Monster: Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

Wuornos: I don’t understand why I would have… what would an attorney do? Help me from keeping… getting the death penalty?

Munster: I don’t know that.

Wuornos: I don’t know. I don’t know that either.

Munster: It’s your decision, Lee, I can’t make it for you.

Wuornos: If I did get the death penalty, do they stick you in a little room all the time? Munster: I don’t know. I don’t know.

Wuornos: I’m a good person inside, but when I get drunk, I don’t know what happens when somebody messes with me. When somebody hassles me, I mean, I’m like, don’t fuck with me.

Munster: Yeah.

Wuornos: I mean anybody would be like that. And… in other words, really deep inside I was going to… when I was a little girl I always wanted to be a nun. And when I got older, I wanted to be a missionary, and I really got into… then I had some back problems. Then I fell in love with somebody and I had bad… when I love somebody, I love them all the way. But what I did, I don’t understand why I did it. I just don’t. I just know that they… they kind of gave me a hassle. When somebody gave me a hassle, I decided to whip out my gun and give it to them. Of course I didn’t really want to kill them in my heart, but I knew I had to. Because I knew, if I left some witness, then they’d find out who I was and then I’d get caught. I have to tell. I have to tell the truth.

When gently pressed further, Aileen started to open up while Munster and Horzepa wisely kept quiet. As any first-rate interrogator knows, they would have to listen to claptrap before they got to the most important issues at hand. Allow the suspect to waffle on and on before getting to the nub of the matter – a straight confession to multiple homicide.