Mollie Westbrook revisits Aileen Wuornos for The Crime Desk
The Casebook episode shares a three-upload week with reports from Okinawa and Texas.
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What happened to turn Aileen Wuornos into a serial killer? | The Casebook with Mollie Westbrook
Aileen Wuornos's life before the killings is the starting point for Mollie Westbrook's new Casebook episode. The Crime Desk's most watched upload of the week examines her childhood trauma, life along Florida's highways and the investigation that connected her to a series of fatal shootings.
Westbrook also revisits Wuornos's account that she acted in self-defense, alongside the prosecution's portrayal of the killings. The episode frames its central question around how to understand her past without separating it from the deaths. It has drawn roughly 4,400 views since Monday.
The Daily Mail-powered channel's other uploads turn to shorter news reports: a woman killed at a hotel in Okinawa, where a U.S. Marine was taken into custody on suspicion of murder, and a reported knife attack on a husband and children in Northlake, Texas. The Okinawa report is currently adding views faster than either of the week's other new videos, although the Wuornos episode has the larger total audience.
Across the channel, weekly viewing reached about 312,000 views, while the subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is running above its usual level. Nearby in true crime and courts, Criminally Obsessed had a much larger viewing week, while Into The Deep - True Crime drew a smaller audience. For The Crime Desk, the week's distinctive offering was Westbrook's longer look at the history behind a familiar case, alongside its brief reports on new investigations.
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The videos drawing views on The Crime Desk right now
- Channel
- The Crime Desk
- Subscribers
- 226,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 312,182
- Videos published this week
- 3
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 4,413
- Views on its first day
- 2,452
The numbers
Here is The Crime Desk's week in views and subscribers.
