Monster: Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

Munster: Who’s Susan Blahovec?

Wuornos: Oh, well, that’s another fake ID I had.

Munster: How’d you get that one?

Wuornos: Oh, Lord, let’s see, how did I get… oh, this guy in the Keys had a birth certificate and he told me to use it for… because I had a suspended driver’s licence and he told me I could use that ID. Oh… because… and I had… I think I had a… that forgery warrant was at that time, I think. I had that on me. And he told me I could use this ID, that it was his wife’s ID, that she had never… he hated his wife, big time. And that I could… she’s never been in trouble and that I could turn that birth certificate and licence, but you don’t get into trouble with it, you know, just use it for driving and stuff, so I did.

Munster: All right. I think that’s…

Wuornos: How in the world did you find out about Susan Blahovec now?

Munster: Oh…

Wuornos: And did I put my name on a motel as that or something?

Munster: No. You got some tickets with it.

Wuornos: Oh, OK, I remember that. All right.

Munster: I know about the time in 1974, you were arrested under the name of Sandra Beatrice Kretch.

Wuornos: Yeah.

Munster: Your neighbour.

Wuornos: Yeah. I was… I was young and she was 33 or something and the judge couldn’t… I spent ten days in jail for that one. She got away with having to go to jail on her damn ticket.

Munster: How far did you go in high school?

Wuornos: Tenth and a half grade.

Munster: Why’d you quit?

Wuornos: Because my mother died and my father wouldn’t let me stay at home and I was living out on the street. I just want… to know that I hope to God, that you guys do understand that Ty is not involved with this. She doesn’t know. She thought that I had these cars rented or… or borrowed them and all this jazz, and she wasn’t too… too aware of what I was doing. I mean, she didn’t know… exactly what was happening. I mean I… when I’d get drunk I’d say shit from the top of my head just to try to be a bad ass, because I was drunk. And… but she didn’t have anything to do with these murders. She didn’t have anything to do with anything. She just worked, ate, slept, stayed at home, went to volleyball practice and was just a good gal… I’ve dealt with a hundred thousand guys. But these guys are the only guys that gave me a problem and they started giving me a problem just this year… the year that went by. So I, at the same time I was staying with some guy and I noticed that he had some guns and I ripped off his .22, a nine-shot deal… So when I’d get hassle, if the person gave me my money and then started hassling me, that’s when I started taking retaliation… I just wish I never would have done this shit. And I just wish I never would have done what I did. I still have to say to myself, I still say that it was in self-defence… Really inside, right inside me, I’m a good person. But, when I get drunk, like I said, I’d be drinking with these guys and… and when they started messing with me, I wouldn’t tou— I would never hurt nobody. But, if they messed with me, then I would. I’d just… I have to say I was… I’d get just as violent as they would get on me… to try and protect myself.

Munster: I know what I wanted to ask you. You said that you put the gun and a flashlight, some handcuffs into the water.

Wuornos: Oh, yeah.

Munster: Over by the bridge around Fairview. Now you walked to the… on the bridge there… were you in the middle or towards one side or the other?

Wuornos: Oh, when you go over the bridge…

Munster: Uh, huh.

Wuornos:… there’s the other little bank there…

Munster: Uh, huh.

Wuornos:… and it’s right underneath the bridge there.

Munster: OK.

Horzepa: Is it actually in the water or did you hide it up underneath the bridge?

Wuornos: No, it’s… it’s in the water.

Munster: OK. You took the gun and threw it underneath there?

Wuornos: Yes.

Munster: Now did you throw the handcuffs someplace else?

Wuornos: No, I just dropped them along… they’re straight down… yeah.

Munster: All right.

Horzepa: Could you see them when they hit… hit the bottom of the…

Wuornos: No, but I know it’s waist deep… around there. Because some guy said he had cemented that part out there. And he had to get his net untangled from the crab trap and he told me it’s about anywhere from here to there, in the water.

Horzepa: Lee, would you be willing, if we needed you to, uh, go out with us to try to locate that .22 that you threw into the water… if you can show us the exact location where you had tossed it? Would you be willing to do that for us, Lee?

Wuornos: I am willing to do anything. I want to just let you know I’m the only one involved in this deal… stuff… shit.

Horzepa: Also, too, uh, later on, would you be willing to talk to other investigators…

Wuornos: Oh, no problem.

Horzepa: …if needed, from the other counties that have cases involved.

Wuornos: I want all this out in the open and I want them to know that there’s not two girls. Ty is as innocent as can be. There was only one person. It was me, because I’m a hooker and I got involved with these guys because they were phys— and it was a physical situ— because I’m telling you now, I’m serious, every day when I was hitchhiking, I would meet anywhere from five to eight guys a day and make… now, but some would say no, and some would say yes.

Munster: Mmm… mmm.

Wuornos: And I would make money. But they wouldn’t abuse me or nothing. I’d just do my thing and make my money, stick it in my wallet and go.

Munster: OK. That about wraps it up. All right, now, I’m going turn the tape off and it is 2.21 in the afternoon.

Wuornos: Can I ask you something?

Munster: You certainly can.

Wuornos: Do you mind if I keep these cigarettes because I don’t have any cigarettes at all?

Horzepa: You are quite welcome to them and I’m glad you didn’t ask to keep my jacket.

Wuornos: Oh, yeah, that was warm. Thank you.

Horzepa: Sure, no problem.

Wuornos: I’m very sorry…