.
06:27Her grandfather actually blames her for her grandmother's death.
06:30Her grandfather was furious
06:32and threw Wuornos out of the house.
06:36Aged just 15, Wuornos was left homeless.
06:38Alone, her only option was to live in the woods
06:42at the end of their street.
06:44She lives a very feral existence,
06:47sleeping in an old car
06:48and she's still a child at this point
06:51and this is incredibly damaging.
06:53There is absolutely nobody there for her.
06:55She is literally just taking each day as it comes.
06:59She's making sure that she has enough to eat.
07:01She is basically using her body as she's used it before.
07:07She's learning that life is full of rejection,
07:09it's full of pain, it's full of fear
07:10and that she really needs to hurt others
07:13before they get the chance to hurt her.
07:14One person she was still close to was her brother Keith.
07:19Just 11 months older than Eileen,
07:21the rumour was that their relationship was an unnatural one.
07:26There were allegations of incest.
07:28School friends of Keith said that they'd witnessed
07:30these things going on,
07:32so she felt a connection,
07:34but it was a very pathological and a very toxic one.
07:38Unable to cope living outside
07:40during the cold winter months in Michigan,
07:43age 16, Eileen hitchhiked over 1,000 miles west
07:47to the warmer climes of Colorado.
07:51Two years later, she was arrested for her first offence,
07:55driving under the influence and disorderly conduct,
07:59which included the dangerous discharge
08:01of a .22 caliber weapon.
08:05Eventually, in 1976, age 20,
08:08she hitchhiked 2,000 miles southeast to sunny Florida.
08:16It is no accident that very shortly after
08:20she gets to Florida,
08:23she falls in love with, or at least decides to marry,
08:28a 69-year-old man called Louis Gratz fell.
08:33He was president of the Yacht Club,
08:36but it was a doomed marriage.
08:39She's been incredibly violent towards him.
08:41Eileen was actually beating him up.
08:43She was hitting him with his own walking cane.
08:46Louis put a restraining order on Warnos
08:48and filed for annulment just weeks after they were married.
08:53While the proceedings were going through,
08:55Eileen received some devastating family news.
08:58In 1976, her brother Keith dies of throat cancer,
09:02and she's absolutely beside herself.
09:05And even though their relationship was an incredibly abnormal
09:08and dysfunctional one,
09:09she felt that she had an ally in him.
09:12But now, she was completely on her own.
09:15Eileen received $10,000 when her brother died.
09:19She spends it almost within weeks.
09:26Guns, cars, motel rooms.
09:31And then she decides she has to sustain this lifestyle
09:35and turns to armed robbery to do it.
09:39In 1981, she was arrested for stealing $35
09:43and two packets of cigarettes from a convenience store.
09:47Warnos spent over a year in jail,
09:49but that didn't deter her.
09:51Over the next decade, her criminal activity escalated.
09:55She really did demonstrate versatility.
09:58She was being arrested for driving under the influence,
10:01for assault and battery, for robbery.
10:04One man claimed when she was a prostitute again
10:07that she whipped a gun out and put it to his head
10:10and demanded $200.
10:12She was, to put it politely, out of control.
10:15In 1986, Warnos met a woman who changed her life.
10:20When she met Tyree, what Eileen thought,
10:23this is my soulmate, this is the person I want to spend
10:26the rest of my life with,
10:27and I will do anything for this girl.
10:30The owner of the last resort bar in Daytona Beach,
10:33Al Bulling, remembers one us well,
10:35who was a regular customer.
10:37She used to come in here,
10:38she'd shoot pool here with her girlfriend, Ty.
10:41She was a little mouthy with Eileen.
10:44If she needed a beer, she'd sit on a pool table
10:46and kind of demand her get her another beer or whatever.
10:51Having blown her inheritance,
10:52Warnos took it upon herself to raise the money
10:55the two needed to live.
10:57Eileen would go out and prostitute to make money
11:00so that she could buy things for Tyree.
11:01She would want to take care of her
11:03and make sure she was happy and never want to leave her.
11:06And I think that was what it boiled down to.
11:09Daytona Beach, Florida, November the 30th, 1989.
11:1333-year-old Eileen Warnos was now living with lover Tyree Amore
11:18and was indulging in a host of petty crimes
11:21to maintain their extravagant lifestyle.
11:24The frequency of the crimes
11:26and the force Warnos used to enact them was increasing.
11:30It all came to a head the night she was picked up
11:34by 51-year-old Richard Mallory.
11:38Richard Mallory owned an electrical repair shop
11:41and he'd been divorced for many years
11:43and he didn't make any secret of the fact
11:46that he did enjoy engaging in the services of sex workers.
11:49He picked her up hitchhiking,
11:51they were drinking,
11:52they were hanging out as it were
11:54and one thing led to another,
11:57some type of violent encounter
11:58where she ended up killing him.
12:00She shot him four times with a nine-shot revolver.
12:04She took a couple of pieces of property
12:06that were blowing to him,
12:07a camera and a radar detector,
12:08and she pawned them.
12:09She made some money off of the deal.
12:11When Richard Mallory's body was found
12:14two weeks after he was killed,
12:15there was no evidence to clarify what sparked her rage.
12:19His body was found, it was very decomposed.
12:23Basically, all we have to work with
12:25is what we have found at the crime scene,
12:28the physical evidence and the trace evidence, etc.
12:31We do know that he was shot multiple times
12:34and his victim was found in a secluded area
12:36right outside the city of Daytona.
12:40What triggered Warnos to kill for the first time
12:43remains a mystery,
12:44but what is certain is that the murder of Richard Mallory
12:47was the beginning of a dark and deadly chapter.
12:50For her entire life,
12:53Warnos has been victimised by men.
12:56She's been abused by them.
12:58But now, she's turned the table.
13:00She's the one that's in control
13:01and she's very much enjoying it
13:03because she's learned from a very early age
13:05that violence equals power
13:07and she really is on quite a high at this point.
13:11Taking one life once wasn't enough.
13:14Six months later, Warnos struck again.
13:16There's usually what they call a brief cooling-off period
13:20and this absolutely applied here.
13:23A large part of it was due to her paranoia
13:25and her fear of getting caught.
13:28And when she came back from that brief cooling-off period,
13:32now she was the predator.
13:34She was looking for who she was going to kill next.
13:38She's somebody who's being proactive.
13:41She's seeking out victims.
13:43She's getting access to them.
13:45She has an opportunity to harm them
13:47and she takes that opportunity.
13:49These men, they were all white males.
13:52They were all travelling the roads alone.
13:54They were middle-aged, 40 to 65.
13:58On May the 19th, 1990,
14:04she was picked up on the I-75 highway
14:07by a 43-year-old machine operator, David Spears.
14:11When they pulled over and he began to undress,
14:15she slipped out of the passenger's side door,
14:18walked around to the driver's side,
14:21aimed and fired.
14:22He'd been shot six times.
14:31One shot was not enough for Wuornos.
14:35She was making a point with her killings.
14:40She was saying,
14:41this is for all the men who have abused me over the years.
14:44This was somebody who enjoyed watching men die
14:48because for the first time in her life,
14:50she was powerful.
14:51She was the one in control.
14:53She was the one calling the shots.
14:56David was last seen by his son
14:58leaving work at midday to meet his ex-wife.
15:01When he didn't show up,
15:02his family reported him missing.
15:06Our patrol division had come upon a vehicle
15:08that was abandoned on I-75.
15:11It was in the southbound lane on the shoulder.
15:13It had a flat tyre.
15:14And when they ran the VIN number on the vehicle,
15:17it came back to David Spears,
15:18who had been reported a missing person.
15:20We searched the area.
15:21We secured the vehicle to process it.
15:23And we found that she had taken some stuff out of the vehicle
15:26and tossed it off the side of the road into the weeds.
15:29The items included the license plate or the tag from the car.
15:34David Spears' body was found less than two weeks later,
15:38dumped in Citrus County, a few miles from the I-75 highway.
15:43May the 31st, Wuornos went on the prowl again.
15:50In Pasco County, Florida, 40-year-old Charles Caskedon,
15:55a part-time rodeo rider,
15:57picked up Wuornos about 30 minutes north of Tampa.
16:00He was travelling back from St. Louis.
16:03He had been up there visiting his mother,
16:05and he drove back from St. Louis to the Tampa area
16:08where he was living with his fiancée.
16:09And just before he got to Tampa, he encountered Aileen.
16:14Aileen had developed a deadly routine.
16:17Once a man picked her up, his fate was sealed.
16:21They would drive away, and she'd be undressing,
16:24and they'd find her a remote location.
16:27She'd encourage the victim to also remove his clothes.
16:30As Charles undressed, Wuornos slipped out of the car
16:34and came round to the driver's side door.
16:37Then, at Point Black Range, she fired.
16:45She didn't just kill.
16:47She shot Charles Caskedon nine times.
16:50Once she was sure he was dead,
17:00she took his car and his possessions.
17:06She didn't do that with Richard Mallory.
17:08She just took items she could use.
17:10Now she's starting to gather those souvenirs and those trophies,
17:13and it's becoming a passion of hers to do this stuff.
17:17She then dumped Charles' body a few miles from the highway in Pasco County.
17:24She left these victims basically in the middle of nowhere.
17:28And to do that to another human being,
17:32there's zero compassion.
17:33She's pure evil.
17:35Just a week after her last killing,
17:37the deadly predator was on the hunt again.
17:42On June the 7th, Wuornos chose to work her favourite highway,
17:46the I-75, in central Florida.
17:50After three murders, she'd honed her technique.
17:55Wuornos' victims were all men who drove expensive cars,
17:59so they were the symbol of success.
18:02That night, Christian missionary Peter Sims, aged 65,
18:06left his home in Jupiter, Florida,
18:08and was driving north on the I-75.
18:12Peter Sims was on a road trip,
18:15and he never made it to his destination.
18:18His intent was to drive up to New Jersey,
18:20and from there he had planned on going over to Arkansas.
18:22He had a number of Bibles in the car with him.
18:24He was going to pass them out along the way.
18:27Instead, for some unknown reason,
18:29Peter Sims picked up Eileen Wuornos.
18:32He could not have thought of it as a more upright character.
18:37He also took part in an outreach Christian ministry.
18:41But I think that that infuriated Wuornos,
18:45because she thought,
18:46you hypocrite, I am going to kill you.
18:49And she duly did.
18:50The following month,
18:54the car was found in the Ocala National Forest,
18:5750 miles west of Daytona Beach.
18:59The evidence discovered would point to Wuornos
19:02as the terrifying serial killer
19:04targeting middle-aged men across the Sunshine State.
19:10Daytona Beach, Florida, July 1990.
19:14Eileen Wuornos was living in a local motel
19:17with her girlfriend, Tyria Moore.
19:21In under seven months,
19:22the serial killer had callously shot,
19:25murdered and robbed four men.
19:27In what was by now a sadistic pattern,
19:31when each of the middle-aged men pulled over
19:33and picked her up,
19:34the 34-year-old sex worker attacked.
19:40She was just utterly remorseless.
19:42She didn't just shoot them once,
19:44she'd shoot them three times,
19:45four times, five times.
19:47They had all been shot
19:48with a small-caliber weapon,
19:50namely a .22.
19:52And another trait that these victims shared
19:55was that they had all been robbed
19:56with their personal effects.
19:58Their pants pockets pulled inside out,
20:00their personal ID was missing,
20:02and their vehicles was missing as well.
20:05On July the 4th, 1990,
20:07the car belonging to 65-year-old Peter Sims
20:10was found abandoned in the Ocala National Forest
20:13in Orange Springs,
20:15an hour's drive from Daytona Beach.
20:18Now, this is interesting
20:20because his body has never been discovered.
20:24The only way we know that he's dead
20:27is that his car was taken by Moore and Wuornos
20:32and driven around.
20:34Aileen and Tyria had decided
20:37that they wanted to go see the fireworks
20:39in Daytona Beach.
20:40As they were driving,
20:41they noticed a sign that indicated
20:43there was an Indian reservation
20:44up in the Ocala Forest.
20:46They turned around,
20:46and Tyria was going just a little bit too fast.
20:49She went off the road,
20:50the car turned on its passenger side and slid.
20:53The engine had stalled out,
20:55the carburetor had flooded,
20:56they couldn't get it started.
20:57The witness reported
20:59the suspicious encounter
21:00to Marion County Police Department in Florida,
21:03who went to investigate.
21:05Now, the one thing
21:07that was important to note here
21:08was that was the first time
21:10somebody actually saw these girls.
21:12We had received a telephone call
21:14through our 911 center
21:16that a vehicle had crashed
21:18in the community of Orange Springs, Florida.
21:21And walking away from that vehicle
21:24were two women.
21:26When they got to the scene,
21:28the investigators searched the car
21:30and made note of its distinct condition.
21:34The license plate had been removed,
21:36the driver's side seat
21:37was in the forwardmost position,
21:39and we would find that certain things
21:41were missing from his vehicle.
21:43In this case,
21:44it was his receipt book and cash.
21:46So, at this point,
21:48we have another missing person.
21:49We have no idea what happened to him.
21:51Using the VIN number on the vehicle,
21:56the car was soon identified
21:58as belonging to missing person,
22:01Peter Sims.
22:02We searched the areas extensively.
22:05I don't know if it was for days or weeks,
22:07but it was a long time
22:07that we spent up there,
22:09looking for Peter Sims' body,
22:11looking for any type of evidence.
22:13The police found a series
22:15of pawn shop tickets in the car.
22:17When they tracked down the store,
22:19they made a major breakthrough in the case.
22:23One pawn ticket we found
22:24was for a box of tools,
22:26and that's what was...
22:27one of the things that was stolen
22:28from David Spears.
22:30The other pawn ticket we found
22:32was for a 35-millimeter camera
22:34and a radar detector.
22:35That's what was stolen from Richard Mallory.
22:37They submitted the car
22:39to forensic examination
22:41and made an important discovery
22:44on the driver's side door handle.
22:47Wuornos leaves a palm print
22:49in Sims' car,
22:52which will eventually become
22:53extremely significant.
22:56Wuornos would pawn many of the items
22:58that she stole from her victims
23:00in order to get some fast money,
23:02and her fingerprints
23:03would still be on these items.
23:05Now, because Eileen had
23:06such a significant criminal record,
23:09her fingerprints were on file,
23:11and it was only going to be
23:11a matter of time
23:12before they were matched up
23:13and she was connected
23:14to these murders.
23:16But before the police
23:18could piece the puzzle together,
23:20Wuornos struck again.
23:22It became very frustrating,
23:24and I can remember even at times
23:25thinking,
23:26are we going to be able to solve this?
23:27Are we going to be able
23:28to come up with something?
23:29And every time we got another body,
23:31it mounted.
23:32It, you know, it got worse.
23:34On July the 30th, 1990,
23:38Wuornos selected her fifth victim,
23:40a 50-year-old salesman
23:42called Troy Bullis.
23:44Troy Bullis,
23:45he'd gone out to do a delivery run.
23:47When he got to Daytona,
23:48he headed north up into Ormond Beach,
23:50made a few stops up there,
23:52turned around.
23:52When he was returning to the plant,
23:55he disappeared.
23:56On the way back to Daytona,
23:59he picked up Eileen.
24:01Like previous victims,
24:03Troy pulled up at a secluded spot.
24:07Minutes later,
24:08Wuornos shot him twice,
24:10at point-blank range.
24:1150-year-old Troy's body
24:19was found five days later.
24:23One of our deputies
24:24came upon his truck
24:25and had been abandoned
24:27at the intersection
24:28of State Route 40 and 19,
24:30very isolated area.
24:33A month later,
24:34she took her sixth life.
24:36On September the 12th, 1990,
24:3856-year-old retired police chief
24:41Charles Dick Humphreys
24:42was coming off the I-75
24:45when he picked up Eileen Wuornos.
24:48They drove to a deserted location
24:50a few miles off the highway
24:52in southwestern Marion County
24:54and pulled over.
24:56David Taylor was the homicide detective
24:58called to the scene.
25:01The evidence is consistent
25:03with Mr. Humphreys
25:04getting out of the vehicle
25:05from the driver's side.
25:07We're looking at
25:08Alien Wuornos
25:09getting out
25:09from the passenger's side.
25:11And it was at that point
25:12that shots rang out.
25:14So Mr. Humphreys
25:15is shot several times.
25:17He staggers over
25:18to this location
25:19and that's where
25:20Mr. Humphreys collapses.
25:21But what was so important to us
25:24was the fact that he was shot
25:25one time
25:26at a close non-contact range,
25:29meaning that the gun
25:29was held only just a few inches
25:31away from his chest
25:32when that round was fired.
25:34Wuornos shot Charles Humphreys
25:36multiple times.
25:39She's using much more violence
25:41than she needs
25:42to get the job done.
25:43It shows to me
25:45that she's enjoying
25:46this overkill.
25:47It's not enough
25:48to kill him.
25:49She has to destroy
25:50this individual.
25:52And this is somebody
25:53whose behaviour
25:53is escalating.
25:56By the autumn
25:57of that year,
25:58investigators were still
26:00unable to identify
26:01the killer
26:02and stop
26:03the murders.
26:06By the time
26:08Mr. Humphreys
26:09was killed,
26:10we had thought
26:12about there being
26:15a connection.
26:16So we had contacted
26:17every agency
26:18in Central Florida,
26:19whether it was
26:19on a local,
26:20state or federal level,
26:21because we didn't
26:22know anything.
26:23We were almost
26:24in the dark on this
26:25and it was very frustrating.
26:27Officers revisited
26:28the evidence
26:29from the previous
26:30six murder cases
26:31searching for clues.
26:34And it wasn't
26:34more than just
26:35a couple weeks later
26:36when Sergeant Brian Jarvis
26:40was actually going
26:42through other cases
26:44in Florida
26:45that had very similar
26:47MOs,
26:48such as an older
26:49white male
26:50shot multiple times,
26:52vehicle missing,
26:53and shot with
26:55a small-caliber weapon.
26:56And it was Brian
26:58that began
27:00to connect
27:00a couple dots.
27:02By winter
27:03of 1990,
27:05a task force
27:06was formed
27:06made up of detectives
27:08from several
27:09of Florida's counties.
27:12We actually all met
27:13at the Marion County
27:14Sheriff's Office.
27:15That's when this picture
27:17began to evolve.
27:19There's a possibility
27:20these cases
27:21could be related.
27:23While the police
27:24continued their
27:25investigation,
27:25warn us
27:26was free
27:27to kill again.
27:28The most important
27:29thing on our minds
27:30at that point
27:30is we've got
27:31to stop the killing.
27:32We have to do something
27:34to stop the killing.
27:35And we started
27:36with the task force
27:37and we had another body.
27:39It was devastating.
27:41She kills
27:42Walter Gino Antonio,
27:43a man of 62,
27:45who was found
27:45in a logging road.
27:48He'd been shot
27:50four times
27:50in the back
27:51and the head.
27:53And his car
27:54had been stolen.
27:55Antonio's abandoned
27:57car was found
27:58five days later
27:59just south
28:00of Daytona Beach
28:01in Brevard County.
28:03Walter Gino Antonio
28:04was a reserve
28:06deputy sheriff
28:06with the Brevard County
28:08Sheriff's Office.
28:10And some of the things
28:10that were taken
28:11from him,
28:13personal effects,
28:14were like a set of
28:15handcuffs
28:16and a flashlight.
28:18But the task force,
28:19another murder,
28:20was a mighty blow.
28:22It's like,
28:24why couldn't we do more?
28:26You know,
28:26how could we let this happen?
28:27It's kind of a personal blame.
28:29And, uh,
28:30what can we do?
28:31The task force
28:33refocused on the case
28:34of missing man
28:35Peter Sims,
28:36hoping to find clues
28:38that would lead them
28:39to the killer.
28:40We were perplexed
28:41with that case
28:41because we had
28:42not located his body,
28:44but he was
28:46a middle-aged
28:47white male.
28:48The biggest piece
28:49of evidence
28:50in that case
28:50was we had
28:51eyewitnesses
28:52that seen
28:53these two females
28:54leaving the scene
28:55of that crash.
28:57After interviewing
28:58the witnesses,
28:59the police were able
29:00to draw a composite
29:02sketch of the two women
29:03and that changed
29:05everything.
29:06I think the eureka
29:07moment came
29:08the first time
29:08we went public.
29:09Within the first hour
29:11of releasing
29:12these composites,
29:13we had a call
29:14that came in.
29:15It was item number five,
29:16our fifth lead,
29:17that named Tyria
29:19and Aileen.
29:21And in very short
29:22sequence,
29:22we had three other leads
29:23come in that also
29:24named the same girls.
29:26So now we knew
29:27there was something
29:28to that.
29:29Those leads
29:30eventually took us
29:31to some biker bars.
29:33Now we have
29:34undercover investigators
29:36that are now
29:37going from bar
29:38to bar
29:38looking for
29:40people that look
29:41familiar with the
29:42people in
29:43composite sketches.
29:45One of the
29:46undercover officers
29:47said to find
29:48the suspected
29:49serial killer
29:50was Mike Joyner.
29:52I was the lieutenant
29:54over a special
29:55investigation unit,
29:56the SIU unit.
29:57They called me
29:58in to a meeting
29:59and said
30:01that they
30:02had found out
30:05that she was
30:05staying in Daytona
30:07or close to Daytona
30:09and wanted me
30:11to go over there
30:14and see if I could
30:14find her
30:15in some of those
30:16biker bars over there
30:17and maybe,
30:18you know,
30:19get close to her.
30:23Daytona Beach,
30:24Florida,
30:25January 1991.
30:27After callously
30:28shooting and murdering
30:29seven men,
30:30the net was finally
30:32closing in
30:33on a cruel serial killer,
30:35Eileen Wuornos.
30:38She is a woman
30:39who took pleasure
30:41in not only killing
30:43but also robbing
30:44her victims.
30:46Wuornos is targeting
30:48adult men
30:49and she's a sex worker.
30:51It's normally
30:52the sex workers
30:52who are vulnerable
30:53victims of their clients.
30:55So she looks
30:56very different.
30:57She kills like a man.
30:58She is right
30:59in front of them
31:00watching them die
31:01and really quite
31:02enjoying it.
31:0334-year-old Wuornos
31:05did not know it yet
31:06but she was about
31:07to meet her destiny
31:08in Daytona Beach.
31:12After a composite sketch
31:14was released
31:14to the public,
31:15dozens of leads
31:16came in
31:17and Eileen Wuornos
31:18was identified
31:19as the prime suspect.
31:21When we reviewed
31:22the leads,
31:23it showed us
31:24that they had ties
31:25to the locations
31:26that we were looking at.
31:27It indicated
31:28that they'd gone inland
31:29which would have been
31:30Marion County
31:31and then to the east coast
31:32which was Daytona Beach.
31:35So a number
31:36of the undercover officers
31:37from all over the state
31:38that we were working with
31:40went over to Daytona Beach
31:41in an attempt
31:42to locate her.
31:44Within a couple of days
31:45she was found
31:46by undercover police officer
31:48Mike Joyner.
31:50I walked in a bar
31:51down there
31:52and I saw
31:55she was shooting pull
31:56and I recognized her
31:58and she had a bad
32:00scar on her forehead.
32:03Did my heart go to racing
32:04and beating?
32:05No.
32:06An undercover officer
32:07worst enemy can be
32:10himself
32:11if he don't control
32:13all his emotions.
32:17So I just ordered
32:19another beer
32:20and kept on working.
32:24But I knew I had her.
32:27And I knew I wasn't
32:28going to let it out
32:29of my sight.
32:31Mike spent three days
32:32following one of us
32:34around the biker bars
32:35in the area.
32:36In his bid to get close
32:37to her he even slept
32:39at her favourite hangout
32:40the last resort.
32:43And they had school buses
32:44seats
32:45all on the back porch
32:47and that's where I slept
32:49was on the school bus.
32:50And when they opened
32:51the bar up
32:52at seven o'clock
32:53you went back inside
32:55and went drinking again
32:56and shooting pull.
32:57I mean that's all you're done.
32:58You shot pull
32:59and drank beer.
33:00And she had no money
33:04and I had all the money
33:05so who was she
33:07going to stay
33:07the closest to?
33:09Which got nowhere
33:09from then on
33:10I had to
33:11and I started
33:11buying her beer
33:12and playing pool
33:13and just kind of
33:15hung together.
33:16With the task force
33:18secretly stationed
33:19outside
33:20on January the 9th
33:221991
33:23Mike Joyner
33:24made his move.
33:26We were in the bar
33:28we were dancing
33:29and I had a lot of money
33:32and that's what
33:33she was interested in
33:34and she wanted to know
33:37if I wanted to go out
33:38one night and party
33:40and I told her
33:42I said
33:43yeah I'd love to go out
33:46but I said
33:46you stink
33:47you ain't had a bath
33:49and I don't know when
33:52and I said
33:53I stink
33:53and I said
33:55I ain't doing that
33:56I'll go get a motel room
33:59and we'll clean up
34:00but I ain't
34:02going out
34:02with no stinking ass woman
34:03Mike told Wernos
34:06to wait for him
34:07at the bar
34:07while he went
34:08to get his room key
34:09instead he met
34:11with a task force
34:12outside
34:12and I meet with my
34:16outside people
34:18and tell them
34:18you know
34:20we make a plan
34:21because we knew
34:22what she had in mind
34:24the exact words
34:25I told them was
34:26piss on the fire
34:27and call in the dogs
34:29this hunt's over with
34:30this is her
34:32and I'm not going off
34:34with her
34:35because I'm not
34:35going to be
34:36the next victim
34:36Mike returned
34:38to the bar
34:39with a motel key
34:40and showed it
34:41to Wernos
34:42he then waited
34:43for her
34:44to make the next move
34:45could I get worried
34:48about it
34:48no
34:49she wasn't
34:50going to kill me
34:51in the bar
34:51I wasn't
34:52you know
34:53I really wasn't
34:53worried about it
34:54not at that point
34:55I just went
34:56and got another beer
34:57and said
34:58whenever you get ready
35:00I'm ready to go
35:00let's go
35:01a little while later
35:04Wernos
35:05and the undercover cop
35:06walked out
35:07of the bar
35:08the owner
35:09of the last resort
35:10Al Bulling
35:11was an eyewitness
35:12to what happened
35:13next
35:14they were just
35:15sitting at the bar
35:16drinking
35:16you know
35:17they didn't want
35:17to arrest her
35:18in the bar
35:18or anything
35:19because
35:19they didn't know
35:21what she had
35:22or didn't want
35:23nobody else
35:24getting hurt
35:25so they waited
35:26for her to walk
35:26out the door
35:27as soon as they
35:28hit the door
35:28that's when
35:29they arrested her
35:29Wernos
35:31was bundled
35:32into a car
35:32and taken away
35:33the task force
35:35had successfully
35:36executed the arrest
35:37safely
35:38I wasn't worried
35:40about my safety
35:41because I had
35:42the best backup
35:44in the world
35:45it was a relief
35:45I think that's
35:46the best way
35:46to describe it
35:47as a relief
35:48the next day
35:49investigators
35:50managed to track
35:51down Wernos
35:52his partner
35:53Tyria Moore
35:54in Scranton
35:55Pennsylvania
35:56and they said
35:57to her
35:58let's make
35:58her a deal
35:59if you can
36:00provide evidence
36:01if you can
36:01help us
36:02convict
36:02Eileen Wernos
36:03then we will
36:04give you
36:04immunity
36:05from prosecution
36:06so I think
36:08this was a
36:08very tempting
36:09offer
36:10Tyria agreed
36:12to call
36:13Eileen
36:13and let the
36:14police record
36:15their conversations
36:16Lee
36:18they're coming
36:19after me
36:19I know they are
36:20no they're not
36:21what
36:22I have to
36:26discuss
36:26I will
36:27okay
36:28yes
36:29why
36:30how did
36:30you do
36:31this
36:31why did
36:32you do
36:33this
36:33I don't
36:34know
36:34listen
36:38Ty
36:38wait
36:39I'll probably
36:41never be
36:41yes
36:44I love
36:46I have to
36:49confess
36:49everything
36:50to keep
36:51you
36:51from
36:51getting
36:52to
36:52my will
36:53okay
36:53now
36:56we'll do it
36:57now
36:58get it over with
36:59right
37:00this very
37:00moment
37:01yes
37:01get it over with
37:03all right
37:04the same month
37:07she was arrested
37:08Eileen
37:09Warnos
37:09fully confessed
37:10to the
37:11seven murders
37:12despite the
37:38seriousness of
37:39her crimes
37:39Warnos refused
37:41an attorney
37:41but in what was
37:50the cornerstone
37:51of her defense
37:52she claimed
37:53that in each
37:54case
37:54the men
37:55had tried
37:55to rape her
37:56I was drunk
38:05as hell
38:05and I was a
38:06professional
38:07woman
38:07and these guys
38:09just hit my
38:10with me
38:11starting to get
38:11drunk with me
38:12or whatever
38:12I just like
38:13opened up
38:14and fired
38:14my husband
38:15I was just
38:16trying to make
38:17my money
38:18and go
38:18I was
38:20trying to
38:21look out
38:21for herself
38:22she's still
38:23trying to
38:23perform this
38:24role
38:24as the
38:25victim
38:25because I
38:26think she's
38:27more than
38:27familiar
38:27with the
38:28fact that
38:28many sex
38:29workers
38:29are
38:30regularly
38:30raped
38:31and assaulted
38:31by their
38:32clients
38:32and I
38:32think she's
38:33trying to
38:33garner a bit
38:34of sympathy
38:35for herself
38:35in doing
38:36this
38:37her trial
38:52for first
38:52degree
38:53murder
38:53started a
38:54year later
38:55on January
38:56the 13th
38:571992
38:57at the
38:58Volusia
38:59County
38:59courthouse
39:00near Daytona
39:01it was an
39:04extraordinary
39:04defense
39:05after all
39:07she could
39:07simply
39:08have
39:08reported
39:08them
39:08to the
39:09police
39:09but she
39:10didn't
39:11do that
39:11she took
39:12the law
39:13into her
39:14own hands
39:15and indeed
39:16executed
39:17them
39:17herself
39:18Wernos is
39:20a simmering
39:21pot of
39:22resentment
39:22and it's
39:23not enough
39:23that she's
39:24killed her
39:25victims
39:25but she
39:26wants to
39:26make them
39:27suffer
39:27after they've
39:28died
39:28she wants
39:29to tarnish
39:29their
39:30reputations
39:31so she
39:32says that
39:32her victims
39:33picked her
39:34up
39:34they targeted
39:35her
39:35they were
39:36the predators
39:37not her
39:38in an
39:40unusual twist
39:41Wernos was
39:42only tried
39:43for her
39:43first murder
39:44that of
39:4551 year old
39:46Richard Mallory
39:47Florida
39:48state attorney
39:49John Tanner
39:50was the lead
39:51prosecutor
39:51in Florida
39:52if you
39:53have a
39:54series of
39:55crimes
39:55that are
39:56related
39:57in certain
39:58factors
39:59then you
40:00may be
40:01able to
40:01bring in
40:02evidence
40:02of those
40:02other crimes
40:03and in
40:03this case
40:04it was
40:04murder
40:04call the
40:06Williams rule
40:07John Tanner
40:08was able
40:08to draw
40:09a link
40:09between
40:10the seven
40:10murders
40:11each of
40:12these
40:12killings
40:13looked
40:13almost
40:13identical
40:14showing
40:14I think
40:15basically
40:15that
40:16this
40:17appeared
40:17to be
40:17the print
40:18of the
40:19same
40:19killer
40:19and
40:20it
40:20certainly
40:21challenged
40:22the theory
40:23that she
40:23was simply
40:24defending
40:24herself
40:25against
40:25rape
40:26when you're
40:27saying
40:27that everyone
40:27that picked
40:28me up
40:28tried to
40:28rape me
40:29and credibility
40:29becomes a
40:31real issues
40:31on january
40:33the 27th
40:341992
40:35eileen
40:36warnos
40:36was found
40:37guilty
40:37of the
40:38murder
40:38of richard
40:39mallory
40:39and sentenced
40:40to death
40:41then she
40:42pulled a
40:43major
40:43surprise
40:44one of the
40:45odd
40:45twists
40:46of this
40:47whole
40:47thing
40:47after
40:48being
40:50sentenced
40:50for richard
40:51mallory's
40:52death
40:52she elected
40:54to plead
40:54guilty
40:55for five
40:56other counts
40:56of first
40:57degree
40:57murder
40:57and she
40:58accepted
40:59the death
40:59penalty
41:00without
41:01going to
41:01trial
41:01she really
41:02just wanted
41:03to get
41:03it over
41:03with
41:04she didn't
41:04want to
41:05go to
41:05trial again
41:06she didn't
41:06want to
41:06face
41:06tyria
41:07by november
41:091992
41:10warnos had
41:12been given
41:12a total
41:13of six
41:13death
41:14sentences
41:14she was
41:16never
41:16charged
41:16with the
41:17murder
41:17of peter
41:18sims
41:18as his
41:19body
41:19was never
41:20found
41:20after 10
41:22years of
41:22appeals
41:23and litigation
41:24she finally
41:25met her
41:26fate
41:27very close
41:28to the end
41:29of her
41:29life
41:29she said
41:30i have
41:32hate
41:32crawling
41:33through
41:33my
41:34system
41:34i'm
41:36competent
41:37sane
41:38and trying
41:39to tell
41:40the truth
41:40i'm one
41:42who seriously
41:43hates
41:43human life
41:44and i
41:45would kill
41:45again
41:46eileen
41:48warnos
41:48was executed
41:49by lethal
41:50injection
41:51on october
41:52the 9th
41:532002
41:54her reactions
41:56were
41:56typical
41:58eileen
41:58she was
41:59verbal
42:00she was
42:01discussing
42:01something
42:02about
42:02the
42:03mothership
42:03ready
42:03to blast
42:04off
42:04that she
42:06would be
42:06back
42:06again
42:07one day
42:07and here
42:08we go
42:08i've told
42:10a lot
42:10of people
42:11that
42:11when we
42:12stop
42:13talking
42:13about
42:14bonnie
42:14and
42:14cline
42:14that'll
42:15probably
42:15be
42:15the
42:16same
42:16day
42:16we
42:16quit
42:16talking
42:17about
42:17aileen
42:17warnos
42:18some
42:19people
42:19believe
42:19that
42:20she
42:20was
42:21an
42:21abuse
42:21victim
42:22that
42:22she
42:22was
42:23very
42:23childlike
42:24vulnerable
42:24other
42:25people
42:25feel
42:25that
42:26she
42:26was
42:26a
42:26sadistic
42:27killer
42:27she
42:27enjoyed
42:28ending
42:29men's
42:29lives
42:29in
42:30reality
42:30it
42:31was
42:31probably
42:31a bit
42:32of
42:32both
42:32and
42:32that's
42:33why
42:33we
42:33continue
42:33to
42:34be
42:34fascinated
42:34by
42:35her
42:35in
42:36just
42:36one
42:37year
42:37she
42:37callously
42:38killed
42:38seven
42:39men
42:39in
42:39cold
42:40blood
42:40and
42:40then
42:41robbed
42:41them
42:41she
42:43had
42:43a
42:43record
42:44unmatched
42:44by
42:45any
42:45other
42:45female
42:46killer
42:46the
42:47violent
42:47nature
42:48of
42:48her
42:48multiple
42:49murders
42:49makes
42:50Aileen
42:50Warnos
42:51one
42:51of
42:52the
42:52world's
42:52most
42:53evil
42:53killers
42:54you
43:07you