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- NATION, Page 31American NotesCRIMEDamsel of Death
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- According to psychologists, serial killers are usually white
- males in their 20s or 30s. Aileen Wuornos may be an exception.
- In De Land, 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.
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- 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.
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