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When the sentence was carried out, there was no neat ending—no moral bow to tie the story together. Just a silence where a deeply troubled life had been.
Aileen Wuornos continues to unsettle people because her story refuses simplicity. She was responsible for horrific acts, and innocent people died. That truth cannot be erased. But neither can the reality that her life was shaped by abandonment, exploitation, and violence long before she ever pulled a trigger. She forces an uncomfortable question that society prefers to avoid: how much damage must be done to a person before they become capable of doing irreparable harm themselves?