(theme music plays) (bugs chirping) (spooky music plays) - [Broomfield] It was here in these woods, off Florida's I-75, that
in the space of one year, the police found the bodies of seven men. They were killed with this gun, a high standard double nine point 22, Richard Mallory, Walter Antonio, Dick Humphreys, David Spears, Charles Carskaddon, Peter Siems, and Troy Burress. - [Woman Newscaster] Eight
men have been shot to death in cold blood on central Florida highways, including the busy tourist route of I-75. But this time there is an
even more chilling twist to the slayings. Police say for the first
time in criminal history, these killers may be murdering
with a feminine touch. - [Broomfield] On January the ninth, 1991, Aileen Carol Wuornos's was arrested in Daytona Beach, Florida. She worked as a hitchhiking hooker. (Aileen sighs) - [Officer 1] How're you doing? - Well, I came here to confess to murder. - [Broomfield] This is
the original police video of Aileen Wuornos's confession. - I wish I never woulda got that gun. And I wish to God, I
never became a hooker. And I just wish I never
woulda done what I did. I still have to say to myself, I still say that it was in self-defense. Because most of them either were gonna start to beat me up or were
gonna screw me in the ass, (indistinct) rough with me, so I'd fight 'em and
I'd get away from 'em. - [Broomfield] The idea
of a woman killing men, a man-hating lesbian prostitute who tarnished the reputation
of all her victims brought Aileen Wuornos a
special kind of hatred. Terry Humphreys' father
was a retired police chief. - There wasn't any sex
involved in my dad's murder. They cut him. They did
an autopsy on my dad. They wouldn't release
his body for over a week. They cut him from stem to stern. There wasn't any semen there, anywhere. - I just cannot imagine the
grief, the hurt, the anguish that they have caused this family. This is a man that I had for-- - I hope she makes up
with quote, Old Sparky. You know who Old Sparky is. - Politicians and the
Christian Right campaign for Aileen Wuornos's execution. - Because I'm tired of
this reelection jazz. They're just trying to get
promotional ladder climbing, political prestige from this, and I'm sick and tired of this. I'll probably get three
more death row sentences. And then I got to go to Pasco and Dixon for two more days, uh, death row. How many times you got to kill me? You know, I mean, this
is, this is bull shit. They don't need to be doing this. - [Broomfield] Even Ted Bundy
was offered life imprisonment. This was never offered to Aileen Wuornos. By the time I met Aileen, she already had four death sentences. But surprisingly in an odd way, I found her to be the most honest person involved in the case. All the others, her lawyer, her Born-Again Christian
mother, the police had all been involved in
trying to sell her story for as much money as possible. Hi, how're you doing? This is Aileen when I first
interviewed her in 1992, for my original film, The
Selling of a Serial Killer. - I say, it's this, the
principle is self-defense. They say it's number. I say, it's principle. The heck with what, it, it has nothing to do
with the number killed. It's the principle. But there saying if there's a number. No, self-defense is self-defense no matter how many times it is. I don't care if it's 100 times. I was very, I never provoked those guys. I never provoked them. I never showed any
provocations whatsoever. It was very nice, very decent,
very clean, very lady-like. I didn't even swear in
front of my clients. And a lot of my clients
I'd talk about Jesus and I talked political,
both, mixed together, and we never argued. - My old film had ended
with this announcement of the resignation of
Florida police officers who had illicitly entered
into Hollywood movie deals to sell the story of America's
first female serial killer, The Aileen Wuornos Story. - Major Dan Henry
resigned as Chief of Staff of the Marion County Sheriff's Office after being notified of an
investigation being conducted by the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement. The investigation being conducted by the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement centers around taped
telephone conversations made by Deputy Munster between
he and Major Henry involving the Aileen Wuornos case. - [Broomfield] There was
speculation at the time that if police officers
did, in fact, receive money, all Aileen Wuornos's death
sentences could be overturned. 12 years later, Aileen
is still on death row. There was no proper investigation into the police officers
and their movie deals. It all got covered over. Aileen and I kept in touch over the years. And then a few weeks ago
I opened my front door and to my amazement was
served with a subpoena to attend Aileen's final
appeal before execution. I had no idea how things would turn out and that I'll be witnessing an execution in one and a half years time. This is Ocala, Florida. All us witnesses were
housed together in a motel. - We're going to win this thing. I'm telling you we're going to win. - This is Joe Hobson, Aileen's attorney. Lawyers like Joe are kept very busy. 4,000 people are on death
row waiting for execution. Okay. (phones ring)
(people talking indistinctly) - Okay. - [Broomfield] You're not
very good at wheeling this. - I'm sorry. I'm sorry, bro. Okay. - And how's this particular
case been stressful, the Aileen case? - It's so important because
this is the legal system in a, in a phase where it's doing the most important thing it can ever do and that is taking human life. It's more important than a money judgment, or a, you know, adjudication of guilt
with 30 years in prison. And we've really gotta be careful. I mean the whole system's gotta be careful and my opinion and that the whole gist of our motion is that she's been failed by the legal system. - [Broomfield] Joe Hobson felt that Aileen had been poorly represented by her previous attorney Dr. Legal. - Most of us Will probably never worry about spending time in jail, but if you are ever involved in the criminal justice system, you will need a lawyer who can - [Broomfield] Joe Hobson was
hoping to get Aileen a retrial by discrediting Dr. Legal,
otherwise known as Steve. This is the Ocala Courthouse where we were going to
spend the next week. Steve, the lawyer, had made no attempt to investigate the cops. He pled guilty to all the murders and didn't even try and make
a deal for lesser sentence. Aileen had no money to pay him. So Steve used the money
obtained from interview fees. This man in front of me
is the State Prosecutor who wants to execute Aileen immediately. This is the first time I've
seen Steve for 11 years. He said my film got him run out of town. - Fuck you. - What? - Fuck you. Fuck you and the (indistinct) - What are you reading? - Fuck you and your documentary. Don't talk to me. - [Broomfield] What? - Don't talk to me. - [Broomfield] I had a feeling. (police radios broadcast) (quiet talking) - [Bailiff] All rise, please. (indistinct) court back in session. - [Judge] Okay. - [Bailiff] You may be seated. - All right, let's continue. - Now you were contacted
by Mr. Broomfield in 1992. Do you recall specifically charging or attempting to charge
Mr. Broomfield, $25,000 for an interview? - I didn't attempt to
charge anybody anything. If Ms. Wuornos asked me,
Steve, I or told me, Steve, I want $25,000 for this interview, I would have passed that on to the person who was interviewing. But it's not my position to set fees or we didn't have a fee schedule. - Will you admit that you're
depicted on the movie, The Selling of a Serial
Killer doing exactly that, trying to get $10,000, or I
think $25,000 for an interview? - I don't think there's any evidence that I tried to get $25,000 or anything. - So the next stage is really to come up with a counter offer. - No, the next stage is
to come up with $25,000. - [Woman Interviewer] Right. - But, okay, okay, well then, if you don't, then the
next thing to do is to really get a counter offer and let's, if, and let's tell her something. - [Broomfield] So, we would basically then pay the money to, well,
we pay money to you or to, as, as, as her legal. - As her mom and, and
Steve gets a percentage as her agent. - Right. - Very tiny percentage. This poor man works for nothing. - Nick, what are (indistinct) What's Davy Crockett doing
on a hundred dollar bill? Thank you. Thank you very much. - Have you seen the Mr.
Broomfield's production, The Selling of a Serial Killer? - Yes. - And you've seen yourself
depicted in that movie? - Yes, sir. - Do you recall joking in
that movie that your advice to any client facing
the electric chair was, to quote Woody Allen, don't sit down? - I remember making a lot
of jokes in that movie. - Judge. We're talking
about the depictions of Mr. Glazer in the movie, The Selling of a Serial Killer that the defendant
submits clearly captures the essence of his approach
to a representation, which clearly impeaches his claim that he had taken this
an altruistic, pro bono, National Lawyers Guild and
helps establish the claim that all along his motive
in taking this case was the publicity and
the money to be made. - I have to say, I always liked Steve. He was an old hippie from Micanopy, who was just way out of his depth. - The only thing really to do here is to have breakfast and then leave. (laughing) - This is Dawn Botkins,
Aileen's best friend. - What was that little ditty
you had about a collar? I really don't believe Steve
took the case on for money, but he was so inexperienced, he could only plead guilty for Aileen. He didn't even have a fax
machine or law office. - When I was living in a
teepee Micanopy, I had, I had, I went through the whole
thing, cows, chickens, geese, and uh,
- [Botkins] I got all that. - pigs. I had a cow called Sir Angus McBeef. Just so you know what he's
going to be, you know, you try to rationalize it. You're going into the
refrigerator and you're going in. And that was the last
meat I was able to eat. - [Botkins] I guess when
you look at it that way. - Aileen lived in a total fantasy world. She thought she'd get off the murders and then live with this woman. Arlene Pralle a Born-Again Christian, who'd seen Aileen's picture
in the local newspaper and had adopted her. Together, they planned
to run a horse ranch and raise she wolves. Arlene Pralle, Born-Again Christian, hired Steve and persuaded
Aileen to come clean with God and plead guilty. Steve had been advised
that Aileen was paranoid and suffered from borderline
personality disorder, but still went along with
this cockeyed scheme. Aileen seemed to think
a miracle might happen and was outraged to receive
three more death sentences. - I sent it to you to death for the murder of Charles Humphreys. Case number 91-112,
Citrus County Case number, I sentence you to death for
the murder of David Spears. - Thank you. And probably see, uh, I'll be up in heaven while
y'all rotting in hell. If he gets raped in the
ass, one of these days. - [Judge 2] Okay. There
will be an automatic appeal. You have the right to
an appeal, Mr. Glazer, is that going to be handled by you with. - May your wife and kids get raped - [Glazer] I would ask that you appoint - Right in the ass. - [Glazer] the Public Defender's
Office I know I was raped. You aren't nothing but a bunch of scum. - [Judge 2] Therefore, these
proceedings are now completed. - Putting somebody who was raped to death, Fucking Mother-fucker. - [Broomfield] In many death
row cases, a client in despair will say they want to die. It was a measure of Steve,
the lawyer's inexperience that he took Aileen's wish on face value. I like to flatter myself that I was being asked
for my legal opinion, but it turned out I was there to talk about Steve's marijuana smoking. The big question was
whether Steve had consumed seven very strong joints before giving Aileen
legal advice in prison. - Your Honor, I've got a short video clip I want to show if, and then, It's an excerpt from the film that depicts this alleged six, seven joint ride. And as a preliminary question, isn't it true that in doing your work, you routinely edit things, correct? - Well, you always edit afterwords, yeah. Cause, - [Attorney] Editing
involves cutting and pasting and putting things together. - Um-hum. - [Attorney] Correct? - Yeah. - [Attorney] And that's
what you do all the time. - I don't know about the
pasting, but you certainly can't - [Attorney] Pasting in terms of inserting and connecting and making
things fit together. - [Broomfield] Correct. - [Attorney] Okay. - [Broomfield] It was 6:00 AM. Steve said it was a seven
joint ride to the prison. And he rolls them on the
tape of his music with him, singing them, playing all the instruments, especially for the occasion. (rock music plays) ♪ Ticking away the moments ♪ ♪ That make up a dull day ♪ ♪ Fritter and waste the hours ♪ ♪ In an off-hand way ♪ ♪ Kicking around ♪ ♪ On the piece of ground ♪ ♪ In your hometown ♪ ♪ Waiting for someone ♪ - Okay, let's go back. You recognize that? - Yes. But I
- That's your work, isn't it? - I apologize for the quality. It's not a very good copy. - [Attorney] But that's your work? - Yes. - You notice that the shirt
that Mr. Glazer has on is white? - [Broomfield] Uh-huh. - [Attorney] Now, here he's
got a blue shirt on, correct? - [Broomfield] Maybe he changed
his shirt, I don't know. - [Attorney] He had a blue shirt on. - [Broomfield] Now he's got a white one. - [Attorney] Now he's got a white shirt. - It's possible he changed his shirt. I've, I've got, maybe you
put up a clean white shirt on for the prison visit. - But isn't it also possible
that you just cut and paste, took footage for one
episode and cut and paste it into another episode to
make it look like something that hadn't in fact happened. - I remember distinctly the,
I mean the seven joint ride, if that's what you're referring to. I don't remember him changing his shirt, but we could, if you want, we can make all the out takes available from that particular journey
because they're still, they're still available. - [Attorney] It's not very convenient now. And you hadn't made
those available before. - I didn't know you wanted them before. I didn't even know that the film was going to be submitted as evidence. If I was making that trip, I would probably change my
shirt at the end of the trip. I don't know about you. - But that's part of my question, is it? - [Broomfield] I don't know, but I would, I would probably bring a clean
shirt along for my visit. (indistinct) I would. (quiet conversations) - No. - I'm sorry. (door clangs) - [Broomfield] I got a
message that Aileen wanted me to meet her at the local jail. We checked the film out takes and made the great legal discovery that Steve had, in fact,
exchanged his pongee blue t-shirt for clean white one. (door clangs) - [Broomfield] My goodness. - My God. - How are you? - Get out of there, Nick, get it straight. - [Broomfield] I'm just trying to, sorry. - Ah, there. Whew! - [Broomfield] There
was a microphone which sorry about that. - Oh, Lordy. - [Broomfield] All right. - Okay. I can't believe this
microphone, how small it is, you know, and it actually works. - [Broomfield] It actually works, yeah. - Okay, Nick. Nick, this, this interview, man. I got to, I just, Let me do this thing over one more time. Cause I know you guys pre-tape
and you clip and stuff. - [Broomfield] Right. - So let me say it one more
time, kinda right, okay? Cause I'm really concerned
about the family members. I get my hair out of my
face while I'm doing this. Cause I'm really concerned
about the family members. So I want to say this again over. Nick, the reason I'm coming forth with you with this interview is
because I like to come clean about my cases and because
there's only about 1% chance that a person can get off death row. And I come to realize that
that is actually true. Very, very true. There's only like about 82
people that got off death row in like 30 years, out of like about four or 5,000 death row inmates. And those are only DNA
people, blood sample. So their chances of getting
off death row are 1%. 999.9% you're going to be on
it and you're going to die. Okay, I can not go in
the execution chamber and die in the execution
chamber as a liar. And I cannot go in the execution chamber and be executed under the devil. I have to come clean and cleanse, cleanse my spirit in the
name of Jesus Christ. So I have to come clean and tell the world the lies that went on through my mouth. I mean, now prosecutors and the cops. - [Broomfield] Why don't you admit you killed those seven men? - Huh? - [Broomfield] That you killed
those men in cold blood. - Yeah. And I got to come clean that
I killed those seven men in first degree murder and robbery, as they said, they had
it right a serial killer. Not so much like thrill kill. I was into the robbing biz. I mean, you know, serial killers are in
this thrill killing jazz. I was into the robbing just
and eliminate a witness. But still and again, I got
numbers, so it's serial killer. But I'm coming clean before I
go in that execution chamber and be executed that I killed 'em. - [Broomfield] And so when you
met them from the beginning, did you know that you
were going to kill them when they picked you up in their cars? - I pretty much, I pretty much had them selected that they were going to die. - [Broomfield] But when you're saying that there was no self-defense, so there was no self-defense? - Yeah, there was no self-defense. I'm being really straight
up about everything. There's no self-defense. I'm really sorry what happened, about everything I was
in, in this, this to me, this world is nothing but
evil and all of us are full of evil one way or another. And whatever we do, we have evil in us. All of us do. And my evil would just happen to come out because of the circumstances
of what I was doing, hitchhiking, hooking, on the road. I was a homeless person all my life. And then the hitchhiking and hooking I learned off the homelessness and cruising all over United
States of America and stuff. And so learning how to be
a hooker as a hitchhiker, - [Broomfield] Right. - eventually got tiring in the end, I carried the gun for protection, but then I got where I was
getting a real problem. Our rent was due, $1,200 behind. Tyria was doing a lot of
beer drinking and stuff. She wanted to go out all the time. So she was burning up
the money I was making. I was making good about two, 300 a day. Sometimes, sometimes 150. - But did she know what you were doing? - Oh yeah. Tye always knew
everything I was doing. - I met her in a bar. - [Broomfield] This is
Aileen's great love, Tyria. One of the reasons I'd felt
so much sympathy for Aileen was that she was betrayed
by those closest to her all her life. - We were sitting on the floor watching TV and she just come out and said, I have something to tell you. And I asked her what? And she said that she had shot
and killed a man that day. - [Broomfield] Tyria knew
about the murders all along, but didn't come forward to say anything until she was questioned by police. Tyria, who was never
charged with anything, was then made a state's witness,
and it has been asserted, became part of the movie rights package in the Hollywood police film deal. It was Tyria who got Aileen to confess in a series of taped phone calls. - [Tyria] Hello? - [Wuornos] Hi. - [Tyria] Yes. Yes. - [Wuornos] Hi. - [Tyria] Hey, - [Wuornos] Hey I had to call you early because I didn't know if you were going to leave today or what. - [Tyria] I don't, what
the hell is going on? Lee, they've called, they've been up to my parents again. They've got my sister
now asking her questions. I don't know what the hell's going on. - [Wuornos] Huh? What are they asking your
sister questions for? - [Tyria] I don't know. - [Wuornos] Hmm - [Tyria] Lee they're coming
after me, I know they are. - [Wuornos] No they're not. - [Tyria] (indistinct) Why are they asking so many questions then? - [Wuornos] Honey, listen, listen, listen. Do what you gotta do, okay? - [Tyria] I'm going to have to, because I'm not gonna go to
jail for something that you did. This isn't fair. My family is a nervous wreck up there. My mom has been calling me all the time. She doesn't know what
the hell is going on. - [Wuornos] Okay. Do what you gotta do, okay? Alrighty. - [Tyria] What? - [Wuornos] I'm not going
to let you go to jail. - [Tyria] I don't know whether
I should keep on living or if I should - [Wuornos] No, Tye, Tye, listen to me. - [Tyria] What if they don't believe me? - [Wuornos] Tye listen to me. - [Tyria] What? - [Wuornos] I'm not gonna let
you go to jail or anything. If I have to confess I will. - [Tyria] Okay. - [Broomfield] SO you were very close? - [Wuornos] Yeah we, - [Broomfield] All right. - [Wuornos] And I still miss
her and I still love her. And I'm really, and I'm really sorry
about everything I done. I miss Tye. I lost Tyria over this. And then the people that
lost their loved ones and everything. I really think first about the people that lost their loved ones. And then Tye second. Because I have to put them
in first on this whole thing. I'm really sorry for the, you know, them losing their loved ones, man. I know the feeling. - And what about with, with Richard Mallory? Cause you gave that testimony
with Richard Mallory? - Yeah, Richard Mallory is
definitely was not self-defense. Richard Mallory, I killed for, he had, I needed his wheels to move the stuff and he had the right
amount of money I needed to move into the apartment, so. - [Broomfield] But what
about the testimony that you gave in court about. - That's just, like I was saying - About the Visine and. - Oh, I was just doing a lying biz. That was just my lying gig,
try to beat the system. - [Broomfield] Really? So that was really all,
none of it was true? - And he said it doesn't matter to me, your body, your body will
still be warm for my huge cock. And he said he was choking me and I was holding it like this. And he said, do you want to die, slut? And I just nodded, no. And then he said, are you gonna, you gonna listen to everything
I've got to say, have you do? And I just nodded yes. - [Glazer] And then what happened? - He takes the Visine
and he lifts up my legs and he puts what turns
out to be rubbing alcohol in the Visine bottle. And he sticks some up my rectum area and that really hurt really bad Cause he tore me up for awhile And he put some in my vagina, which really hurt. And then he walked around
back to driver's seat side and he pulled my nose open like this, pulled 'em open and he squirt,
rubbing alcohol down my nose. And he said, I'm saving your
eyes for the grand finale and he put the Visine back on the dash. And I spit in his face and he said, you're dead, bitch, you're dead. He's wiping his eyes. And I laid down real
quick and grabbed my bag and he was starting to come for, for me when I grabbed my bag and whipped my pistol out toward him. And he was coming toward me
with his right arm, I believe. And I shot immediately. And I think I shot twice,
as fast as I could. - [Broomfield] Because in court you gave such a graphic description of what had happened with Richard Mallory. - Yeah, after sitting around thinking of how I can drum up a story. - [Broomfield] That was pretty convincing. - Was it? That's sad. - [Broomfield] Well, I thought so. - God, that's sad, well - [Broomfield] And it's not, and it's not that you just
decided that you wanted to die and you wanted to get
it over and done with that you changed your story. - No, the reason is it's serious. You there's no way. And nobody should go in
that execution chamber dying on a hope for a lie. And even by the second, make
it out of this thing on a lie. - [Broomfield] But I heard you know, that you just couldn't stand being on death row after 12 years. - Nick. And this is the last
time I'm gonna say it, you have to kill Aileen Wuornos
because she'll kill again. - [Broomfield] I had always
believed that Aileen Wuornos had acted in self-defense and that Richard Mallory,
her first victim, who had a long history of sex crimes and who had spent five
years in an institution for sex offenders had
tortured and tormented Aileen, pushing her over the
edge into an insanity, which led to the other six murders. This is what Aileen said
to Judge Muriel Blunt before the sentencing on
the Richard Mallory murder. - What I did was what
anybody else would do. I defended myself, which everybody has a
right to defend themselves. And I had no intentions of killing anyone. I would not do that. I'm just not, I'm not that type of person. - [Broomfield] But the
jury didn't go for it. This was Aileen's reaction on receiving her first death sentence. - [Foreman] Count one,
the majority of the jury final vote, 12 to nothing advise
and recommend to the court, that it impose the death penalty
upon Aileen Carol Wuornos also known as Susan Lambert
Blaovec, also known as Lori, Christine Grady also known
as Cammie Morris Green. Dated at Deland, Voluisa County, Florida this 30th day of January, 1992. - [Reporter] Aileen, how do
you feel about the verdict? - I'm innocent. I was raped and I was tortured and they had a steering wheel, a picture of the steering wheel and it had scratches all
over it, and it's broken It's proof that I was tied
to that steering wheel and I cannot believe that this happened. - [Reporter] Why did this
jury find you guilty? - I think it's the media coverage. It's a conspiracy. - [Broomfield] I couldn't
believe what happened the next day in court, Aileen objecting to her own witnesses. - And I need to get this on record. - [Blunt] She's taking it now. - Okay. The, there are some witnesses
they're coming saying, and I've already told my
attorneys on numerous occasions. These people did not
grow up with me at all. They lived in the neighborhood but they didn't really associate with me, my brother, my sister, and everybody else. - [Judge 2] Here's the only thing, the attorney can call them, but he can't put on
anyone he thinks is, is, is committing perjury. That that's unethical for him to do that. He's if he thinks they're lying, if he knows that they're
lying, you can't put them on. - Okay. - [Judge 2] Thank you. - Thank you. - [Hobson] Judge? - [Judge 2] Yes, ma'am, uh, yes, sir. - May the defense request
a 10 minute recess. - [Judge 2] Yeah. Okay. In view of the statements, - I need to confer with my client. - [Judge 2] Of course. Okay. They want to take 10 minutes and confer or way what they want to say, okay. - [Man] Yes sir. - [Judge 2] We'll be in
recess for 10 minutes. - [Broomfield] Aileen was
deliberately sabotaging her own defense, but the
witnesses were called anyway. Danny Colwell, like many other
boys in the neighborhood, lost his virginity to Aileen. Aileen was trading blow
jobs for cigarettes from the age of nine. - I was just heading over
there to see who was there and got up to the Fort and
the door was kind of closed. So, I, you know, opened
it up and Keith had Keith and Mark had Aileen in there. - [Hobson] What do you mean
that they had Aileen in there? - Well, they had her
in there and, you know, she was naked and, - [Hobson] And what was happening? - Well, Keith was having sex with her. - [Hobson] Did you stay during that? - Yes. - [Hobson] Did you ever have sex with Aileen again after this? - Just that day. - [Broomfield] Jerry Moss,
who was a lover of Aileen's, pretended in public he
didn't even know her. - She wanted us to be
boyfriend, girlfriend in public and I - [Hobson] When you were
in public around other kids when the rest of the kids were around, how did you treat her? - Like she was nobody. Like she was dirt. Like I had nothing to do with her. You know? - [Hobson] What would you say to her? - Tell her, get the fuck out of my face and go some fucking place else. - [Hobson] Did you call her any names? - Call her ugly, bitch. - [Hobson] If she were
following along behind you, what would you do? - I would, um, depending on
who was with me or whatever, but I'd turn around and throw rocks at her and told her to get the
fuck out of there, go home. - [Hobson] Why, why would you do that? - Cause I didn't want to be seen with her. I didn't want to be associated with her. - [Hobson] Do you know whether she was having sexual relations with anyone else at this time? - Yes I did. - [Hobson] And who was that? - Her, her brother, Keith. - [Hobson] Is that her
uncle or is that her actual? - That's her actual, actual brother. - [Judge 2] I just want to
make sure that, you know. - I just want to remark that they need to take a polygraph on
what they're saying, because there's too much perjury going on. - [Judge 2] All right. - [Broomfield] Michelle
Chauvin recalled an incident with Aileen's grandfather. - I don't know how much
you want me to say. He was a bastard. - [Hobson] Do you recall
an incident when you and Aileen skipped school? - Yes. - [Hobson] What happened when, uh? Did you go to Aileen's house with her? - I walked home with her
and we had gotten caught and I remember looking through the front. They had a screen door view. And the minute she walked
in, he had her over a chair and I stood there and watched him. And he beat the hell out of her with a black belt that
was around his waist. He took it off and told
her to lean over the chair. And walloped on her for
a good five minutes. - [Hobson] Is this what
you would call a spanking? - Oh no, no. It was like, I was, it left me hypnotized. - [Hobson] Did he know you were watching? - Yeah, he did. He was aware I was watching. - [Hobson] Is that just an example as to. - That's an example. Yes. - I want to stay consistent. - [Broomfield] It had been a long week, all the witnesses stuck
together in this motel. Do you think we'd all gone
mad if we were locked up, for much longer together? - Dawn insisted that
gays hadn't been invented when she and Aileen first became friends. - They weren't invented or whatever. There was no gay people. - [Broomfield] Well,
what were they all doing? - They weren't gay. There was no such thing as gay. - [Crew Member] They were in the closet. - No, they weren't. There was no such thing. I don't remember a person at school gay. I didn't hear this gay
stuff til 10 years ago. Well, maybe 15. It's just now starting to be acceptable. But no there was not. Was there gay people
when you went to school? - I'm sure there probably were. I went to a British public school. There were many, that's
where it was invented. Us and the Greeks, you know? - [Chauvin] No way, really? - Of course. - I just have to do this. Sorry. Look. Come on, you guys. - [Broomfield] After all that, Aileen decided to volunteer for execution and we all went home. Now that Aileen was confessing to being a cold blooded killer, Aileen found she had a lot of new friends. - Her appeals have been exhausted. She wants to meet her creator. She's on the list. Absolutely. - [Woman Reporter] Governor
Jeb Bush is expected to sign Wuornos's warrant soon. (creepy music plays) - [Broomfield] We had all
come to this as witnesses, hoping to get Aileen off death row, but it now felt like we were
taking part in an execution. There was talk of making
an appeal on the grounds of Aileen's mental competence. We traveled to Troy, Michigan, where Aileen grew up to find out more. This is Dawn's house. - You got - Hi Joan. How are you? - [Botkins] My kids just come over with the grand babies. So you get to see 'em. - [Mr. Botkins] Granddaughter
and our grandson. - It's called look at this stuff. - [Broomfield] Dawn gets
up and writes to Aileen at 5:00 AM every morning. - I got looking for one thing today. So I figured while I
had Aileen's shit out, you can sit here, - [Broomfield] All this? - [Botkins] Yeah. Got lots of pictures of her
brothers and stuff like that, that you might want to look at. - [Broomfield] Really? - [Botkins] Well, yeah. - [Broomfield] All this? - [Botkins] All this. I
was looking for her will. I couldn't find her will. - [Broomfield] Her will? - [Botkins] Yeah Can you just sit down for awhile? - [Broomfield] Aileen does
the most amazing ink drawings that you can only see against the light. - [Botkins] Because you can't see 'em looking down at 'em. But it's perfect with
the sunlight outside. See how that does that? - [Broomfield] Wow. Have you got any, any pictures
of when she was quite young? Oh. - [Botkins] Isn't that kind of funny? - [Broomfield] It is funny. - [Botkins] Oh, that's her sister. - [Broomfield] That's? - [Botkins] That's her graduation. - [Broomfield] That's Laurie. - [Botkins] Yeah. That's
what she looks like, now. - [Broomfield] There
were other photos too. Aileen aged four. Her brother, Keith, age six. Aileen's biological mother,
Diane, who abandoned Aileen when she was six months old. Aileen's father, Leo who
is convicted of kidnapping and sodomizing an eight year old boy. He committed suicide in prison. Aileen's grandfather Lowery, who she called dad and is rumored to be Aileen's biological father. He abused both Aileen and her mother. Aileen aged 13 when she got
pregnant and had a baby boy that was put up for adoption. After the baby, Aileen
became the local untouchable. She spent two years living in the woods at the end of her street. (sad, creepy music plays) - [Botkins] Aileen used
to have a Fort back here as a matter of fact. - [Broomfield] A fork? - [Botkins] A fort. - [Broomfield] Oh, with Dennis. - [Botkins] Yeah. - [Broomfield] Aileen
would just sleep rough. - Um-hum. She would
either sleep in the cars or she would go around
prostituting at night to keep warm. Stuff like that. And hopefully she'd get a hotel. You know, some of these guys
would say we'll go get a hotel, then she could get a shower. That's how she washed and stuff like that. Or she would go to that
gas station up there, which is still there by the way, it used to be the Clark. That's where we used to go
in there and pinch our nose and drink, what was it? - [Broomfield] Boone's Farm - Peppermint Schnapps. It's disgusting. It's the only way you could
drink it to get the quick buzz I know it sounds sickening.
It was sickening. - [Broomfield] But it must've
been freezing in the winter. - Well, it was for her. I didn't come out here
in the winter. I'm sure. I don't think none of us did. - [Broomfield] She was
out here in the winter? - Yeah. That's why she left. - [Broomfield] Was it because
the kids picked on her though. - Yeah. Do you remember where we're at? Yeah, they always picked on her or she picked on them cause they always had something
terrible to say about her. But that's because she had a baby and they naturally assumed
that she, well, she did get. You know, she slept with
people for money and all that. So I imagine the girls in
our days probably thought, well, she sleeps with everybody and they just didn't like that. They don't think it's funny now though. - [Broomfield] How do you mean? - [Botkins] They think it's
terrible, how they treated her. And everybody, all of a sudden
comes out of the woodwork and said, oh, I was nice to her. I gave her clothes and stuff like that. No they didn't. (sad music plays) - [Broomfield] We went
to visit Dennis Allen who lived in the woods with Aileen and now lives in this house. - Hi. How are you? - Hi, how do you do? - Jim? - I'm Nick. - Nick? Dennis.
- Hi, how do you do? - [Joan] I'm Joan. - Hi, Joan? - [Joan] Hello. - And who are these fine creatures? - Oh, those are my birds,
that's Freckles and Freedom - [Broomfield] Freckles and Freedom. - [Dennis] Um-hm. - [Broomfield] This is a picture of Dennis who used to be a cross-dresser. Dennis looked at his only picture of his time in the woods with Aileen. - It was kind of a mess
around, (indistinct) In fact, that police took this picture. That's how I got it. Yeah. I don't know if you can see. - [Broomfield] What's it of? - Well, this was when
they were subdividing. They threw all the stumps
over in one section. And these were all made with stumps with straw packed in around. This is where I slept and it was just long enough
to get in there and sleep. - [Broomfield] And so Aileen
would come and visit you. - Yeah, every now and then she'd find one of my camps and come. In fact, the last camp I
was at when Aileen found me was what we called the little round lake, It was way down at the bottom of a gully. And it was round. And I had a piece of plywood
that somebody had left there. And I just made a
lean-to with two posts to and put that up on it. That was the last place, in fact, Aileen, last camp she'd come
that I had was that one. - [Broomfield] This is a picture of Chief, the local pedophile. He's thought to be the
father of Aileen's child. Chief later committed suicide. It was like this bit of a
strange old man, wasn't he? - Kind of. Yeah. A lot of people thought he was. But they were a gathering
place there for kids because they had kids from everywhere that came there all the time. And I remember when I was a little, see, Chief would want to pick kids up and put them on his lap and he'd talk and tell
them about this and that. And I never would allow it because I just, he kind of freaked me a little bit. I can remember one time
he had some chicken eggs, cause he had chickens and
all this kind of thing. And he'd pick them up open
when they were ready to hatch and I couldn't stand it, him doing that. - [Broomfield] He'd pick them open? - He would pick the shells open as they were trying to come through. He would pick them open
and it would be too early for 'em still, you know, cause - [Broomfield] And they died. - A lot of times they would, they weren't really ready
to come out of there yet. They wouldn't live. - They're still there. - Michelle drove us to Aileen's old home. They grew up as Vietnam was ending and drugs were everywhere. - [Michelle] Aileen's
house is right over there. You want to go by it? - [Broomfield] Yeah.
- Okay. I'll take you by it. This was Mark Ferrin's house. We are all connected together. We all used to hang in the neighborhood. You know, all the kids packed together. This was Terry Cox's house right here. She used to do a lot of
drugs with (beep beep) who lived in this little white one. This is Aileen's house right here. This is it. - [Broomfield] That's it there. - [Michelle] That's it. This is her house. - [Broomfield] And when you
saw her being beaten where - [Michelle] That door right there, I was in front of that door. See, they've redid the house since then. But that room in the
very back is her bedroom, not the first one, but
the one in the back. - [Broomfield] And that's
where she was being. - [Michelle] Yeah. This one, the second window. And she see how low they are? She's, we, she used to walk,
climb right out of them. If somebody sees us in here
and they will come out, raise hell because I, Corey was with me when that happened last time. And (beep beep) and (beep beep beep) lived right here and
they were druggies also. We used to hang together and go over there and smoke pot and do whatnot. Get into all kinds of shit. - [Broomfield] But lots
of different drugs? - Yes. - Lots of pills actually - [Broomfield] Pills? - LSD, mescaline, bladder acid. (techno space music plays) - [Broomfield] Aileen,
age 16, left Michigan and traveled down here to Florida, looking for sun and friends. She was young and pretty,
earning good money as a hooker, but with a violent temper
and soon in trouble. She knocked one man
out with a beer bottle, another with a billiard ball. She particularly liked it
here, near Daytona Beach. This is one of the motels, the Fairview, where she frequently stayed. It was all so new and exciting. Just down the road is
The Last Resort Biker Bar where Aileen liked to hang out. She was allegedly great
friends with The Human Bomb. - [Announcer] Three two, one (crowd cheers) - [Broomfield] How do you feel? - Real dizzy right now. - [Broomfield] Did you know Lee well? - Yeah. Can I talk to
y'all in a few minutes. I'm going to walk this off. - [Broomfield] After Keith, her brother, died of cancer age 21, Aileen surprised everyone by
marrying this man, Lewis Fell, who was 76 years old and president of the Keystone Coal Company. But after only a month, Lewis
filed restraining charges after Aileen beat Lewis
with his own walking stick. In her late twenties,
Aileen gave up on men and started dating women. Here's Tyria who became Aileen's family. They lived together for over three years. This was one of the homes they had. Aileen saw herself as a kind
of Bonnie and Clyde character on the run with her lover, Tyria. Aileen and Tyria's favorite
pastime was drinking beer and firing their pistols in the woods. Aileen got books on being a survivalist. She wanted Tyria all to herself. Tyria described Aileen as a fantasist who became jealous and possessive and who could be violent and frightening. In the end, Tyria ran off as
the police were closing in. In loneliness and desperation
Aileen ended up with this man, Dick Mills. - This is that paper you're talking about. - [Broomfield] Yeah, and it's called My Sex Romps with Kinky Mankiller. Dick had sold his story
to the news of the world. - All I want to know is who's
the best lawyer out there, man, to sue them for this trash. - [Broomfield] Can I
- I never talked that shit. - [Broomfield] I can quote you a bit. If you said this right? You were lying in bed one
night when she started talking about her favorite sexual fantasies. She said she often got turned on by mentioning she had a
black hood over her head, and was tied to a tree in a forest. Then a guy would come out, rape her and shoot her in the head. She said the actual killing
would make her climax. I was real sickened by what she said. - Wrong. Wrong. There's partial truth to that. But most of that, I don't
know where it came from or who got it or nothing about it. And you can check any film
anywhere in the country or anybody that's got it. And I've never said that. Okay. It goes along the lines of, she told me one time that the idea was that she'd like to lay in bed
out in the middle of forest, the woods or somewhere in
the mountains or something have a hood over her head or something. And somebody called in
through the window, there was, no, they had the hood on or something and would rape her this
and that kind a shit. And she liked that. As far as all these other
things go pertaining to her. - [Broomfield] Did you get any
feeling that she hated men or - No, I just got the
feeling she's what she was, a dyke, except I didn't
know she was a killer. There's no way I could know that. - [Broomfield] Could you tell that when you made love to her or what? - No, not particularly. She just probably liked it either way. Whatever came along. Didn't really seem to matter much. It's just another bad
experience, I'm sure, for both of us. - [Broomfield] This is Aileen when first charged with the murders. It was just after the phone
conversations with Tyria that had led her to confess. What Aileen didn't know was
that Tyria herself was involved in movie discussions involving
Florida State Police and production companies in Hollywood. They were selling her story. The story of America's
first female serial killer. - [Judge 3] Do you understand
the nature of the charges? - Yes I do, sir. - [Judge 3] Do you wish to
be represented by counsel? - Yes I do. - [Judge 3] Can you afford
to hire an attorney? - No, sir.
- [Judge 3] Do you work? - No. I'm in jail, how can I work? - [Judge 3] Obviously not working now, but how long has it been
since you last worked? - Oh, about, oh, 84, possibly. - [Judge 3] You haven't
worked in six or seven years? How do you support yourself? - I was a professional call girl. - [Broomfield] When Sergeant Brian Jarvis, who is now a Police
Chief in New York State, objected to this movie discussions, he was taken off the Wuornos case. - Right. I was actually transferred back into the, the patrol division. It had followed a month
of continual harassment on the job in the current
position I was in. Which ultimately started when
Captain Beneger had realized that I found out about their
plan to work with Tyria Moore in obtaining a movie rights package. - [Broomfield] The state attorney's report found that three of
Jarvis's fellow officers, Captain Beneger, Sergeant
Munster, Major Dan Henry were involved in movie
discussions with Tyria Moore after Aileen's arrest. - Yeah, ultimately when
the, when the arrest came, Lee Wuornos was charged with the murder and Tyria Moore was not
charged with anything, but she was made a, a state's witness and she was working with
these fellow officers on obtaining a movie rights. - [Broomfield] This note was then pinned under Sergeant Jarvis's back
door and his home burgled. - Less than a month
later on November 25th, my wife had gone out to the
post office and the store during the daylight hours, like 10:00 in the morning. When she came home, the
house had been broken into. The doors where jar. She went up to my office
and all of the files on the Wuornos case on the, the investigators and
all the information I had had been trashed. Nothing else had been
touched in the house. - [Reporter 2] How do you feel, Aileen? - Bust these crooked cops
and their conspiracy, please. - [Reporter 2] Are you afraid, Aileen? - I'm innocent. - [Broomfield] Aileen
was right about the cops and their movie deals. But in her paranoia, she also believed the police had known
about the first murder, but allowed her to become a serial killer because then they'd get more
money for their film deals. Aileen's lawyers are
challenging the execution on the grounds of her mental competence, not that executing insane
people seems to be a problem. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled
it was not unconstitutional to execute the mentally impaired. Aileen's paranoid delusions have gotten much worse on death row. She now believes her
mind is being controlled by radio waves, beamed into her cell. - Aileen Wuornos says
her food is being tainted and she's being threatened with rape. - CBS4's Joan Murray is
live in Fort Lauderdale with the story, Joan. - Well now she has written a
25 page letter where she names, names, names security, or rather guards at the prison
where she was being held in Pembroke Pines, accusing them of harassing her
while she awaits execution. - And I need some, an attorney
like a private attorney to oversee my wellbeing
until my execution. Maybe that would keep
things kind of in line. Cause there's a lot
illegal illness going on. - [Broomfield] It's actually pretty hard to help Aileen who by
now, not surprisingly, doesn't trust anyone. And she's threatening to fire her lawyer if he continues to try
to fight the execution. Don told Aileen about our visit to Troy and Aileen asked for the opportunity to put the record straight
about her childhood. - [Correction Officer] All right. Yep. Will you let me know when she is? Okay. You don't have any secret
cameras on your belt, do you? - [Broomfield] Well, no. I
just have this rather large one right here. (door buzzes) (inmates talking in the distance) - [Broomfield] Hello. (Aileen sings) - Hey, how are you doing? Good to see you. - [Broomfield] It's good to see you. - Hi Nick. - [Broomfield] Hi. How are you? (Wuornos laughs) - I'm doing all right. How you doing? - [Broomfield] Good. Check out the orange shirt. - [Broomfield] It wasn't
orange, was it orange before? - No, they changed it. It was there. They got this new thing that to wear the orange shirt
out for rec or wherever, whenever you get out of your cell. Like, like death row has never escaped. Nobody on death row has
ever escaped, right? And they're acting like we're
escape risks or something. - [Broomfield] What's it like
being in here all the time? - What's it like being in here? Well, here it's okay. It's all right. But you know, you have your problems with some staff don't
like you (indistinct) You're a serial killer,
you know, bears and stuff. And so they, you know, some
staff won't treat you right because who you are. - [Broomfield] Do you have any friends? - You can't can be in
control of everybody. - [Broomfield] Have you got
any friends here at all? - No, I stick to myself. I just stick in, in the cell with myself. I don't even care about going outdoors. There's nothing out there.
I don't smoke anymore. So - [Broomfield] So what's your
day like how does it start? - I spend 24/7 in the cell
watching TV, reading the Bible, writing letters to Dawn, sitting around doing a lot
of thinking, preparing, a memory, going back in time, memory of all, everything I've been through in my life. And then just preparing for my death. Get all the tears out of me and stuff so on cry and such jazz, you know? Cause it is going to be a
little bit tough when I go. Huh? - [Broomfield] Getting
all the tears out of you. - Yeah. Because I just don't want
me in the execution chamber crying my eyes out and I'm not going to. I'm going to tough it
out as tough as I can. Just lay on the table, give everybody a little smile
and close my eyes and go. - [Broomfield] With Richard Mallory, he was the first that you killed. - Um-hm - [Broomfield] Did he abuse you or not? Because in the court
you said that, you know. - Oh, I, see I'm not going to
go into the-- wait a minute. Ow No, I won't go in, I
won't go into the murder. I won't go into murders if it was self-defense or not. I'm not going into any of the murders. Whether or not they died
in self-defense or what? I'm not going to say.
I'm not saying nothing. My concern, the only
reason I'm doing interviews for anybody or anything, my concern is there's you
got law enforcement out there allowing people to die. You got those 50 men in Canada. I mean, it was 50 women
in Canada that died. I'm sure the cops knew who the guy was. They're letting them kill. They want to turn them
into high profile cases for books and movies. - [Broomfield] Well, what was it? So what was it? I wondered how Aileen herself
viewed her childhood in Troy. - Yeah, Troy's all right. Oh, and I want to straighten
out something, in it. See, hey Nick, I got to
get this straightened out. See the cops lied about my family. Jackie, Drew and them, they
all lied about my family. - [Broomfield] Well, how did
they lie about your family? - Because see, okay, now I got, see, I got this documentation. I gotta square some stuff up. - [Broomfield] Okay, so
tell me about your family. - Okay. The truth about my family is this. My dad was so straight and so clean, He wouldn't even wear a, take
his shirt off to mow the lawn. He did not believe in cussing. He did not believe in, in long hair and mini skirts and stuff. He was really straight, really decent. And so was my mom. My mom hated swearing in the house. If you swore you said one swear word, you had a whole bar of
lava soap in your mouth. So I came from a real
clean and decent family. - [Broomfield] But why
then did you get thrown out after the birth? - See, after my mom
died, after my mom died, my dad got pissed. He's like, okay, this is
the last straw, you know? I think you are at a cause
of mom's death because, because she had physical problems
because of all the stress and the pain and the
suffering and everything. And what I'm going through as a wild kid, is pissing him off. I mean, he thinks that
that killed her as well, induced her death. And so he's pissed off. He doesn't want me home anymore. - [Broomfield] How did it
feel like having to live in cars and in other people's houses? - It was living hell. That's
why I went to Florida. - [Broomfield] Living hell. - Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know,
sleeping in the snow. I mean sleeping in snowy
weather in a vehicle on cinder blocks at Richie's house. Sleeping with no blanket, I think I had one blanket and one pillow. It's ice cold outside. That's when I said, well, I gotta go. I gotta go down to
Florida or something now. Cause I was sleeping in the snow. Out in the woods, sleeping
on the ground, in the snow. - [Broomfield] You must've been frozen. - I was frozen, man, yeah. I still got marks. My toes are blue to this day, bottom of my feet are blue. This probably why I even got
my hands like this today. I don't know. My hands hurt. As you can see they're, like
they're frostbit looking. - [Broomfield] And how
were the other kids there? - How the other kids they're
all living in their houses. (Aileen laughs) While I was out on the streets,
but that's all right, man, because see, I lived through it. I survived. I went down to Florida. Then I started trekking all over United States of American stuff. - [Broomfield] Aileen, let
me ask you one question. Do you think if you hadn't
had to leave your home and sleep in the cars and stuff, it would have worked out differently. - Now if I do my life all over again, that came from background of
a family that was right on, where my I made my family was right on, when I was thinking that I meant, as far as my mom not dying,
my dad not freaking out in us. If I could do it all over
again, my family died too young. I had to hit the road
and I came from a family that was supportive, we
didn't have split system, half sister and brother
stuff and all that. It was all true blood, real blood and everything was financially stable. And everybody was really tight. I would have became, more than likely, an outstanding citizen of America, who would, who would have
either been an archeologist, a paramedic, a police officer,
a fire department gal, or undercover worker for DEA or, did I say archeology, or oh, or a missionary because I believe in God. But I'm not Christian freak. - [Broomfield] So you think it would've - So scrub missionary because I'm just, I'm just thinking what you know, I would have came from a decent, I would have done it
real decent and stuff. - [Broomfield] Let me ask you something. What, what do you think was
the single most happy time in your life? What, what do you think
you've enjoyed most? - Nick I've been through so much hell. I can't even think of
something there right now. And I'm so burning fucking
mad about how I'm being, I got to wait for my execution. I want to get in the fucking
chamber tomorrow and leave. And then they play, since, since I waved off, I've had nothin' but psychological and physical fucking problems, playing with it because I'm
on hold with my execution. I'm so fucking mad, I can't see straight. And they're just daring me to kill again. They got me pissed. United States Supreme Court, you fucking I'm telling you, man, you mother-fuckers keep fucking with my goddamn execution there's going to be bloodshed. I'm sick of this. Get that fucking warrant signed. (door clangs) - [Broomfield] Aileen waited until she thought we weren't filming to talk about the murders. - [Wuornos] I can't do it. I would never be able to handle
a life sentence or anything. And then they've said other
things that are really crazy. They do crazy things to people
while they're incarcerated. I'd never be able to handle it. So I'm going for the death. I have to cause they're too evil. They're too evil to be incarcerated. And they're too evil on the cases. They're so corrupt, it's not funny. So I got to go down. I have to. That's why I can't say
nothing about self-defense on tape or anything. - But, was it self-defense? - [Wuornos] Huh? - Was it self-defense? - [Wuornos] What? - Was it self-defense? - [Wuornos] What? - Was it self-defense? - Yes, but I can't tell anybody. Never. I have to go down to the execution. They're too corrupt. They, they, they stick together, hand over fist, hand in glove, man. - [Broomfield] So it was self-defense? - [Wuornos] Let's see, hand, hand over fist friend in gloves. - [Broomfield] So was,
was Mallory self-defense? - [Wuornos] Yeah. So were was some others, but there's nothing I can do about All they do is give me
an overturned sentence. They would never do me righteous. You see what I'm saying,
never do me right. They'll only fuck me over some more so I can only go to the death. (doors bang) (radios crackle) You know I'm gonna always
remember you and love you. - [Broomfield] Yeah, yeah. - [Wuornos] I love you so much,
man. Take care of yourself. - [Broomfield] All right. - [Wuornos] Nice meeting you. - [Social Worker] Nice
to meet you. Take care. - [Broomfield] Bye-bye, Lee. Bye. - [Wuornos] See you later. - [Broomfield] Six months later,
this announcement was made. - [Reporter 2] Governor Jeb
Bush signs death warrants scheduling the executions. 44 year old Aileen Wuornos
is one of the nation's first known female serial killers. She will be executed October
9th for the murders of six men. Wuornos has dropped all of her appeals. - I did it because I
believe in the death penalty and I have a duty to implement the law and a great majority of Floridians want their governor to do this. - [Broomfield] Jeb Bush
is running for reelection on a law and order, pro
death penalty ticket. Aileen's execution date
for October the ninth fits in perfectly, a month
before these elections. Brad Thomas, Jeb Bush's political advisor was reported as saying, we
want to become more like Texas. Bring in the witnesses,
put them on a gunny and let's rock and roll. (creepy music plays) - [Broomfield] We're driving
to meet Diane Wuornos, Aileen's biological mother. They haven't laid eyes on
each other for 25 years. This is Calumet, a copper mining town on Michigan's upper peninsula. The Wuornos family originally
came here as immigrants from Oulu in Finland
to work down the mines. - Okay. Let me fix my pillow again. Okay. I'm wanna tell you. I'm probably going to cry a little. I want to tell you
something about her birth. - [Broomfield] Okay. - She was a frank breech birth. That means bottom first and a breech birth is very dangerous and that's feet first and a
frank breech, bottom first, is really very bad. The doctor even called in
other people to watch it because it was so unusual. But I thought maybe that she
got some kind of brain damage during that birth. - [Broomfield] Yeah. - And they may have caused,
while she's mentally competent, It may have caused her problems. What does Aileen think
about what caused her to act like that? - [Broomfield] What originally she said she did it in self-defense and then she said she just needed the money, and She says that if she, you know, come from a home that wasn't split and. - Oh, because her, her father
and me getting in divorce. - - [Broomfield] I, she didn't say that. But I think, I think she's confused because she, on the one hand says, she says it had nothing
to do with her childhood. But then on the other hand, she was sleeping out in the snow for a while and living in the woods. - She was sleeping in the
snow and living in the woods? - [Broomfield] Immediately
after she had the baby. - I know nothing about that. I never heard Barry tell me that. - [Broomfield] After she
had the baby, she couldn't, she couldn't move back into
the house with your father. - Yeah. - [Broomfield] Then she
was living in the woods, in the snow. - Did an agency find her
and take, take care of her? - [Broomfield] No. And then she ended up hitchhiking around. - Which she liked. Do you know the exact
date of the execution? - [Broomfield] I think it's soon. - Okay. - [Broomfield] I think it's very soon. - I think I'll rest better. (train whistle blows) - [Broomfield] As we were leaving, Diane asked for Aileen's forgiveness. I heard Aileen just fired her lawyer. I drove to Stark, Florida
where the execution will happen and to meet Dawn who's doing
the funeral arrangements. So what does Aileen want to
wear, again, for the execution? - A black Harley-Davis t-shirt with wings because she believes
she's earned her wings. Which she has. Pair of jeans, a pair of boots with corner toes and a military belt. I think that's it actually. She might have something else on that. I don't know, probably a
leather jacket if I know Aileen. Don't know if she can or not, but. - [Broomfield] What other
wishes did she make. - You mean to be afterwards, to be cremated and come home to my house, be around the people that love her. Why would she want to stay in Florida? She'd come home to Michigan. - [Broomfield] Aileen's ex
lawyer made a last minute plea to stop the execution. But Jeb Bush was not going to be stopped. - Based on his concerns. We're going to ask three
psychiatrists to analyze her, to make sure that she's
fit for the execution, which is a duty that I have
and a intended to do it. - [Broomfield] Jeb order
to stay of execution. But guess what? His psychiatrists examined
Aileen for just 15 minutes and then gave the thumbs up to go ahead. - [Laurie] Lynn Gordon
is in our Newsplex now with the latest details, Lynn? - Laurie, we have just
learned that Governor Jeb Bush has lifted the stay of execution for serial killer Aileen Wuornos. She has been found to
be mentally competent. That means she will be
executed next Wednesday. (inmates yelling in the distance) - [Broomfield] Aileen's
given up the opportunity to do a mass press conference and has asked me to do her last interview. I'm sure that's because she wants me to communicate her ideas about what she calls the crooked cops. The last interview, dumb
rules, like I've got to stand behind this rope. There'd be 15 guards, including
the warden in attendance. And Aileen, for no good reason, will wear shackles
throughout the interview. She on her way? - Pardon? - [Broomfield] Is she on her way? - Not yet. - [Broomfield] It's been
proven that the death penalty is absolutely no deterrent. States without the death penalty, in fact, have lower murder rates. (buzzer sounds) (buzzer sounds) (buzzer sounds) - [Broomfield] Hi Aileen. Hi. - You know, I already told you everything. So, you know, you just go
ahead and ask me questions and if I want to answer
them, I'll answer them, okay? - [Broomfield] Okay. So, so I, I guess, you know, I was just wondering how
you're going to be, you know, at 9:30 tomorrow morning,
are you prepared? - I'm prepared. I'm all right. I'm all right with it. - [Broomfield] How - I'm all right with it, but like I said, remember and tell, let
them know that I know that the cops knew who I was
after Richard Mallory died. I left prints everywhere
and they covered it up. And let me kill the rest of those guys to turn me into a serial killer. I know they did because I was
no professional serial killer or anything I don't, murderer or whatever you want to call it, you know. I wasn't special I was - [Broomfield] Aileen, how, how - Did some sloppy work, you
know, and I left prints. - [Broomfield] Aileen, how
have you prepared yourself for tomorrow morning? - I'm all right with it. I'm ready to go. Hey, I was tortured at BCI. They had, they had the
intercom on in the room and they kept lying that it wasn't on. And they were using sonic
pressure on my head since 1997. - [Broomfield] Sonic pressure? - And every time I was
trying to write something, they, and I think they had
some kind of eye in the cell, I'm not sure, but every time
I started writing something, it went up higher. So I'm thinking they
probably had the TV rigged. The TV or the mirror,
something was rigged. They got a huge satellite on the compound. After they put the huge
satellite on the compound it could have been either
rigged to the TV set or the mirror or something. Cause electrician, when he
puts a mirror on the wall, he said, doesn't that look
like computer, the back of it. And he stuck to the wall. - [Broomfield] And do you,
what did that affect your mind, do you think? - Huh? - [Broomfield] Did that
affect your mind in some way, the sonic - It was crushing my head and they were using sonic
pressure continually. Then when I had three meetings
with Miss Villacorda on it, every meeting I had, she
increased the pressure of the volume of the com, increased the harassment on the floor, increased the trays being inedible, just increased every bit of my complaints and trashed all grievances. They're trying to make it look like I was crazy at all times, rig up the room with torture, if I said anything about their whole, I think their whole plan
was trying to make it look like I was totally crazy. And so nobody would believe
anything I had to say about anything and then
drive me there if they could. I suffered so bad. I was really struggling to survive. Had a lot of trays that were attempted murder and everything. I had to wash all my food off. And then one day I didn't wash my food off and I was sick for three
weeks, almost died. - [Broomfield] But you're okay now. - I'm okay. I'm okay. God is going to be there. Jesus Christ is going to be there. All the angels and
everything and you know, whatever whatever's on the beyond. I think it's going to
be more like Star Trek beaming me up into a space vehicle, man. Then I move on, recolonize to
another planet or whatever, but it's, whatever's the beyond, I know it's going to be good
because I didn't do anything as wrong as they said. I did the right thing and I
saved a lot of people's butts from getting hurt and raped and killed to. - [Broomfield] So are you
saying that you killed in self-defense or in cold-blood? What are you cause you
you've changed your story. I'm just trying to. - What are you talking about? Changed the story of what? - [Broomfield] About whether
it was self-defense or not. - I'm not going to say, I'm not gonna get into
depth about my cases, Nick. I'm on my way to the
chamber. Nothing stopping it. You can believe it or you
don't have to believe it. That's up to you, man. Put a big question mark on your film. - [Broomfield] Just before we came here, we met with your, with your mother, Diane. - You met with my brother
and Diana, I could give a-- - [Broomfield] Your mother, - Oh my mother. My mother, Diane, let
me tell you something. She plopped me out of her belly, left me with my grandparents
and we never knew her. So tell that damn whore,
I could give a fuck if she even had me. She had me and left to Texas and my mom, my dad, Barry, Keith, Laurie, all of us never saw her ever again. Except at funerals, my mom's
funeral, my dad's funeral, my brother's funeral. And if she's at mine probably be spitting on her. I could care less. I don't give a damn about that whore. - [Broomfield] Well
she asked to, she, she, - Don't know her. I never even knew her. - [Broomfield] She asked
you for your forgiveness. - She can go to hell. She doesn't have any of my forgiveness. I don't, I don't even know her. Don't wanna know her. My only interview concerns are
about cops letting me kill. So if you don't ask me about that, I'm going to cut this interview. Ask me about the cops. - [Broomfield] I mean, what more is to What more is there to say about the cops? What, what more do you
want to say about the cops? - A lot of stuff. Did you know that they were
surveilling me before I killed? And then I knew it, and that was covered up. Did you know there was
helicopters dropping down from the sky? Deputy sheriff with decoys picking me up four or five months before my arrest. It was covered up. - [Broomfield] But nonetheless, - Nobody ever asked me these questions. - [Broomfield] Whether the
cops were following you or not, Aileen, - Oh, whether the cops are following me or not, Aileen, what? - [Broomfield] Okay, okay, let's say, let's say the cops were following you. - Yeah. - [Broomfield] Let's say
they were following you. - Uh-huh. - [Broomfield] And they did everything that you're saying they did. - Uh-huh. - [Broomfield] Nonetheless,
you killed seven men. - Yeah, I sure did. - [Broomfield] I am
asking you what got you to kill the seven men. - And I'm telling you because the cops let me
keep killing them, Nick, don't you get it? - [Broomfield] Not everybody
is killing seven people. So there must've been something in you that was getting you to do that. - And you are lost, Nick. I was a hitchhiking hooker. - [Broomfield] Right. - Running into trouble. I shoot, shoot the guy
if I ran into trouble, physical trouble, the cops knew it. When the physical trouble came along, let him, let her clean the streets. And then we'll pull her in. That's why. - [Broomfield] But how
come there was so much physical trouble. And just
because it was all in one year. It's seven people in one year. - Oh well, oh well. - [Broomfield] But why not say now. - Because I'm out of
retaliation for taking my life like this and getting rich
off it all these years and (indistinct) pathological lying. Yeah, thanks a lot. I lost my fucking life because of it. Couldn't even get a fair trial. Couldn't even get a fair
investigation or nothing. Couldn't even have my pills right. You sabotaged my ass, society
and the cops and the system, a raped woman got executed and was used for books
and movies and shit, ladder climbs, reelection,
everything else. I got a big finger in all your faces. Thanks a lot. You're inhuman. You're an inhumane bunch of fucking living bastards and bitches. And you're going to get
your asses nuked in the end. And pretty soon it's coming. 2019 Iraq supposed to hit you anyhow. You're all going to get nuked. You don't take fucking
human life like this and just sabotage and rip it apart like Jesus on the cross and say, thanks a lot for all
the fucking money I made off of ya. And not care about a human being and the truth being told. Now I know what Jesus was going through. They've been trying to tell the truth and I keep getting it stepped on, concerned about if I was raped. If I I'm not giving you
my book and movie info, I'm giving you info for
investigations and stuff. And that's it. We're going to have to
cut this interview, Nick. I'm not going to go into any more detail. I'm leaving. I'm glad. Thanks a lost society
for railroading my ass. Okay, let's go. Dirty son of a bitches, took a raped woman and sent her to, well,
you sent her to God, but you're going to get
your nuke someday soon. - [Broomfield] Aileen,
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. - Tell society I said thanks a lot. - [Broomfield] It was
really pretty incredible that Aileen had just sailed
through the psychiatric tests the day before. It makes you wonder what you
would have to do to fail. Later that night, Dawn met
Aileen for her last meal, Kentucky Fried Chicken and french fries. She was limited to a $20 budget. - She's sorry, Nick, that she's, She didn't give you the finger. She gave the media the finger and then the attorneys the finger. She didn't give you the finger. And she knew if she said much more, that it could make it make a difference on her execution tomorrow. So she just decided not to. Okay? - [Broomfield] Well, they
thought, she thought, they might not execute her if she said - Yeah, she's afraid. She's afraid of something
jeopardizing her ex you know, execution in the morning. - [Security] Keep going,
ma'am. Don't stop. (reporters talking softly) - At eight o'clock, time ticking away for serial killer Aileen Wuornos. - Her date with death, Seth, we're about 90 minutes from now. Seven's Patrick Frazier is live in Rayford as her sentence is
about to be carried out. Good morning, Patrick. - Christine, in an hour
and a half, exactly, Aileen Wuornos will be injected with a poison. Within about two minutes she
will begin to stop breathing. Now its tough to say who will
be happier, that she is dying, the families of the victims
she brutally murdered or Aileen Wuornos. - We did wake her up at five 30. She requested a towel and washcloth to wash her face and freshen up. And she is very calm this morning. Not, not as talkative as
she has been in the past. - [Broomfield] It was hoped
Aileen would confess all to a priest before execution, but she remained angry and
defiant to the very end. Aileen sent the priest packing and then knelt down and
prayed for her victims, believing they might be too
evil to be accepted by God. - Talk about dying and - [Broomfield] She didn't
talk about dying at all. - [Woman Reporter] What about remorse? And it was all she wanted to
do is to talk about the police. And I, I, you know, I just formed the impression
that here was somebody who is, has obviously lost her mind, has totally lost touch with reality and we're executing a person who's mad. And I don't really know what kind of message that that gives. I find it very disturbing. - [Official] And we watched her skin turn from less of a pale flesh color to a grayish blue tone. - Is everybody ready? At 9:47 this morning, the case of the State of
Florida vs. Aileen Wuornos was carried out at Florida State Prison in a very professional and humane manner. During Aileen Wuornos's brief,
one minute final statement, she alluded to the fact of that she would be sailing
away with The Rock. She'll be back with Jesus Christ like on Independence Day, on June 6th, just like the movie on the big mothership. I'll be back. I'll be back. (upbeat music plays) ♪ I've walked these streets ♪ ♪ A virtual stage ♪ ♪ It seemed to me ♪ ♪ Make up on their faces ♪ ♪ Actors took their places ♪ ♪ Next to me ♪ ♪ I have walked these streets ♪ ♪ In a carnival of sights to see ♪ ♪ All the cheap thrill seekers ♪ ♪ Vendors and the dealers ♪ ♪ They crowded around me ♪ ♪ Have I been blind? ♪ ♪ Have I been lost? ♪ ♪ Inside myself ♪ ♪ And my own mind ♪ ♪ Hypnotized ♪ ♪ Mesmerized ♪ ♪ By what my eyes have seen? ♪ ♪ I've walked these streets ♪ ♪ In a spectacle of wealth and poverty ♪ ♪ In the diamond markets ♪ ♪ The scarlet welcome carpet ♪ ♪ That they just rolled out for me ♪ ♪ Have I been wrong ♪ ♪ Have I been wise? ♪ ♪ To shut my eyes ♪ ♪ And play along ♪ ♪ Hypnotized ♪ ♪ Paralyzed ♪ ♪ By what my eyes have found ♪ ♪ By what my eyes have seen ♪ ♪ What have they seen ♪
From 2003, not 2021. IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364930/
This movie will mess you up.
I can't find the right word to describe her personality. But i do wonder what her life would have been like if she wasn't abused, abandoned, and sexualized at such a young age. She was doomed from birth, the documentary even said its possible that her grandfather was her biological father.
What's up, with, the commas?
She kinda looks like Charlize Theron.
She was obviously mentally challenged and broken, she should have been put in a mental institution.
This is a legendary documentary. Nick Broomfield is one of the best ever.
Using commas like they are about to go out of fashion.
Always loved nick Brookfield’s - this was a bit much to watch