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Jennifer D. Pegg
Inspector
Username: Jdpegg
Post Number: 287
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2004 - 3:17 pm: | 
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Hi
I was wondering if any one else in the Uk saw this film on channel four yesterday about american serial killer Aileen Wurnos.
I though it to be a really thought provocking film and wondered what others made of it?
regards
Jennifer
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Kris Law
Inspector
Username: Kris
Post Number: 336
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 12:25 pm: |
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Hi Jennifer,
I haven't seen that particular film, but I have seen Monster starring Charlize Theron, it was very intense and sad.
Have you seen it?
-K |
Thomas C. Wescott
Detective Sergeant
Username: Tom_wescott
Post Number: 63
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 7:42 pm: |
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Hello all,
I just rented 'Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer'. A half-made documentary from 1992 that looks half-made. Don't bother with it, you'll just be annoyed by the questions it raises and never answers. Incidentally, Wuornos isn't a typical serial killer, but that label sells books and papers, so there it is.
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott |
Phoenix45000
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 5:11 am: |
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Aileen Wurnos is a female serial killer and as such is a total different breed to the most common serial murderer... The male. Females are exceptionally rare as serial killers, the reasons for it though seem much more feasible with money, revenge and rape (being victim) being the core reasons. Money in particular is very a powerful motive with women sometimes taking ten years to kill their victim.
Not to say that they chain them in a dungeon and torture them for ten years, no, they often rely on a weapon that to my knowledge has not ever been used by a male serial killer... Poison. Often something such as doseage of anti-freeze over ten years, they are also more prone to using handguns, as in the case of Aileen. They are also highly likely to have an accomplice, something that male serial killers have never had, male serial killers have always acted alone.
Aileen was what my lecturer calls a 'revenge' serial killer, in that she hunted those she believed had wronged her, showing no remorse for the killings. |
John Hacker
Inspector
Username: Jhacker
Post Number: 299
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 11, 2004 - 2:08 pm: |
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Phoenix,
There are many male SKs who used poison. George Chapman is a good example. There are also several male SK teams. The obvious one being the Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Stranglers.
I've always seen Wuornos as more of a for profit killer than a "revenge" killer myself.
Regards,
John |
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