Famous serial killers biography documentaries on youtube

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

The second of two Aileen Wuornos documentaries from British director Nick Broomfield (Kurt and Courtney, Biggie and Tupac), Life and Death of a Serial Killer questions the use of the death penalty in her case and in general.

Utilizing footage from a 2002 hearing and taped interviews with her the night before her execution, Broomfield suggests that Wuornos — who shot and killed seven clients as a sex worker in Florida between 1989 and 1990 — was not “of sound mind,” as court-ordered psychiatrists had declared her in the weeks leading up to her death. 

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“Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer” (1992)

Made 11 years before Life and Death, Broomfield’s first documentary on Aileen Wuornos captures the circus surrounding America’s most famous female serial killer — including the bizarre st