Tennessee death row inmate, Christa Pike, is set to be the first woman executed in the state in over 200 years. She filed a ...

Aileen Wuornos wasn’t actually “America’s first female serial killer.” Wuornos’ crimes defied typical female killer patterns, sparking public fascination and a trial that cemented her femme fatale ...

Aileen Wuornos was a female serial killer who was sentenced to death for murdering seven men. She was a sex worker who confessed to killing seven of her male clients in Florida from 1989 to 1990.

For decades, the profile of a serial killer was almost exclusively male. The idea of a woman committing multiple, violent roadside murders was unthinkable. Then came Aileen Wuornos. Between 1989 and ...