Aileen Wuornos wasn't actually "America's first female serial killer." Wuornos' crimes defied typical female killer patterns, sparking public fascination and a trial that cemented her femme fatale ...

In January 1991, drifter Aileen "Lee" Wuornos, the 34-year-old suspect recently arrested for a string of murders along highways in central Florida, was heard on a taped phone call from jail as she ...

For decades, the profile of a serial killer was almost exclusively male. The idea of a woman committing multiple, violent roadside murders was unthinkable. Then came Aileen Wuornos. Between 1989 and ...