First ever female serial killer: Aileen Wuornos | 60 Minutes Australia — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:02the dark woods are Florida's highways it
3. 0:07was down dirt roads like this that seven
4. 0:10men met the madness of one angry woman
5. 0:14Lee were nos murdered them robbed them
6. 0:18and then drove home in their cars this
7. 0:24men were shot just just shot in such
8. 0:26that mu boom boom you know they weren't
9. 0:28cut up they weren't sliced up no OJ jazz
10. 0:30you know and he said I did the most
11. 0:32horrendous crime in the whole wide world
12. 0:35not true
13. 0:37I guess not only word was shot and left
14. 0:42it was a horrendous crime why didn't I
15. 0:45shoot between the eyes cut their penis
16. 0:47off stick it in their mouth you know do
17. 0:48all kinds of gross stuff other word was
18. 0:51shot left you know she's been called the
19. 0:55damsel of death and the hooker from hell
20. 0:59but embellishment aside the story of
21. 1:02history's first female serial killer is
22. 1:05macabre enough even without its
23. 1:08supporting cast of characters first
24. 1:16there's me were losses lawyers she's
25. 1:19given him the job of getting her to the
26. 1:21electric chair to plead out that's what
27. 1:32then there's the serial killers new
28. 1:35mother she first met Lee after her
29. 1:38arrest and then legally adopted her
30. 1:41Sheba you know we believe in the holy
31. 1:44spirit and so we feel it was him
32. 1:46prompting us that this person really
33. 1:48needed help and she had nobody and just
34. 1:51reach out to her so we did I met her in
35. 1:55a bar and there's Lee's gay lover who
36. 1:58betrayed her to the police we were
37. 2:01sitting on the floor watching TV and she
38. 2:03just come out and said I have something
39. 2:05to tell you and I asked for what and she
40. 2:09said that she had shot and killed a man
41. 2:10that day Lee it sounds like you've been
42. 2:12betrayed
43. 2:13everyone that's right I was I was that's
44. 2:16why I don't care if I'm executed and
45. 2:19leave this planet if anyone was destined
46. 2:23to end up here on death row it was
47. 2:25probably luminous psychologists sketch a
48. 2:28portrait of a damaged person with a
49. 2:30lurid history of abuse that began in
50. 2:33childhood abandoned by her teenage
51. 2:36mother when she was just six months old
52. 2:38Lee was raised by her alcoholic
53. 2:40grandmother and a cruel grandfather who
54. 2:43regularly beat her with his belt buckle
55. 2:45when she was two her father committed
56. 2:47suicide in jail where he was doing time
57. 2:50for kidnapping and raping a child by 13
58. 2:54she'd been raped and was pregnant at 14
59. 2:57she quit school and when her grandfather
60. 3:00kicked her out of home Lee Warner's life
61. 3:03on the road began from age 15
62. 3:07Lee were nas worked prostitutions lowest
63. 3:10and most dangerous trade a hitchhiking
64. 3:14hooker turning tricks from exit to exit
65. 3:17on Florida's interstate highways
66. 3:21basically I'd say have five to six guys
67. 3:24her name interested they could be
68. 3:27interesting 30 they could be interested
69. 3:29in 40 it could be interested for a
70. 3:30hundred I wasn't too high-priced so I
71. 3:33could keep the customers satisfied
72. 3:36that all changed when she turned 33
73. 3:40after years of abuse and degradation at
74. 3:43the hands of men Lee were nas started
75. 3:46evening the score the killings all began
76. 3:54like this a middle-aged man pulled over
77. 3:58to pick up Lee were knows that's the
78. 4:00first of just two facts on which
79. 4:03everyone agrees the way Lee tells that
80. 4:05she was just a hooker trying to turn a
81. 4:08trick and the men knew it the state of
82. 4:11Florida maintains she tricked her
83. 4:13victims by posing as a damsel in
84. 4:15distress the men thought they were
85. 4:17helping her out either way the second
86. 4:21fact on which everyone agrees is that
87. 4:23Lee Wuornos shot them dead maybe you
88. 4:27were just born bad no I wasn't born bad
89. 4:33you guys got it sim trying to tell you
90. 4:36me and they lie they lied so bad to you
91. 4:39all but you've been convicted of killing
92. 4:42seven men everybody's looking at the
93. 4:44number does that not you you killed it
94. 4:47seven men seven strangers does that not
95. 4:49make you a serial kisser I didn't kill
96. 4:51him every day you did I did I go out
97. 4:53there every day as a man if I did there
98. 4:55hello it took you 12 months yeah and
99. 4:58that's a hell of a lot of men I went
100. 5:01through before the next jerk came along
101. 5:03and I used to protection like a condom
102. 5:06so it was seeds it was self-defense
103. 5:09yeah Lee the first one perhaps the
104. 5:13second maybe but seven times
105. 5:21li 1 oz began the last day of her
106. 5:24miserable life on the road here or
107. 5:26during her first beer at the 11:00 in
108. 5:28the morning
109. 5:29close to broke as usual it was Lee's
110. 5:32style to hustle quarters for the jukebox
111. 5:34so she could listen to her favorite song
112. 5:36on this day that was made easier by two
113. 5:40undercover cops they struck up a
114. 5:43conversation with her doubles thought of
115. 5:44some more beer and then convinced her to
116. 5:47step outside
117. 5:49[Music]
118. 5:52leah was prepared for anything but the
119. 5:55six florida police officers who arrested
120. 5:57her it was from this point the story of
121. 6:01the first female serial killer becomes
122. 6:03truly perplexing first her videotaped
123. 6:08confession go ahead and put the electric
124. 6:14chair to me I should have never done it
125. 6:17she told police but by the time of her
126. 6:20trial Lee was pleading self-defense the
127. 6:32case wasn't helped when tyria more now
128. 6:34very much her ex-lover turned star
129. 6:37witness in the prosecution but it gets
130. 6:46worse tyria had another deal going with
131. 6:49the arresting police they were trying to
132. 6:52sell Hollywood the movie rights to Lee
133. 6:54were Knossos life and crazy times
134. 7:02because I wanted her to keep talking
135. 7:04about the offenses so I would be cleared
136. 7:07district attorney Rick Ridgeway is one
137. 7:10of the only officials willing to talk
138. 7:12about the were nos case anymore
139. 7:14the police certainly won't out of sheer
140. 7:16embarrassment there was a tremendous
141. 7:19amount of almost frenzy about the case
142. 7:24and everybody wanted to get a scoop on
143. 7:27the next guy about the case and there
144. 7:29were so many people who were willing to
145. 7:32pander to that him in order to be the
146. 7:35one who gets quoted or who gets the
147. 7:37movie made about it people from your own
148. 7:39Sheriff's Office well unfortunately yes
149. 7:41they did
150. 7:42as the prosecutor were you dismayed by
151. 7:45that well to put it mildly we went
152. 7:48through the roof when we found out about
153. 7:50it
154. 7:52in the end it was only the producers of
155. 7:55this American TV movie who were able to
156. 7:58cash in on Lee's story Tyria and the
157. 8:01police's conspiracy to get rich quick
158. 8:03came to nothing once they were caught
159. 8:06but that hasn't stopped Lee were not
160. 8:09suspecting someone somewhere wants to
161. 8:13exploit pen-name
162. 8:14it's making me get bitter evil angry
163. 8:20I've never been before in my life worse
164. 8:23than even out there with those men this
165. 8:26is evil what those people have done to
166. 8:28me do you feel anger or even hatred
167. 8:31towards men I never hated men but now I
168. 8:34do
169. 8:34I mean now all I have a category I hate
170. 8:38those male male cops real bad cuz
171. 8:48they're dirt balls the cops the judges
172. 8:51lawyers they're all male I have made
173. 8:54peace with my Lord and I have asked
174. 8:56forgiveness the final twist and this
175. 8:59already mad tale was when Lee Wuornos
176. 9:02decided to plead no contest to the
177. 9:05remaining six murder charges sentence
178. 9:07you in case number 91 next 463 to death
179. 9:11for the murder of Troy Burris her lawyer
180. 9:14Steve Glazer found himself in the
181. 9:16bizarre position of helping his client
182. 9:19take the express route to the electric
183. 9:22chair in any case number I sentence you
184. 9:24to death for the murder of David Spears
185. 9:27thank you table C I'll be up in heaven
186. 9:33why y'all rotting in half in effect
187. 9:35though weren't you trying to kill your
188. 9:38client it's not what I was trying to do
189. 9:40okay it's what she wanted to have done
190. 9:43to her she was tired of being in the
191. 9:46spotlight she was tired of reporters and
192. 9:50police and lawyers everyone making a
193. 9:52career off of her she did not like the
194. 9:56man hating killer label she didn't like
195. 9:59the lesbian killer angle she didn't like
196. 10:02what people were saying about her and
197. 10:04she
198. 10:04knows if she gots to go to trial five
199. 10:06more times she's gonna be in the for the
200. 10:09next ten years do you still believe she
201. 10:11was competent to make that decision
202. 10:12without a doubt okay there will be an
203. 10:15automatic appeal you have the right to
204. 10:17an appeal mr. glazier is that going to
205. 10:19be handled by you
206. 10:24okay Oh our point the public defender's
207. 10:27office to handle the appeal there's one
208. 10:29other thing that I wanted to say that I
209. 10:31think needs to be said there for these
210. 10:36proceedings do still want the chair
211. 10:44there's no sense in having me tormented
212. 10:50for the rest of my life when I don't
213. 10:53deserve to be tormented I did what
214. 10:55anybody else would do and so there's all
215. 10:58my clemency or the chair you make your
216. 10:59pick people because that's the only way
217. 11:01it's gonna be
218. 11:02why did you adopt lay Willis for one
219. 11:06reason and one reason only we want to
220. 11:07hurt it know it felt like to be part of
221. 11:09a family born-again Christian Elaine
222. 11:11prolly has a fondness for adopting stray
223. 11:14animals when she adopted Lee she planned
224. 11:18a life together on her farm now she'd be
225. 11:21happy just to keep her alive tell me
226. 11:27this how did you counsel thee I I told
227. 11:31her to go for the life in prison I told
228. 11:35her that that would be the best I told
229. 11:37her that God could use her within the
230. 11:39prison to help other girls that were
231. 11:41hurting maybe didn't have a relationship
232. 11:43with Jesus and that she could really be
233. 11:46used mightily there and we fought
234. 11:48bitterly over it she said that no human
235. 11:51being had the right to tell another
236. 11:52human being what to do with their life
237. 11:53stop the murders dieter the
238. 11:59not much phases the singing lawyer Steve
239. 12:02Glazer not the three heart attacks is
240. 12:05suffered since taking on this case nor
241. 12:08the criticism has endured for seeking
242. 12:11Lee were losses execution has this case
243. 12:21been good for your career
244. 12:23no but that's life you know you take the
245. 12:26Ovidio blood doll life goes on you try
246. 12:28something else is there anyone in this
247. 12:30cast of characters who isn't a little
248. 12:32bit crazy a little bit eccentric I think
249. 12:34he got to be a little while to be in
250. 12:36this business if Steve blazer has done
251. 12:39his job
252. 12:39leeward Oz could be executed in this
253. 12:42chair
254. 12:43within three years she's waived her
255. 12:46right to appeal here's no last-minute
256. 12:49stays from the governor's office the
257. 12:52electrode then is placed on top of the
258. 12:54inmates head it's an actual cap with an
259. 12:57electrode inside it's secured onto his
260. 12:59head one of these electrodes here is
261. 13:02then fastened on to the top of the head
262. 13:05piece alone and lost in her own
263. 13:10nightmare Lee warned us is an American
264. 13:14Horror Story she could escape death row
265. 13:17but her bitterness and hate will see
266. 13:20Leigh become the first woman in over a
267. 13:23century to be executed in Florida aren't
268. 13:27you afraid no I know where I'm going I'm
269. 13:31gonna be with the Lord thank you do you
270. 13:37want to die you wanna oh man if I if I
271. 13:40was to leave this planet wouldn't be no
272. 13:42big deal to me cuz this is a wicked
273. 13:44wicked world wicked world
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