Botkins and Wuornos during a prison visit in 2001. The day before the execution. Botkins and the walnut tree she planted in Wuornos’s memory. The Eagle Has Landed. Ink drawing by Aileen Wuornos. Image courtesy of Amber Hogue. Moon Eagle Valley Ranch. Ink drawing by Aileen Wuornos. Image courtesy of Dave Botkins. Beam Me Up, Scotty. Ink drawing by Aileen Wuornos. Image courtesy of Amber Hogue. Midnight Blue.Ink drawing by Aileen Wuornos. Image courtesy of Dave Botkins.
Dawn’s mother, to whom Wuornos frequently wrote, had been diagnosed with lung disease, and she had heart trouble as well. During Wuornos’s childhood, Mrs. Nieman had been kind when other parents were hostile. She had fed Wuornos and allowed her to use the bathroom and shower at their house. She died November 15, 2009. Wuornos is quoting in the following passage from a religious pamphlet of some kind. This text has been widely reproduced, but the original source is unclear. Smart Alex Lounge in Tampa, Florida. In her letters to Wuornos, Dawn decribed this farmhouse as being nicer than it was, not wanting Wuornos to worry. However, at the time, the farmhouse was exceedingly run down and in desperate need of improvement. From How to Pray, by R.A. Torrey. “Making a Killing” by C. Carr, Mirabella magazine, March 1994, pp. 72 – 73. The article. Wuornos mentioned in a prior letter that she was responding to an article by Karen Avenoso that appeared in the New York Daily News. A reference to Jean Bethke Elshtain, political philosopher, professor, and contributing editor to The New Republic, who was quoted in Avenoso’s article. This is the same episode referenced in Wuornos’s letter of December 9, 1992. A reference to the chief of admissions and releases for the Florida Department of Corrections.
$4,000. Wuornos’s new attorney Tony Alexander, based in England, who was found by Nick Broomfield. Sue Russell, author of Lethal Intent: The Shocking True Story of One of America’s Most Notorious Female Serial Killers! Michael Reynolds, author of Dead Ends. On May 9, 1996, the Florida Supreme Court upheld Wuornos’s convictions and death sentences. Tony Alexander, Wuornos’s new attorney. Dawn and Dave were facing a period of financial hardship. Likely a reference to the 39th District Corruption Scandal, in which a group of Philadelphia police officers were convicted of a long history of brutality and corruption. Fourteen hundred cases were eventually brought under examination for tainting and rights violations, and hundreds were overturned. American swimmer who won four gold medals in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Kerri Strug, American gymnast who vaulted injured, clinching the gold medal for the women’s team. Wuornos wished to confess the details of the killings in exchange for the right of the women on Death Row to smoke.
Arlene Pralle’s husband, Robert. Money order. Wuornos was concerned her account would not have enough money in it to sustain her until her execution. Likely a reference to Joseph Hobson and Kori Anderson, attorney and investigator, respectively, for the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel. Dawn recalls that Wuornos seemed to believe she could counteract what she thought were the prison’s attempts to spy on her by arranging paper or cloth to block out their signals. The “7 an 7” slogan is Wuornos’s shorthand for refuting her self-defense claim. (As she wrote in a letter of March 2, 2002: “7 counts of first degree Murder and 7 counts of Robbery.”) Dawn’s stepfather. The current web address for this story is . Kori Anderson, investigator for the Capital Collateral Regional Counsel. Darlene was Dawn’s close friend. Likely a reference to Court TV producer Mary Beth Ross. Jackie Giroux was suing Wuornos, stating that her exclusive rights to Wuornos’s story had been infringed upon by the police officers’ deal with Republic Pictures. Wuornos was annotating Giroux’s deposition, enumerating all of the statements she believed were lies. Wuornos apparently sent a copy to Dawn as well.