Name Institution Professor Date Female Serial Killer: The Case of Aileen Wuornos There is this erroneous cultural assumption that woman, going by their nature, are not capable of being serial killers. This is a very deadly misconception as research has since proven that one in every six serial killers is a female. Female serial killers are also able to kill for longer periods of time without detection because of the society view women as nonaggressive and emotional beings that are incapable of such atrocities and, therefore, are least suspected in such cases (Cohen 37). A serial killer is defined as a murderer of three victims or more, spaced out at regular intervals that could be a week, a month or any period exceeding a week (Cohen 42). Women, just like men, are capable of being serial killers as is the case with Aileen Wuornos. This paper analyzes female serial killers by taking Aileen Wuornos as the case study. An Overview of Wuornos Life Aileen Wuornos was born in the year 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. She was sexually abused and as a teen she was thrown out of her home (Silva and Danielle 1). Having found