Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial. prison, death penalty, child abuse, michigan, death row, self-defense, death sentence, interview, childhood trauma, daytona, dysfunctional family, rape victim, murder, domestic abuse, incest, mother daughter estrangement, homeless girl, woman director, mentally ill, ostracism, abandoned by mother, kicked out, traumatic childhood, traumatic experience, homeless teenager, estranged mother, mother daughter relationship, unfit mother, homeless child, traumatized woman, last interview, abused child, traumatized person, traumatized child, maximum security prison, women in prison, child raised by grandparents, working class people, central florida