Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
- Documentary
- Crime
9/9/2003
89
R
The 2002 Interviews.
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
- Directors:
- prison
- death penalty
- child abuse
- michigan
- death row
- self-defense
- death sentence
- interview
- childhood trauma
- daytona
- dysfunctional family
- rape victim
- murder
- domestic abuse
- incest
- mother daughter estrangement
- homeless girl
- woman director
- mentally ill
- ostracism
- abandoned by mother
- kicked out
- traumatic childhood
- traumatic experience
- homeless teenager
- estranged mother
- mother daughter relationship
- unfit mother
- homeless child
- traumatized woman
- last interview
- abused child
- traumatized person
- traumatized child
- maximum security prison
- women in prison
- child raised by grandparents
- working class people
- central florida