The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

I read that quote left under a YouTube video about Eileen Warnos.

The author is unknown.

When you look it up online, it's attributed simply to an African proverb.

After finishing this week's research, I feel it perfectly describes Eileen.

Society abandoned her, and she turned on society.

She suffered a lot as a kid, was used, abused, and abandoned over and over again.

Due primarily to her early childhood treatment, she became angry, manipulative, and extremely

promiscuous.

And the more she acted out in negative ways, the more she continued to be used,

abused, and abandoned. And the more she was used, abused and abandoned, the more she acted out.

And this toxic cycle not only kept repeating and occurring, it worsened over time, until eventually

Eileen's greatest abuser became herself. And the anger she harbored about the world around her,

anger mostly directed at the men who saw her as having little value

outside of someone they could toss a bit of cash at for some cheap sex,

men she paradoxically both hated and continually sought out,

men she hated for using her sexually,

but men she also continually propositioned to pay her for sex,

it built and built until eventually her anger exploded into murder after murder after murder.

Before she was identified by a task force of investigators,

Eileen Wernos was known as the damsel of death.

The exceptionally rare female serial killer who both killed violently

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