The story of Aileen Wuornos —who murdered seven men between 1989 and 1990 and was executed by lethal injection in 2002—has long been a fixture of culture, fictionalized on TV and dramatized for film , with Charlize Theron playing the serial killer in an Oscar-winning role.

Wuornos was a sex worker in Florida and confessed to fatally shooting seven middle-aged men over a period of 12 months in 1989 and 1990. She was convicted for just one of the murders in 1992 at the age of 35. More than two decades later, her motives remain unclear.

Now, a new Netflix documentary, Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, out Oct. 30, traces her crimes and features a rare account from Wuornos herself, from a 1997 interview conducted by the artist and filmmaker Jasmine Hirst, who became penpals with W

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