Who is the darkest serial killer?

For whatever reason, I find Aileen Wournos sympathetic.  I've always liked her. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she is female.  My thinking is more along the lines of an animal can be abused for only so long, so don't be surprised when the animal begins to lash out.  If you look at it this way, it makes perfect sense.  Aileen was all alone in the world, she had nobody on her side, no allies, nobody to steer her in the right direction.  I think she saw the world as a dark, scary place with no safety clause and she was killing the people who had hurt her, i.e., men.  I do think if she hadn't been caught, she would have killed more men, but I also feel that behind bars, Aileen could have benefited from rehabilitation and from basic human kindness.  I do find her cases as her being more a spree killer as opposed to a serial killer.  No sure what the min differences are. In the interviews, you can see the kindness and the longing for affection in her eyes.  

That's a very big reason why we are here as a human species.  We look out for each other and we try to help and those who have more - more money, more resources, more education, better mental health, etc. have some kind of duty to not turn away when a 9 year old girl in the community is known to be selling her body and performing sexual favors to neighborhood boys in exchange for cigarettes.  How could a group of adults behave in such a manner?!?!   THEY are the ones who should be in jail!  In cases like this, society is grossly negligent and, therefore, responsible and a 9 year girl was failed at every level.  And this profound lack of love or even the most basic of care was denied to and she must have internalized this hate, this apathy.  If nobody cares about teenage Aileen, then really why should she care about anybody else,  Nobody has deemed her worthy enough to get the girl some help.  14 and pregnant and living in a car in the woods during a brutal Michigan winter?!?  It's really like she is doomed from the start.  And to think that she might just one day turn herself around is unrealistic in the extreme.  Aileen responded in kind.  She fought back, she shot and killed seven men, and she robbed her victims.  I do not think she killed from any sadistic glee.  She never showed any of these signs.  She never tortured any of her victims,(let alone torturing any snall animals!)  she shot them point blank. When she says she is full of hate, I think she is coming from the only place she has ever known.  And then try to walk 1,000 miles in her shoes before you judge her.  Of course, that  might prove to be too frightening and confusing for most people to do that.  Nobody would ever want Aileen's life.  She was an embarrassment to the community and the community would have just assumed she go away forever..   Society showed its worst, most despicable impulses and ultimately they railroaded her.  Get rid of her of and have her done away with so we can feel better about yourselves and move on.

Aileen Wournos is the only killer (male or female) whom I heel such sympathy towards.  She was the ultimate scapegoat for society's ills and I think she should be considered a martyr.  That's all.  



R.I.P., Sweet Aileen