MONSTER : My True Story

Hardback. On November 30, 1989, electrical repairman Richard Mallory disappeared from his home in Clearwater, Florida. He had become the first of 8 victims of Aileen "Lee" Wuornos, one of the very rare examples of female serial killers. Nobody understood what drove a woman to kill again and again. This is Lee's own story, backed by previously unpublished background research. She was born on the wrong side of the tracks in suburban Troy, Illinois. Wuornos's dysfunctional life was a wreck from the day she was born until the day she met her own premature and agonising demise at the hands of Florida's state executioner. The subject of 3 motion pictures, countless TV documentaries, books and newspaper features, her status has been elevated to that of a murderous cult figure since her death. The story of the woman the media dubbed the 'Damsel of Death', this book is a minute examination of the inner workings of this female serial killer's mind and a chilling, yet revealing insight into the mind of a female psychopath from cradle to grave. Illus. + Chronology of Events and Dates. 238pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. in F. dw.