THE LAST RESORT: Aileen Wuornos, Seven Men, and the Record Behind the Monster - Softcover

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She confessed to protect the woman she loved. It may have cost her the truth.
In the winter of 1989, men began disappearing from Florida's highways. A shop owner. A construction worker. A rodeo hand. A missionary. A sausage salesman. A retired police chief. A reserve deputy. Seven men, gone within a year, and for months, no one could see they were connected at all.
The woman eventually convicted of their murders would become one of the most famous names in American crime, reduced by three decades of headlines, films, and documentaries to a single word: monster. The Last Resort goes back to where the record actually lives; court transcripts, contemporaneous news reports, appellate opinions, and a peer-reviewed forensic study, to tell a story far more unsettled than the legend.
This is the story of a child abandoned before she could remember it, adopted into a house that never told her the truth. Of a decade-long relationship that ran alongside a killing spree and ended on a recorded jailhouse phone call. Of a trial where a jury never heard the one fact that might have changed everything. Of a lawyer who wanted the spotlight, a mother who wanted a miracle, and investigators who nearly wanted a movie deal. And of a woman who, by the end, could no longer say for certain which version of her own story was true.
Inside, you'll find:

• The full, chronological account of all seven victims, told as the people they were, not just the cases they became
• The undercover operation, the fingerprint that broke the case, and the four days investigators spent waiting for an arrest to go exactly right
• The confession calls, the trial no one expected to move so fast, and the appeal that turned on a fact the jury never heard
• A clear-eyed look at the media circus, the competing diagnoses, and the thirty years of films and documentaries that keep retelling this story, and why none of them agree

Independently researched and written with no ties to any network, The Last Resort doesn't ask you to decide who Aileen Wuornos really was. It gives you the record and lets you weigh it yourself.
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