Aileen Wuornos - Monster

Horzepa: So you continued to kill these men to cover up when you… when you shot these men. Mallory was the first. Is that correct?

Munster: OK. You continued… you had to go ahead and kill these men so that they couldn’t testify against you and have it all backtracked? From body to body then?

Wuornos: Oh, no, I didn’t even think of that either. I… I shot them because it was like to me, a self-defending thing because I felt that if I didn’t shoot them and I didn’t kill them, first of all, if they survived, my ass would be getting in trouble for attempted murder, so I’m up shit’s creek on that one anyway, and… and… and if I didn’t and if… and if I didn’t kill them, you know, of course, I mean I had to kill them… or it’s retaliation, too. It’s like, you bastards. You were going to… you were going to hurt me.

Horzepa: So now I’m going to hurt you.

Wuornos: Yeah. Mmm… mmm.

Munster: Yeah, all… all of these guys that you shot, they seem to be older guys. Over the age of 40. What is that?

Wuornos: Because all of the guys that I dealt with were that age. Every… every guy.

Munster: You were dead wood for the younger guys?

Wuornos: No. Every guy I dealt with on the road was anywhere from… let’s see… 37 and up.

Horzepa: Was that your decision? I mean, like the…

Wuornos: Yeah. Because I…

Horzepa: Younger guy in his twenties would stop…

Wuornos: Yeah, because, see, I don’t do drugs or anything and I wanted to deal with people who didn’t do drugs. I was looking for clean and decent people. But, like I say, it just happened that the last… this following year, that I kept meeting guys that were turning out to be ugly guys… to me. That they were… fighting.

For three hours, Lee talked and talked, then she talked some more, despite the continuing advice from her attorney who effectively spelled it out to his client that she was putting her head in a noose. Lee’s mitigation was that she had been the wronged person. A simple hooker trying to earn a fast buck, her victims had used her, treated her badly or tried to have sex without payment. Her only remorse appeared to be directed towards Tyria, the lover she had failed. She shed not a tear for the incalculable suffering she had caused to her victims and their next of kin. She wanted to ‘make it good with God’ before she died; this would soon change as the months passed inexorably by during which Aileen Wuornos would metamorphose into the true monster that she really was. But, for now, with attentive, seemingly understanding police officers hanging on her every word, Lee continued to spill the beans.

Larry Horzepa now turned his attention to the property Lee had stolen from her dead victims.

Horzepa: Is there any property that you would have collected from these victims that may be stashed somewhere? You might have put it in the woods or behind an abandoned house or anything like that?

Wuornos: No. Uh uh. I just flung them out the window as I’m driving or… or stopped and threw them and stuff like that. I couldn’t even tell you where because they were way out in the country somewhere where I didn’t even know sometimes where I was.

Horzepa: There’s something I forgot to ask you. There’s another guy that’s missing that we haven’t found. A guy that worked for the Kennedy Space Center. A guy that worked for the Kennedy Space Center and there was a white Oldsmobile and the car was parked in Orange County off of Semoran and 436. The guy had glasses on and this would have been right around the HRS guy’s car [Charles Humphreys].

Wuornos: Uh… Munster: It was a white car and he was driving from Titusville to Atlanta… it was a white two-door car…

Wuornos: No, I don’t recall anything like that.

Munster: Do you have a picture of him, Larry?

Wuornos: Yeah, yeah, if you got a picture of him…

Horzepa: What was the name on that?

Munster: Reid. Curtis Reid.

Wuornos: Curtis Reid. I don’t know that one. I don’t remember anybody like that. Munster: He worked at the Kennedy Space Center and he had a Space Center emblem on his windshield of his rear window and someone scraped it off. He had a lot of money. He just cashed his pay cheque. You might have had…

Wuornos: I never got anybody that had a lot of money.

Munster: He might have had a thousand dollars, something like that.

Wuornos: Oh, I never got anything like that. Uh uh.

Horzepa: No, I have a flyer of the emblem. I don’t have that one.

Wuornos: I don’t recall anything like that because I never… I never got a lot of money on it. The only money I got, the most was that one that I didn’t know was a missionary dude, was like $400 [Peter Siems].

Having settled this matter, Bruce Munster started asking about the various alibis Lee had used.

Munster: Who’s Susan Blahovec?

Wuornos: Oh, well, that’s another fake ID I had.

Munster: How’d you get that one?

Wuornos: Oh, Lord, let’s see, how did I get… oh, this guy in the Keys had a birth certificate and he told me to use it for… because I had a suspended driver’s licence and he told me I could use that ID. Oh… because… and I had… I think I had a… that forgery warrant was at that time, I think. I had that on me. And he told me I could use this ID, that it was his wife’s ID, that she had never… he hated his wife, big time. And that I could… she’s never been in trouble and that I could turn that birth certificate and licence, but you don’t get into trouble with it, you know, just use it for driving and stuff, so I did.

Munster: All right. I think that’s…

Wuornos: How in the world did you find out about Susan Blahovec now?

Munster: Oh…

Wuornos: And did I put my name on a motel as that or something?

Munster: No. You got some tickets with it.

Wuornos: Oh, OK, I remember that. All right.

Munster: I know about the time in 1974, you were arrested under the name of Sandra Beatrice Kretch.

Wuornos: Yeah.

Munster: Your neighbour.

Wuornos: Yeah. I was… I was young and she was 33 or something and the judge couldn’t… I spent ten days in jail for that one. She got away with having to go to jail on her damn ticket.

Munster: How far did you go in high school?

Wuornos: Tenth and a half grade.

Munster: Why’d you quit?

Wuornos: Because my mother died and my father wouldn’t let me stay at home and I was living out on the street. I just want… to know that I hope to God, that you guys do understand that Ty is not involved with this. She doesn’t know. She thought that I had these cars rented or… or borrowed them and all this jazz, and she wasn’t too… too aware of what I was doing. I mean, she didn’t know… exactly what was happening. I mean I… when I’d get drunk I’d say shit from the top of my head just to try to be a bad ass, because I was drunk. And… but she didn’t have anything to do with these murders. She didn’t have anything to do with anything. She just worked, ate, slept, stayed at home, went to volleyball practice and was just a good gal… I’ve dealt with a hundred thousand guys. But these guys are the only guys that gave me a problem and they started giving me a problem just this year… the year that went by. So I, at the same time I was staying with some guy and I noticed that he had some guns and I ripped off his .22, a nine-shot deal… So when I’d get hassle, if the person gave me my money and then started hassling me, that’s when I started taking retaliation… I just wish I never would have done this shit. And I just wish I never would have done what I did. I still have to say to myself, I still say that it was in self-defence… Really inside, right inside me, I’m a good person. But, when I get drunk, like I said, I’d be drinking with these guys and… and when they started messing with me, I wouldn’t tou— I would never hurt nobody. But, if they messed with me, then I would. I’d just… I have to say I was… I’d get just as violent as they would get on me… to try and protect myself.