Crime Film Documentaries

Legal Proceedings: 644 So.2d 1000 (Fla. (1994) (direct appeal to Florida Supreme Court); 514 U.S. 1069 (United States Supreme Court, Petition for Writ of Certiorari) (denied); 676 So. 2d 972 (direct appeal to Florida Supreme Court) (court affirmed convictions and sentence to death); 519 U.S. 968 (United States Supreme Court, petition for writ of certiorari)(denied)

A Second Nick Broofield film on the Aileen Wuornos Case: "Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer" (2003) [1 hr. 29 mins.] [film by Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill]

Bibliography

Aileen Wuornos (wtih Christopher Berry-Dee), Monster: My True Story (London: John Blake Pub., 2004)

____________, Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words (Berkeley, California: Soft Skull Press, 2012) [online text]

Bruce A. Arrigo & Stacey L. Shipley, The Female Homicide Offender: Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004)

Michael Reynolds, Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction and Execution of Female Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos, The Damsel of Death (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's, 2003)

Sue Russell, Lethal Intent: The Shocking True Story of One of America's Most Notorious Female Serial Killers ( Kensington Publishing Corporation/Pinnacle Books, 2002)

Articles

Abbe Smith, The "Monster" in All of Us: When Victims Become Perpetrators, 38 Suffolk U.L. Rev. 367 (2005)

Lynda Hart, Surpassing the Word: Aileen Wuornos, 13 (1) Women & Performance: J. Feminist Theory, 61 (2002)

Kyra Pearson, The Trouble with Aileen Wuornos, Feminism's "First Serial Killer," 4 Communication & Critical/Cultural Stud. 256 (2007)

Tanya Horeck, From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos, 48 (2) Screen 141 (2007)

Miriam Basilio, Corporal Evidence: Representations of Aileen Wuornos, 55 (4) Art J. 56 (1996) [online text]

Bruce A. Arrigo & Ayanna Griffin, Serial Murder and the Case of Aileen Wuornos: Attachment Theory, Psychopathy, and Predatory Aggression, 22 Behav. Sci. Law 375 (2004)

Wade C. Myers, Erik gooch & J. Reid Meloy, The Role of Psychopathy and Sexuality in a Female Serial Killer, 50 (3 J. Forensic Sci. 1 (2005) [online text]

Christine Rogers, Aileen Wuornos; Sympathy for the Devil [online text]

Background

Aileen Wuornos
[Wikipedia]

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Aileen Wuornos Claim of Self-Defense: Phyllis Chesler, A Woman's Right to Self-Defense: The Case of Aileen Carol Wuornos, 66 St. John's L. Rev. 933 (1993)

The World of Truck Stop Killers: Vanessa Veselka, The Truck Stop Killer [GQ, November, 2012]

Dramatization (Film): "Monster" (2003)(starring Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos)
[Internet Movie Database] [Rotten Tomatoes] [Trailer] [Charlize Theron winning Best Actress for "Monster"]

Videos

Wuornos Talking with Nick Broomfield about the Killings
[5:06 mins.][excerpt from Nick Broomfield's "Life and Death of a Serial Killer" (2003)]

Aileen Wuornos Talks to Nick Broomfield
[7:04 mins.] [Interviewed by Nick Broomfield one day before her execution; taken from
the documentary "Life and Death of a Serial Killer" (2003)] [Wuornos in an Angry Tirade] [:50 mins] [talking to Nick Broomfield]

Aileen Wuornos: Damsel of Death [10:00 mins.] Pt2 [10:00 mins.] Pt3 [10:00 mins.] Pt4 [10:00 mins.] Pt5 [2:13 mins.] [A&E, Biography] Aileen Wuornos: Damsel of Death [43:40 mins.]

Confession Tapes
[clip from the documentary"Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer" (1992)]

Steven P. Glazer
[Wuornos defense counsel; clip from the documentary "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer" (1992)]

Photo Montagues

"Ultimate Crimes"
[Odeon Entertainment, featuring interviews with Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Aum Sect Jim Jomes, Fred and Rose West, Harold Shipman, Andrei Chikatilo (Rostov Ripper), Peter Sutcliffe, John Wayne Gacey, and other serial killers]

“Albert Fish” (2007): [Albert Fish Trailer]
["One of the most notorious deviants in the history of crime is profiled in H.H. Holmes director John Borowski's docudrama-style account of the reprehensible transgressions of cannibalistic child murderer and molester Albert Fish. His dark rampage fueled by distorted interpretations of Biblical tales, Fish ritualistically tortured and murdered scores of children in Depression-era New York before being arrested by authorities and executed for his crimes in 1936." ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide]

Films: "Biography: Ted Bundy" (2007); "NBC News Presents: Inside Evil

Jeffrey dahmer and Son of Sam" (2006) ["This feature-length documentary that originally aired as a pair of NBC news reports chronicles the crimes of two of the world's most notorious serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer and David Berkowitz (aka 'the Son of Sam'). Bonus material includes never-before-seen footage from Stone Phillips's exclusive interviews with Dahmer and his father, Lionel, which offer startling new insights into the mind of a cold-blooded murderer." ~ Netflix

Wikipedia]; "Ann Rule Presents: The Stranger Beside Me—The Ted Bundy Story" (2005); "Ted Bundy/Dahmer/Ed Gein" (2003)

Dramatization Film: "Ted Bundy" (2001) ["This biographical horror film begins in Seattle in 1974, where Ted Bundy (Michael Reilly Burke) worked as a polite crisis hotline volunteer. Little did his callers know he was secretly a sexual deviant whose desires become increasingly perverse, until they culminated in his horrific killing spree—crimes that would go unsolved for years. The film follows Bundy's murderous trial through two prison escapes and his eventual execution in Florida." ~ Netflix] [1 hr. 39 min.] [film by Matthew Bright] [Viewers forewarned: This is a disturbing film, and is not recommended for casual viewing.]

Readings: Polly Nelson, Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer (New York: William Morrow, 1994) [This is a fascinating book and I highly recommend it.]

Books: Stephen G. Michaud, et.al., The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy (Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press, 1999); Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me (New York: Signet, 2008); Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth, Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Killer (Irving, Texas: Authorlink Press, 2000); Ted Bundy: The FBI Files (2007); Bonnie M. Rippo, The Professional Serial Killer and the Career of Ted Bundy: An Investigation into the Macabre Identity of the Serial Killer (New York: iUniverse, 2007); Elizabeth Kendall, The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy (Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1981); Steven Winn, Ted Bundy: The Killer Next Door ( New York : Bantam Books, 1979); Robert Keppel, The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer (New York: Pocket Books, 2005); Richard W. Larsen, Bundy: The Deliberate Stranger (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980) [Wikipedia]

Crime Film Documentaries | fall | 2018| James R. Elkins

Crime Film Documentaries
| fall | 2018|

James R. Elkins