In her own words: Aileen Wuornos’ girlfriend on why she didn’t go to police sooner

In Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, Aileen Wuornos’ girlfriend, Tyria Moore, was seemingly replaced with a woman named Shelby. 

Much like the Monster film about Aileen Wuornos, which changed Tyria into Selby Wall, the Netflix adaptation also switched up the girlfriend character. Given that the real Tyria is still alive, it might have been a way for the show to avoid claims of butchering history – even though that conversation is still going on. 

Tyria Moore met the soon-to-be serial killer at a gay bar called Zodiac in South Daytona, Florida, in 1986. They moved fast, moving in together quickly, and Aileen soon referred to her girlfriend as “the love of my life.”

Aileen Wuornos’ first murder came in 1989, when she fatally shot 51-year-old electronics shop owner Richard Mallory after he picked her up in Clearwater. 

When she returned home, she told her girlfriend about it. 

Why didn’t Aileen Wuornos’ girlfriend do anything? 

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Upon returning home to Tyria Moore, Aileen Wuornos admitted she killed a man in cold blood. She then went on to kill six more men, at which point Tyria moved out and went back home. 

But why didn’t she do something earlier? She simply didn’t believe her girlfriend at the time. 

“I didn’t believe it. I know I didn’t like to hear about her work. So I’m sure I didn’t want to hear something like that,” she said at trial. 

Though she did move home, Tyria was crucial in getting her girlfriend put behind bars. In fact, she was the one to get her to confess over a prison phone call. 

At trial, Aileen Wuornos claimed that the men had raped her, but her girlfriend said, “She didn’t appear to be hurt or upset in any way.”

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