Florida Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos’ Memorablia to Hit Auction

You may have thought you had seen it all after reading about a Miami clothing store selling registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s personalized sweatshirt for $11,000. Well, you were wrong.

Later this week, an online site for the true-crime obsessed will be selling items that once belonged to serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who robbed and murdered seven men while working as a sex worker along Florida highways between 1989 and 1990. While she claimed that she killed the men in self-defense, she was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. She was the first woman to fit the FBI’s profile of a serial killer.

However, in her petition to terminate her appeals in 2001, she wrote, “I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice, and I’d do it again, too. There’s no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I’d kill again.” After spending a decade on death row at the now-shuttered Broward Correctional Institution, she was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.

The Brevard County-based True Crime Collective, which describes itself as the “world’s most trusted source for true crime memorabilia,” announced that it has “acquired the largest collection of original Wuornos items in the world” and will be making them available for sale.

Jordan, the owner of True Crime Collective, who requested that he only be identified by his first name, tells New Times that Wuornos had sent these items to her best friend, Dawn Botkins, so she could one day profit from them. While he has purchased items directly from Botkin in the past, Jordan bought this entire collection from a former forensic psychologist who had amassed it over the course of two decades.

“So every item has a handwritten letter of authenticity written out and signed by Dawn, and just to double down on authenticity, not that I had any doubts about any of it, I still had Dawn’s contact info, so I contacted her and said, ‘This collector that I know is looking to part ways with this as a whole and did you sell this to him? Was this original and everything?’ I sent her pictures and she said, ‘Yes, absolutely, he and I had a long-standing relationship. He bought thousands of dollars’ worth of stuff.'”

The items that will be listed on the website include the L.A. Gear sneakers Wuornos was arrested in, the crucifix she wore during her trial and execution, handwritten letters and drawings, the robe from her stint at Volusia County Correctional Facility while awaiting trial, her prison Bible filled with handwritten entries, the last Polaroid that was ever taken of her from inside prison, her prison radio and bandana, and the flip-flops she wore to her execution.

Jordan says the most expensive item will be the sneakers, which he will likely list between $20,000 and $30,000. People have already reached out to inquire about purchasing items, including Zak Bagans, the host of Ghost Adventures, who wants to buy the entire collection for his Haunted Museum in Las Vegas.

“I was like, ‘Listen, I’d be more than happy to sell you some stuff, but I want to give everybody a fair chance first,” he adds.

The True Crime Collective also sells artwork, letters, documents, and personal items from other notorious murderers. For instance, the site lists Charles Manson’s string art spider for $9,000, an Ed Gein-signed card for $5,500, Samuel Little’s signed hand-tracing for $500, and, for those seeking a sinister surprise, a murderabilia mystery box for $50.

If Wuornos’ sneakers don’t sell, Jordan says he and his wife, Maren, will add them to their true crime collection. He plans for the sale to go live on Thursday at 6 p.m.

Aside from walking in her shoes, the morbidly curious can also visit the Last Resort, a Daytona dive bar where Wuornos was arrested and allegedly still drops in, from beyond the grave.