Lethal Intent (Mass Market Paperback)

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That rarest of serial killers - a woman - Aileen 'Lee' Wuornos always craved fame. Long before she was hunted and caught by Florida law enforcement, long before she confessed to killing seven men, she told friends that she wanted to do something "no woman has ever done before" and to have a book about her life. After a decade on Florida's Death Row, as that life was scheduled to end by lethal injection on October 9th, here comes Sue Russell's book, Lethal Intent.

Packed with exclusive material that sheds a different light on this cold-blooded serial killer, Lethal Intent contains new insights and intimate memories from her family, friends and childhood peers. (Peers who lost their virginities to Aileen, who began prostituting herself at a horribly early age.)

Lethal Intent reveals Aileen's devastating double abandonment by her mother before she was age two, the crimes of her father, and the myriad events that helped set her path of destruction. It even contests the widespread superficial judgment of Wuornos as a "man-hating lesbian" via new insights from men with whom she shared sexual and romantic relationships. Lethal Intent also explores the dynamics of her fateful relationship with Tyria Moore, the lesbian lover who knew Aileen was killing yet stayed by her side, and how those dynamics moved Aileen closer to a life of murder. And much, much more…

About the Author

Sue Russell is an author and internationally syndicated journalist. She has had over 1,500 articles and several books published, is an ex-magazine editor, and a longtime contributor to many top British magazines and newspapers. In the U.S., her work has been published in Redbook, US, Good Housekeeping, Success, etc. Sue was born in London but has been based in the United States for the past twenty years and lives in Los Angeles.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (November 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786015187
• ISBN-13: 978-0786015184
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #446,177 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbiased and Good, October 16, 2004

By	Erika R. (Hamilton, Ontario) - See all my reviews

Prior to reading this book my only exposure to Aileen Wuernos was Biography and American Justice on A&E. I found the book both informative and heartbreaking. One wonders how Aileen could have become anything other than what she turned out to be. It seems that from them moment of her birth to her execution she was on a collision course with disaster. After reading this book I have no desire to see "Monster". I don't feel that anymore can be said, or that it could be said better than it was done in this book. If you are interested in Aileen Wuernos' life rather than the sensationalism her crimes became, then I highly recommend this book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Detailed, September 15, 2004

By	Daniel James Macdonald "danufo" (Sydney,Nova Scotia ,Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

You will not find a more exhaustively reseached & readable account of Aileen Wornuos' exploits ! A very good read- highly recommended !

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Very Biased, April 27, 2004

By	Wendi Manning (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've read countless true crime books over the years and I have never come across one where the author seems to hate their subject as much as Sue Russell does. The facts are there, this was a very disturbed woman, and she committed some truly horrific crimes, but if you hate someone this much, why even bother to spend as much time as she obviously did researching her? She has done a fantastic job at digging up facts, some of them really amazing, but from the opening sentence of this book, it's clear that she also considered Aileen Wuornos as worthless as the children in the neighborhood where she grew up. Aileen was not a saint, but I would have liked to have read a book where the author could have kept her hatred even slightly veiled. The movie Monster went for the sympathy, and this book seems to be going for the hatred. Doesn't anyone want to know an unbiased view of this mentally ill woman? I know I do, and this book wasn't it. But the amount of information Sue Russell amassed on Aileen is truly impressive. Read it for that, but ignore ( if you can), the hatred seething from the author.