"THE TRIAL, DEATH ROW & EXECUTION OF AILEEN WUORNOS - PART 2"

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media, Good morning, I'm Red Carter. Sunday, November ninth, twenty twenty five. January sixteenth, nineteen ninety one, Vlusha County Jail interview room. Aileen Warno sits across from Detective Larry horsepa tape recorder running video camera rolling. She's been in custody for seven days, hasn't confessed, hasn't admitted anything, insists she's innocent, says she doesn't know anything about those murders, just a prostitute trying to survive. Then Detective Horzepa plays her something audio recording phone call from three days earlier, January thirteenth, Aileen calling her girlfriend Tiria Moore. Tyria is staying at a motel in Daytona Beach. Police are paying for the room and they've wired the phone. Aileen's voice on the tape, ty I love you. I'm not going to let them get you. You didn't do anything. I did this. It's all me. Tyria's voice shaking. Lee. I'm scared.

1:12 The cops think I helped you. They're going to arrest me. They think we did this together. Aileen, No, listen to me. You just stay quiet. Tell them, you don't know anything. I'm the one who killed those guys. Not you, just me. You hear me, just me. That was call number three. There were eleven total eleven phone calls over three days, January tenth through January thirteenth. Police listening to every word, recording everything. Tiria working with them, following their script, manipulating Aileen into confessing, and it worked. After hearing the tapes, Aileen knew she'd been set up. New Tyria had betrayed her, knew it was over. She looked at Detective Horzeppa, took a breath and said, I killed Richard Mallory, and I killed the others too. I'm a serial killer. I would kill again. I just wanted to get their money and their cars. I shot them because I wanted to rob them.

2:11 Just like that. Full confession. Seven murders, thirteen months, all admitted on tape. But then Aileen added something, something the prosecution didn't want to hear, something that complicated the narrative of the cold blooded serial killer. The first one Richard Mallory. He raped me, he tied me up, he hurt me. I shot him because he was going to kill me. That one was self defense, but the others, the others I just killed to take their stuff, self defense for the first robbery, murder for the rest, both things true at the same time. That's what makes this case different from every serial killer we've covered, because Richard Mallory wasn't innocent.

2:56 He was a convicted rapist, and the jury never heard that fact, never knew convicted Aileen without knowing the first victim had a history of violent sexual assault. Yesterday we covered how Aileen Warnos became a killer. Today, how the justice system decided what to do with her, how Tyria Moore betrayed her completely, how Florida put a mentally ill woman to death while she was clearly insane, and how America created Aileen Warnos then executed her for being too broken to fix. I'm reed, Carter, this is Celebrity Trials, Part two of two, the Tyria Betrayal. Let's talk about Tyria Jolene Moore, twenty eight years old in January nineteen ninety one, the only person Aleen Warnos ever loved, the only person whoever made her feel human. January ninth, nineteen ninety one, Aileen was arrested at the Last Resort Bar.

3:53 Police didn't have enough evidence yet to charge her with murder, held her on outstanding warrant for firearms possession, bought themselfel's time to build the case. Meanwhile, Tyria was in Pennsylvania staying with her sister. Knew the police were looking for her, knew her face was all over the news. Knew it was only a matter of time. January tenth, police flew to Pennsylvania, knocked on her sister's door. Tyria answered. They asked her to come in for questioning. She agreed, didn't resist, didn't lawyer up, just went with them at the station. They laid it out. We know you lived with Aileen Warnos, we know you were with her during these murders. We found stolen property from victims in your shared apartment. You're an accessory to seven murders. You're looking at life in prison or death penalty. Florida loves the death penalty. Then they offered the deal, full immunity, no charges, walk away free.

4:48 All she had to do was help them get Alien's confession, testify at trial, tell them everything she knew. Tyria took it immediately, didn't hesitate, didn't think about it, didn't consider that Aileen had supported her for four years. Didn't consider that Aileen loved her completely. Didn't consider anything except saving herself. Police set up the operation, flew Tyia back to Florida, put her in a motel room in daytona Beach wired the phone, gave her a script, told her what to say, how to manipulate Aileen, how to make her confess to protect Tiria. January tenth through January thirteenth, eleven phone calls.

5:28 Aileen called collect from jail. Tiria answered, police listening on the other line, recording everything. Call one Tiria crying, Lee, I love you. I'm so scared the police of following me. They think I helped you. Aileen, you didn't do anything. I did it. You're innocent. Just tell them you don't know anything. Call two Tiria escalating. They showed me pictures, Lee, pictures of those men. They said you can killed them. They said, I was with you. Lee. I can't go to prison. I can't, Aileen, You're not going to prison.

6:09 I won't let that happen. You didn't kill anyone I did. Just me. Call three Tiria, following the script, Lee, They're going to arrest me. My family's telling me to get a lawyer, but I don't have money for a lawyer. What do I do? Aileen, listen to me. You didn't do this. Tell them the truth. I killed those men. You weren't there, you didn't know. I'm not going to let you go down for something I did. By call five, Aileen was explicit. I killed them, Tie, I shot them, I took their money, I took their cars. You didn't have anything to do with it. You just tell them that.

6:50 By call eight, Aileen was begging, please just tell them you're innocent, because you are. I love you. I'm not going to let them hurt you. Call eleven Aileen's final words before confessing, I'm going to tell them everything. I'm going to confess. That way they'll leave you alone. I love you, Ty, You're the only person I ever loved. Tiria Moore accomplished her mission, got the confession, secured her immunity, and destroyed the only person who ever loved her. January sixteenth, nineteen ninety one, after hearing those tapes, Aileen gave her full confession to Detective Horzepa admitted to killing Richard Mallory David Spears Charles Carskadden, Troy Burris, Dick Humphreys, and Walter Antonio couldn't be charged with Peter Seems because his body was never found, but she confessed to that one too.

7:52 Tiria Moore testified at the trial. Took the stand, told the jury about stolen property in their apartment, about Aileen coming home with different cars, about the money, about the belongings, about how Aileen admitted killing men. Never mentioned that she'd lived off that money, Never mentioned that she knew what Aileen was doing, never mentioned that she'd spent four years benefiting from those crimes. Just painted herself as an innocent bystander who had no idea her girlfriend was a serial killer. The jury believed her, why wouldn't they. She had immunity, she was cooperating. She was the state's key witness. After the trial, Tyria Moore changed her name, disappeared, moved somewhere in Pennsylvania, never spoke publicly again, never gave interviews, never expressed remorse, never acknowledged her role in Aileen's life or death.

8:45 Aileen Warnos spent the rest of her life on death row. Tiria Moore walked free. Make it make sense? The only person Aileen ever loved, the only person who made her feel human, and Tyria sold her out in eleven phone calls to save herself. Will tell you that's justice, that Tyria made the right choice, that she was a victim too, trapped with a serial killer, doing what she had to do to survive. But here's what the record shows. Tyria Moore lived with Aileen Warnos through the entire killing spree. Saw the stolen cars, saw the stolen property, spent the stolen money, knew exactly what was happening, and never went to police, never tried to stop it, never did anything except benefit from it. Then when she got caught, she traded alien's life for her freedom and walked away without a scratch. Your tax dollars at work. The trial ten minutes, January fourteenth, nineteen ninety two, Volucia County Circuit Court, d Land, Florida, Judge Uriel Blount, Junior, Presiding State of Florida versus Aileen Carrol Warnos, charged with first degree murder of Richard Mallory, one count. The state was smart, they'd try her for the first killing, the one where she claimed self defense if they could get a conviction on that one. The other six would be easy. Lead Prosecutor John Tanner, Assistant State Attorney defense public defenders Tricia Jenkins, William Miller, and Billy Knowles. Aileen couldn't afford private attorneys got whatever overworked

10:18 underfunded public defenders the state assigned. The prosecution's theory was simple, Aileen Warnos was a cold blooded serial killer who murdered Richard Mallory for his money and car. Self defense was a lie. Evidence proved premeditation, robbery and murder one. The defense's theory, Aileen Warnos was a prostitute who'd been raped, beaten, and abused by John's her entire life. Richard Mallory violently raped her on November thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine. She fought back, shot him in self defense, then panicked, took his car, and fled. Didn't go to police because she was a prostitute with a criminal record who knew nobody would believe her.

11:02 Both theories made sense, Both could be true. The jury would decide which one they believed. Jury selection took three days. Mostly white, mostly middle aged, mostly middle class people who'd never been prostitutes, never lived on the streets, never been in Aleen's world. They were going to judge her through their lens, their morality, their understanding of right and wrong. January fourteenth, Opening statements, Prosecutor John Tanner laid out the case methodical, factual, clinical. Richard Mallory, fifty one, electronics repair shop owner, disappeared November thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine. Body found December thirteenth in the woods off E seventy five, shot three times with a point two two caliber pistol, once in the left shoulder, once in the chest, once in the neck. Medical examiner testified at least one shot was fired from behind while Mallory was turned away, possibly fleeing.

12:08 Mallory's Cadillac was found abandoned, his belongings pawned at shops in DAYTONA beach thumb print on the pawn shop records matched Aileen Warnos. She'd used a fake name, Cammi marsh Green, but her print gave her away. Ballistics matched the twenty two pistol found in Aileen's possession when she was arrested. Same gun killed Mallory, Same gun killed Spears, Carscadden, Buris, Humphreys, Antonio, seven men, one gun, one killer, Tanner played Aleen's confession tape, her voice, matter of fact, I killed him. I shot him. I took his money and his car. I'd do it again. But then the defense got their turn, and they told a different story. Tricia Jenkins, lead defense attorney, stood before the jury, described Aileen's life raped as a child, pregnant at fourteen, homeless at fifteen, prostituting to survive, thirty three years old, working Interstate seventy five, getting into cars with strange men because that's the only way she knew how to make money. November thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine, Aileen got into Richard Mallory's Cadillac. They agreed on fifty dollars. He drove to a remote dirt road. Then he became violent.

13:27 Aileen testified in her own defense. Took the stand January twenty third. Wore a blue dress, hair pulled back, glasses, looked small, vulnerable, spoke in a quiet voice. She told the jury he raped me. He tied my wrists to the steering wheel with my own belt. He told me to shut up or he'd kill me. He'd beat me. He sodomized me. I was screaming, I was crying. He said nobody could hear me, that he was going to kill me. When he was done, she said, she managed to get her gun from her bag shot him. I thought he was going to kill me. I had to stop him. It was him or me. The prosecutor cross examined her hard, relentless. Why did you shoot him three times?

14:13 Why did you take his money? Why did you take his car? Why didn't you call police? Why didn't you report the rape? Aileen tried to answer, because I'm a prostitute, because I have a record, because nobody would believe me, because I was scared. But you weren't too scared upawn his belongings. You weren't too scared to drive his car around for two weeks. You weren't too scared to keep killing. That's what destroyed her, not the first killing, the six that came after. If Richard Mallory really raped her, if that first killing really was self defense, why did she keep killing? Why six more men? Why thirteen months of murder?

14:55 Aileen had no good answer. I don't know. I needed money, he needed their cars. I don't know. But here's the critical fact. The jury never heard the fact that wasn't discovered until years later, the fact that might have changed everything. Richard Mallory had a criminal record. Convicted in nineteen fifty seven in Maryland attempted rape, violent sexual assault, served ten years in prison. The defense didn't know, Prosecutors didn't disclose it. Possibly didn't know either. Background checks in nineteen ninety two weren't as thorough. His Maryland conviction didn't show up in Florida records, so nobody knew. Nobody told the jury. Nobody presented evidence that Richard Mallory was exactly the kind of violent rapist Aileen said he was. Imagine if the jury had heard that, ladies and gentlemen, the victim in this case spent ten years in prison for attempting to violently rape another woman. The defendant claims he raped her. Is that claim really so unbelievable? But they didn't hear it.

15:58 They just heard prostitute kills john, takes his money, takes his car, keeps killing serial killer. January twenty seventh, nineteen ninety two. The jury deliberated ninety one minutes, less than two hours. They'd heard two weeks of testimony, seen crime scene photos, heard expert witnesses, listened to Aileen's confession, watched her testify ninety one minutes. That's all it took to decide the verdict guilty of first degree murder. Aileen showed no emotion, just sat there, staring straight ahead. The only person she'd ever loved had betrayed her. The system had failed her again, same as it always had, same as her whole life. January thirty first, nineteen ninety two sentencing hearing, Judge Blount asked if Aileen had anything to say. She stood, looked at the judge said I'm innocent. I was raped.

16:52 I hope you get raped scumbags of America. Thank you. Judge Blount sentenced her to death. Electrocution fled, Florida's preferred method at the time, later switched to lethal injection. One down, six to go. March nineteen ninety two. Rather than face six more trials, Aileen took a deal, pleaded guilty to the murders of David Spears, Charles Carscadden, Troy Burris, Dick Humphreys, and Walter Antonio. Pleaded no contest to Peter Seems's murder. Body was never found, but she confessed five more death sentences six total, plus nine hundred and fifty seven years for various robbery and firearms charges. Aileen Warnos, thirty five years old, was going to die in prison. The only question was when the jury in the Mallory trial was later interviewed asked if knowing about his rape conviction would have changed their verdict. Some said yes, some said maybe.

17:51 Some said they still would have convicted her because of the other six murders, but will never know because they didn't hear it. And Aleen Warnos was condemned to death based on incomplete information. Your tax dollars at work. A woman claims self defense against a convicted rapist, the jury never hears he was a convicted rapist, She gets the death penalty. Make it make sense. We'll be right back with Aileen Warnos on death row, her mental deterioration, her paranoid delusions, her demand to be executed, and October ninth, two thousand and two, the Dave, Florida gave her exactly what she wanted. Aileen Warnos arrived at Broward Correctional Institution in Pembroke Pines, Florida, death row for women. Maximum security death row is different from general population solitary confinement twenty three hours a day in a six x nine foot cell, one hour of exercise, no contact visits, no physical touch except handcuff when guards move you. Alien was assigned cell number twenty two. Concrete walls, steel door, small window, toilet, sink, bed, nothing else. For the first few years, she maintained hope.

19:13 Appeals were automatic. Death penalty cases take years, sometimes decades. Maybe the appeals court would overturn her conviction. Maybe they'd discover the evidence about Mallory's rape conviction. Maybe something would save her. She got mail, lots of it. Supporters from around the world, women who saw themselves in her story, abuse survivors, former prostitutes, people who believed she'd been railroaded. They sent money to her commissary account. She bought cigarettes, magazines, snacks, small comforts. She also got hate mail, people calling her evil, telling her she deserved to die, describing in detail how they hoped she'd suffer during execution. Aileen read it all good and bad, wrote responses to explain herself, tried to make people understand. But as the years passed, something changed.

20:07 Her mental health deteriorated. Paranoid delusions emerged. She started believing the prison staff was conspiring against her. She told visitors, they're poisoning my food, making me fat so everyone will laugh at me. They put chemicals in it to humiliate me. They're torturing me with radio waves, beaming sounds into my cell at night. I can't sleep. They're trying to drive me insane. They're making money off me, selling my story. Everyone's profiting except me. That last one was true. Multiple documentaries had been made, books written, movies in development. Everyone was profiting from Aileen Warnos's story. Lawyers, filmmakers, journalists, everyone except Aileen. Nineteen ninety two, British filmmaker Nick Broomfield released Aileen Warnos, The Selling of a Serial Killer. Interviewed Aileen in prison, exposed how her adoptive mother and lawyer were trying to sell her story for profit. Showed the exploitation happening in real time. Aileen was furious, felt used, felt like even in prison, people were taking from her, same as her whole life, people using her, taking what they wanted, leaving her with nothing. Her paranoia grew. She believed corrections officers were plotting to kill her. Believed other inmates were hired assassins. Believed everyone was part of a massive conspiracy.

21:33 Some of it was mental illness, some of it was PTSD from decades of abuse. Some of it was the reality of death row, isolation, deprivation, waiting to die that breaks people, even people who aren't already broken. By two thousand and one, Aileen was done, done fighting, done appealing, done waiting. She fired her lawyers announced she wanted to die. I killed those men, I robbed them as hold his ice, and I'd do it again too. There's no point in keeping me alive. Just execute me, get it over with. Her lawyers tried to stop her. Filed motions, arguing she was mentally incompetent, that she couldn't make rational decisions, that executing someone with her level of mental illness violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. The state brought in psychiatrists evaluated her, Asked if she understood she was going to die, Asked if she understood the appeals process, Asked if she was competent to make this decision. The psychiatrist said, yes, she understood, she was competent, she wanted to die, and she had the legal right to drop her appeals. That's how low the bar is for competency and death penalty cases. You don't have to be mentally healthy, you don't have to be free from delusions. You just have to understand that you're going to be executed and that appeals could delay it. That's it. That's the standard.

23:00 Aileen understood she was going to die. She wanted it to happen. Therefore, she was competent. Make it make sense. A woman with obvious paranoid delusions, obvious PTSD, obvious severe mental illness, and the state says she's competent enough to demand her own execution your tax dollars at work. The Florida Supreme Court agreed, ruled Aileen was competent to drop her appeals, scheduled execution for October ninth, two thousand and two. In her final months, Aileen gave interviews, told reporters, I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again. Changed her story about the murders. Now claimed all seven victims tried to rape her. All seven contradicted her earlier confession where she said six were just robbery murders. Now said they were all self defense. Was she lying before lying?

23:55 Now genuinely couldn't remember, had the delusions taken over complete. Nobody knew, nobody could tell what was truth and what was psychosis. But it didn't matter. The execution was scheduled. Florida was going to kill Aileen Warnos, and she was going to let them. October ninth, two thousand and two, Florida State Prison, Starka, Florida, nine narra Am Aileen Warnos, forty six years old, was led from her cell to the execution chamber. She'd been on death row for ten years and eight months, longer than she'd expected, not as long as some. Florida had switched from electrocution to lethal injection in two thousand three. Drugs first sodium thiopental, a sedative that renders you unconscious, Second pancuronium bromide, a paralytic that stops breathing. Third potassium chloride, which stops the heart.

24:57 Aileen was strapped to a gurney, armed extended ivs inserted into both arms back up in case one failed. She was covered with a white sheet up to her chest. Witnesses were present Arlene Prala, Aileen's adoptive mother. Strange story there. Prala was a born again Christian who adopted Aileen while she was in prison, said God told her to wanted to save Aileen's soul. Dawn Botkins, Aileen's childhood friend from Michigan, one of the few people from her past who never abandoned her. Media witnesses, victim family representatives, prison officials all watching through the glass. The warden asked if Aileen had any final words. She did, Yes, I'd just like to say, I'm sailing with the rock and I'll be back, like Independence Day with Jesus June sixth, like the movie Big Mothership and all I'll be back. I'll be back incoherent delusional rambling about the movie Independence Day, about motherships, about coming back with Jesus, the words of someone clearly obviously mentally ill, but legally competent enough to be executed. Nine forty seven am, the first drug was administered, sodium thiopental.

26:14 Aileen's eyes closed, She appeared to lose consciousness within seconds, then the paralytic her breathing stopped, body went still, then potassium chloride. Heart stopped. Nine forty seven a m pronounced dead. Aileen Carol Warnos, forty six years old born February twenty ninth, nineteen fifty six. Died October ninth, two thousand and two. Her body was removed, transported to a funeral home, cremated per her wishes, no funeral, no service, no mourners. Her ashes were given to Don Botkins. Dawn scattered them under a tree in Michigan, same woods where Aleen had lived as a homeless teenager, where she'd slept in abandoned cars, where she'd traded sex for food. Aileen Warnos came from those woods, and in the end, that's where she returned.

27:08 Outside the prison, protesters gathered two groups. One side justice for the victims, execute the killer, the other side, don't execute the mentally ill. Aileen was a victim too. Both sides were right, both sides were wrong because Aileen Warnos was both victim and killer, abused and abuser, destroyed and destroyer. News helicopters circled overhead. Reporters broadcast live America's first female serial killer has been executed. Made it sound like an accomplishment, like she'd achieved something. First woman to kill like a man, first woman to hunt like male serial killers hunt. But she wasn't celebrated. She was executed and the story was finally over. Except it wasn't. Because people can't stop talking about Aileen Warnos, can't stop making movies about her, documentaries about her, podcasts about her Netflix series about her. We keep coming back to her story, keep trying to understand, keep asking the same questions, what makes someone capable of this?

28:19 Where does the victim end and the monster begin? And what does it say about us that we created the circumstances that turned Aileen Warnos into a killer then executed her for it. Tiria Moore didn't attend the execution, didn't make a statement, didn't acknowledge Aileen's death, just stayed in Pennsylvania, stayed hidden, stayed silent. The only person Aileen ever loved, and Tyria couldn't even watch her die. Why do we keep talking about Aileen Warnos? Twenty three years since her execution, thirty five years since her first murder, and we're still making documentaries, still debating, still arguing about whether she was a victim or a villain. Here's the truth, she was both.

29:05 Alien Warnos was failed by every system designed to protect children. Raped as a child, nobody stopped it, pregnant at fourteen, nobody helped her homeless at fifteen, nobody intervened. Prostituting to survive, nobody offered alternatives. Then when she snapped, when she started killing, when she became the monster society created. America was shocked, How could this happen? How could a woman do this? But the warning signs were everywhere, decades of abuse, decades of violence, decades of trauma. Nobody paid attention. Nobody cared because she was poor, because she was a prostitute, because she was trash, until she killed seven men. Then suddenly everyone cared. The self defense debate continues. If Richard Mallory did rape her, and he probably did given his history, was that killing justified? Most people say, yes, self defense is a fundamental right. But then she kept killing six more men, and that's where the sympathy ends. You can claim self defense once, maybe twice, but seven times that's a pattern. That's predation, that's serial murder. Unless unless you're someone who's been raped, beaten, and brutalized by men your entire life, someone who learned that men are dangerous, that johns are violent, that every transaction might end with you dead.

30:29 Then maybe after killing one in self defense, you start seeing them all as potential threats. Start shooting first, Start taking what you can before they take from you. I'm not justifying it, I'm explaining it. There's a difference. The cultural impact is undeniable. Two thousand and three, Charlie's Thuran won an Oscar for playing Aileen in Monster. Transformed herself, gained weight, wore prosthetic teeth, disappeared into the role, made people see Aileen as human, made people understand her pain. Critics said the movie humanized a killer, romanticized her crimes, made her sympathetic. And maybe they're right, but maybe people needed to see Aileen Warnos as more than just a serial killer, needed to see the child who was raped, the teenager who was abandoned, the woman who was broken long before she started breaking others. Twenty twenty five, Netflix released Aileen, Queen of the serial Killers. Different approach, more focus on the crimes, the victims, the investigation, less sympathetic, more critical. Both versions are true, both are incomplete because Aileen Warnos can't be reduced to a single narrative. She's not just a victim, she's not just a killer. She's the thing that happens when society abandons its most vulnerable people, then acts surprised when they turn violent. Sex workers are eighteen times more likely to be murdered than the average woman,

32:01 eighteen times their society's most vulnerable population. No legal protection, no recourse when they're assaulted, when they're robbed, when they're raped. They can't go to police, can't file reports, can't seek justice. So when Aileen Warnos started shooting John's, part of me understands why not condoning it, not justifying it, but understanding it. She spent her entire life being victimized by men, and one day she started shooting back. The seven men she killed weren't innocent. They were Johns, They were soliciting illegal prostitution. Some had criminal records. Richard Mallory was a convicted rapist.

32:43 But they were also human beings, fathers, sons, husbands, workers, people who didn't deserve to die on the side of Interstate seventy five. Both things are true. The victims weren't angels, but they didn't deserve murder. And Aileen Warnos wasn't a monster, but she was a killer. Welcome to the moral complexity of real crime. Nothing is simple, nobody is purely good or purely evil. Everyone exists in the gray area between victim and perpetrator, and sometimes the person who's been victimized their entire life becomes the perpetrator, becomes the thing they feared most, becomes the monster. That's Aileen Warnos's legacy, not that she was America's first female serial killer, but that she was America's failure. Proof that when you abandon children, when you ignore abuse, when you criminalize survival, eventually someone breaks, and when they break, people die. That's part two of our Aleen Warnos Special. October ninth, two thousand and two, Florida executed a woman who was raped as a child, abandoned by everyone, driven insane by trauma and isolation. Was she a serial killer? Yes? Did she murder seven men? Yes?

34:01 But America created Aileen Warnos then decided she was too broken to fix, so they killed her. Let's remember the victims, all of them. Richard Mallory fifty one, convicted rapist, Yes, but still someone's son, shot three times on November thirtieth, nineteen eighty nine. David Spears forty three, construction worker, father, shot six times. Charles Carscadden, forty rodeo worker from Missouri, shot nine times. Peter Siems, sixty five, missionary Christian, his body never found. Troy Burris, fifty sausage salesman killed on Independence Day. Dick Humphreys, fifty six Air Force veteran, former police chief, shot seven times. Walter Antonio, sixty reserved police officer killed on his wife's birthday, shot four times. Seven men, seven families destroyed. They weren't perfect, some were criminals, were John's, but they didn't deserve to die. And Aileen Carol Warnos forty six, raped at seven, pregnant at fourteen, homeless at fifteen, prostitute at sixteen, serial killer at thirty three, executed at forty six. Born February twenty ninth, nineteen fifty six, died October ninth, two thousand and two. Ashes scattered in the Michigan Woods where she once slept as a child. She killed seven men. She deserved to be punished, but she

35:32 also deserved to be helped, and nobody helped her. Not when she was seven and being raped, not when she was fourteen and pregnant, not when she was fifteen and homeless. Nobody. So she grew up broken, and when broken, people break completely this is what happens. Tyria Moore got immunity, changed her name, disappeared, lived somewhere in Pennsylvania, never spoke publicly, never expressed remorse, never acknowledged her role in Aileen's life or death. The only person Aileen ever loved, and Tia betrayed her. In eleven phone calls. Someone has to say their names, the seven victims and the woman who killed them, because this story doesn't have heroes, just people destroyed by circumstance, by trauma, by America's failure to protect its most vulnerable.

36:22 Make it make sense. A child is raped for years, nobody intervenes, She becomes a prostitute to survive, gets raped by John's, finally kills one in self defense, then can't stop killing, and America calls her a monster, executes her. Acts shocked that this happened, But we created her. Society created Aileen Warnos, then killed her for being exactly what we made her. I'm read Carter, this is Celebrity Trials. We covered Aileen Warnos because her story forces us to ask uncomfortable questions about how we treat abuse victims, about how we criminalize sex work, about how we abandon and children about who deserves mercy and who deserves death, and thirty five years later, we still don't have good answers.

37:07 Rest in peace to all seven victims, and rest in peace to Aileen. All of them deserved better than they got. This is celebrity trials.