Aileen Wuornos: In Her Own Words
My Trial, My Crimes, My ConfessionsBy Andrew Mouser
Length5h 36m
About this audiobook
The woman the headlines called a monster tells the story the headlines never printed.
This is not a true crime retelling. This is a walk through the buildings, highways, courtrooms, and prison cells that made a girl from Rochester, Michigan into the most notorious woman on Florida's death row — told in a raw, first-person voice drawn from letters, interviews, court transcripts, and archival records, and reimagined as editorial art.
From a childhood house where no one intervened, to Michigan schools that saw a distress signal and labeled it a "behavior problem," to an emancipation at sixteen that was just a bureaucratic way of letting go, to the stretch of Central Florida highway where everything ran out of road — In Her Own Words traces how a system built on stamped files and closed cases failed at every door.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, True Crime
Length5 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 25, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue
2Chapter 1"Childhood: The Seeds of Turmoil"
3Born Into the Cold
4The House on Troy Street
5Keith: The Only Witness
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6Hunger, Shame, and the Business of Surviving
7Fire and the End of the Beginning
8The Baby
9How a Worldview Gets Built
10What I Didn’t Know Then
11Looking Back From the End
12Chapter 2"The Road to Rebellion"
13The Rules of the Road
14The Chameleon Years
15Jobs: A Short and Ugly History
16Florida: The Promised Land That Wasn’t
17The Marriage
18The Women
19Trying to Go Straight
20The Questions That Started
21The Girl in the Rearview
22Chapter 3"The First Kill: A Turning Point"
23The Man in the Car
24The Silence Afterward
25What I Told Myself
26The Body, and the World Waking Up
27The Arrest
28The Interrogations and the Shape of a Case
29Grappling With the Moral Weight
30The Turning Point, Named Honestly
31What Was Coming
32Chapter 4"Behind Bars: Confronting the Consequences"
33The Concrete Lesson
34The Machinery of Confinement
35The Women
36The Waiting
37Confession and Its Disguises
38The Body in Captivity
39Small Mercies and Small Cruelties
40The Ledger, Rebalanced
41What the Walls Give Back
42The Approach of the Courtroom
43Chapter 5"The Trial: A Test of Humanity"
44Walking In
45The Machinery Explained
46The State Builds Its Monster
47My Side of the Wall
48The Witnesses
49The Moment I Took the Stand
50The Jury: Thirteen Strangers and One Question
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