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Episode: Monster: Aileen Wuornos
Description: According to The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, only around 16% of all serial killers are female. In fact, they are so rare that even the man credited with coining the term "serial killer," FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler, did not discuss female killers at all in his research. As he said in his 1992 book Whoever Fights Monsters, there has been only one female that "has been arrested and accused as a serial killer — Aileen Wuornos."Aileen was not just an exception to the rule of serial killers being mostly white males in their twenties or thirties, but she also did no...