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- <text id=92TT0287>
- <title>
- Feb. 10, 1992: American Notes:Crime
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 10, 1992 Japan
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- CRIME
- Damsel of Death
- </hdr><body>
- <p> According to psychologists, serial killers are usually white
- males in their 20s or 30s. Aileen Wuornos may be an exception.
- In DeLand, Fla., last week the 35-year-old drifter was
- convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of electronics
- repairman Richard Mallory. He was one of at least seven male
- motorists who authorities believe have been lured to their death
- since 1989 by a man-hating prostitute.
- </p>
- <p> During a three-hour videotaped statement, Wuornos admitted
- killing Mallory and six other men who had picked her up on
- interstate highways. According to police, she posed as a
- motorist in distress to get her middle-aged victims to stop,
- persuaded them to go to a secluded spot with the promise of sex,
- then robbed and killed them. Her lawyers argued during the trial
- that Wuornos had struck back in self-defense after her clients
- became abusive. But both her adopted brother and lesbian lover
- took the stand to dispute her account. Wuornos must now stand
- trial on four other murder charges across north-central Florida,
- and she faces charges in two other slayings.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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