Tonight, Katie revisits the life of Aileen Wuornos, the abused Michigan girl who grew up hitchhiking, trading sex for survival and cycling through petty crime before becoming one of the most infamous serial killers in Florida history. From a childhood marked by alleged family violence and assault, to a violent string of roadside murders in the late nineteen eighties and early nineteen nineties, Katie traces Wuornos’ path from traumatized runaway to death row inmate, then explores how Hollywood turned her into a cultural obsession, from the film Monster to a new season of the Netflix series “Monster” starring Sarah Paulson as Wuornos.

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