AILEEN WUORNOS WITH CHRISTOPHER BERRY-DEE - Monster : My True Story. Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos.

London England, John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2004. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1844540790 Harback Hardback. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. On 30 November, 1989, electrical repairman Richard Mallory disappeared from his home in Clearwater, Florida. He had become the first of eight victims of Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos, one of the very rare examples of female serial killers. Nobody understood what drove a woman to kill again and again. This is Lee's own story, backed by previously unpublished background research from leading criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee. She was born on the wrong isde of the tracks in suburban Troy, Illinois. Wuornos's dysfunctional life was a wreck from the day she was born until the day she met her own premature and agonising demise at the hands of Florida's state executioner. The subject of three motion pictures, countless TV documentatires, books and newspaper features, her status has been elevated to that of a murderous gult figure since her death. The story of the women dubbed the 'Damsel of Death', Monster is a minute examintion of the inner workings of this female serial killer's mind and a chilling, yet revealing insight into the mind of a female psychopath from cradle to grave. Illustrated. 238 pp.