When most people think of serial killers, infamous male names like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer come to mind. However, history is also filled with women who committed shocking acts of violence, often ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new Netflix docuseries Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers, which premiered Thursday, reexamines the story of Aileen Wuornos, ...

Serial killer shows, like Monster: The Ed Gein Story and the equally as disturbing The Serpentabout Charles Sobhraj, have never been more popular – and most of these stories focus on disturbed men ...

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, a Daytona Beach, Florida, prostitute convicted of killing multiple men and dubbed the "queen of the serial killers," was ready for her close-up after confessing to protect the woman ...

Society has long held women to an impossible standard of perpetual nurturing and gentleness. When Aileen Wuornos burst into headlines in the early 1990s, she shattered this deeply ingrained ...

It was Charlize Theron’s 2003 Oscar-winning turn as female serial killer and prostitute Aileen Wuornos, who brutally killed seven men in 1989 and 1990, that reignited an explosion in movies and TV ...