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Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the “queen of the serial killers,” was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman she loved.

Between 1989 and 1990, the Michigan-born drifter killed seven middle-aged men along Florida’s highways. A rare female serial killer, Wuornos was convicted and sentenced to death — a sentence carried out in 2002. But long before her execution, she had already stepped into the spotlight.

“I don’t think she was ever really listened to by the adults in her life,” Emily Turner, director of Netflix’s “Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers,” told Fox News Digital.

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