Requiem for a Female Serial Killer

This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day. Women even prostitutes have the right to self-defense in theory but in practice the story is more complicated. This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes serial killers and justice in America.Aileen Wuornos is a damaged soul a genuine American outlaw a symbol of womens rage a symbol of what can happen to severely abused children and of how our justice system fails women.Cheslers involvement with a serial killer has haunted her ever since. She speaks in Aileen Wuornos voice as well as in her own and delivers an incisive original and dramatic portrait of a cognitively impaired traumatized and alcoholic woman who had endured so much pain in her short life. When shed had enough the results were deadly.This is a poignant sometimes humorous never-before-told behind-the-scenes tale. Wuornos story is handled with great sensitivity but also with realistic detachment by Chesler as she probes the telling moment the telling phrase. Was Wuornos suffering from post-traumatic stress after a life lived on a killing field? Was she also born evil? So many prostitutes have been torture-murdered by serial killers-how did Wuornos once prey become a predator? Requiem for a Female Serial Killer will also haunt you. It wont let you put it down. Take a walk on the wild side. The ghost of Aileen Wuornos beckons.