Publisher's Synopsis
KILLER WOMEN: Aileen Wuornos and Misty Witherspoon - 2 Books in 1
Featuring... *Aileen Wuornos*Misty Witherspoon
2 Great Books in 1!
Aileen Wuornos
Between 1976 and 2002, over 800 murderers were executed for their crimes in the United States. Only ten of these eight hundred were women. The tenth female murderer to be executed for her crimes in 2002 was Aileen Wuornos. Wuornos was the first female who ever fit the profile of that the FBI considers a serial killer. According to the FBI, a serial murder consists of three of more killings over a certain amount of time that have common characteristics. Often, these murderers, after being caught, display a certain type of causality and lack of regret for their crime. Between 1989 and 1990, the bodies of seven men were discovered in central Florida. These were the victims of Aileen Wuornos.
Wuornos killed them by shooting them at point-blank range. In the case of every single victim, Wuornos claimed that they had either raped or attempted to rape her. Wuornos was working as a prostitute, and suggests that all of the homicides were committed in self-defense. Aileen was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the seven murders and was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002. This is her story.
Misty Witherspoon
Murder is often thought of as a male crime. While women do kill it is often depicted as a crime committed in the heat of the moment, or is described as a crime of passion. It is accepted that women may kill if their own life or the life of another, particularly their child, is in danger. It is also not unheard of for a woman, fearing for her life and trapped in an abusive situation, to see the murder of her abuser as her only means of escape. But for a woman to kill in cold blood is rare. It is rarer still for that murder to have been coldly planned and plotted before hand. Even when a woman does commit murder in these situations the gun is not often her weapon of choice. The gun seems to belong in the arsenal of the cold blooded, male murderer. A female killer is far more likely to use some form of poison or other subtlety to end the life of their victim. As a result of their rarity women who do commit cold blooded, premeditated murder, women such as the Countess Elizabeth Bathroy or Aileen Wuornos, are often held in a particular notoriety. It seems that Misty Witherspoon, a bubbly, out going, caring mother and regular churchgoer from the town of Mooresville in Irdell County, North Carolina is destined to belong in this category.
