The Backstory: Blueprint For a Serial Killer
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
One of America’s most prolific female serial killers was Aileen Wuornos. She admitted to killing at least seven men before she was executed in 2002. Her life was depicted in the 2003 movie Monster. But how did the little girl, tormented by schoolmates as "the cigarette pig," become a monster?
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| 0:00.0 | Her childhood wasn't hard. It was brutal, and it left marks that not only didn't fade, they grew. |
| 0:06.3 | Aileen Carol Warnos was born on February 29, 1956, leap year, leap day, born literally on a day that barely exists. |
| 0:16.6 | That's sort of poetic in a grim way, because for most of her life, she was treated like she didn't exist either. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm Patty Steele. |
| 0:24.3 | Does any of that excuse her for becoming a prolific serial killer? |
| 0:29.2 | That's next on the backstory. |
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