A female serial killer gave a chilling interview before her execution in which she explained why she killed seven people.
Aileen Wuornos was executed in Florida State Prison in 2002 after she was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder - only six because one body was never found.
She received six death sentences for her crimes, and before she was administered the lethal injection she gave one final chilling interview.
Aileen Wuornos gave one final shocking interview before her execution
Wuornos killed seven men between 1989 and 1990.
All of the men were motorists, and all aged between 40 and 65.
Wuornos was working as a sex worker in Florida at the time of the murders, and claimed that her victims had either raped her, attempted to rape her, or that she was acting in self-defence.
The law didn’t see it that way.
She was sentenced to death and spent 10 years on death row before she was finally executed by lethal injection in 2002.
Before she died, she gave a final set of chilling interviews to UK-based documentary maker Nick Broomfield.
Those interviews were released as a film, and show Wuornos becoming increasingly erratic and offering some reasoning behind her crimes.
Wuornos offers some insight into why she killed seven men
In one shocking clip, Broomfield says to the killer: “You killed seven men!”
She responds: “Yeah, sure did!”
The filmmaker asks her: “I’m asking you what got you…”
She cuts him off: “I’m telling you [it was] because the cops let me keep killing them, Nick!
“Don’t you get it?”
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Nick responds: “Not everyone has killed seven people, so there must have been something in you that was going to continue to do that?”
Aileen hit back: “You are lost Nick!
“I was a hitchhiking hooker, running into trouble, [I] shot a guy if I ran into trouble, the cops knew it.”
She alleges that the cops took the attitude ‘let her clean the streets’ and adds: “That’s why.”
When confronted with her record of seven murders in one year, she adds: “Oh well.”
The interviews are wide-ranging and provide a shocking insight into the mind of a killer, as well as providing some human context to life on death row as a convicted murderer awaiting execution.
You can see the whole video here.