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Aileen Wuornos confessed to killing at least seven men between 1989 and 1990

After her arrest and subsequent trial, she was sentenced to death and was executed in 2002

Wuornos' crimes are the subject of the Netflix documentary, Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers

Aileen Wuornos was a female serial killer who was sentenced to death for murdering seven men.

She was a sex worker who confessed to killing seven of her male clients in Florida from 1989 to 1990. During her trial, Wuornos alleged that she killed the men in self-defense because they had either raped her or tried to rape her, per the Associated Press.

Despite her claims, Wuornos was found guilty of murdering six of the men. She received six death sentences, escaping the seventh because one victim's body was neve

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