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In real life, Tyria Moore was openly gay and she and Wuornos lived together for about four and a half years — not the brief but intense romance shown in Monster

Moore allowed investigators to record her phone calls with Wuornos and helped police find the murder weapon — details shown in both the documentary and the 2003 film

The crash of victim Peter Siems’ car and the composite sketch of the two women were real and detailed in the Netflix doc; Wuornos' drinking buddy “Thomas” in Monster was fictional

Aileen Wuornos was convicted in Florida of six murders committed between 1989 and 1990 — and later confessed to a seventh before she was executed by lethal injection on Oct. 9, 2002. Her story was told on-screen the following year in the movie Monster, starring Academy A

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