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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

The 2002 Interviews.

Rating 6.7 / 10Release November 21, 2003Runtime 89 min

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.

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