Aileen Wuornos Girlfriend — those three words still carry a strange, haunting chill.
Because behind every true-crime headline and every courtroom scream was a real woman named Tyria Moore — the person Aileen loved, trusted, and ultimately confessed everything to.
And decades later, America still can’t stop wondering: Where is Tyria now?
The woman who loved a killer
Before the cameras, before the death row interviews, there were just two women — Aileen and Tyria — meeting at a Daytona bar in 1986.
She was a motel maid. Aileen was a drifter, surviving on sex work and small hustles. Somehow, in that smoky room, they found each other.
For a while, they tried to build something close to normal. Shared motel rooms, laughter, long drives. Wuornos even tried to quit the road, promising Tyria a “clean life.” But bills piled up, tempers flared, and before long, Aileen was back on Florida highways — this time, with a gun in her purse.
According to People, Tyria depended on Aileen’s income from sex work, not realizing the danger bubbling underneath. But when the killings began, everything changed.
“If I have to confess everything, I will”
By late 1990, police were closing in. When Aileen was arrested outside a biker bar, Tyria was already gone — hiding up north, terrified.
That’s when investigators found her and made a deal: help us get Aileen to talk.
Over three tense days of phone calls from jail, Moore did exactly that. “Ty, I love you,” Aileen said in one of the tapes. “If I have to confess everything just to keep you from getting in trouble, I will.”
And she did.
That call broke open one of America’s darkest true-crime cases.
Wuornos confessed to seven murders — saying she killed in self-defense — but Tyria’s testimony under oath painted a different picture. People reported that Moore’s cooperation was the key that unlocked Wuornos’s conviction and eventual execution in 2002.
It was love, betrayal, and survival — all tangled into one.
The woman who disappeared
After the trial, Tyria Moore disappeared.
No interviews. No press tours. No book deals.
While Charlize Theron’s Oscar-winning Monster fictionalized her as “Selby Wall,” Moore herself refused to take part — not even to correct the record. According to Radio Times, she reportedly lives a quiet life, possibly in Pennsylvania, avoiding all contact with the media.
Can you blame her?
For years, the public treated her like a side character in a horror story — when really, she was someone who’d once been in love and ended up part of a nightmare.
A love story twisted by violence
Aileen Wuornos wasn’t just America’s first female serial killer. She was a woman who believed she was protecting the only person who’d ever loved her.
That’s what makes this story sting decades later.
Every confession, every courtroom outburst, circled back to Tyria.
Even in her final years on death row, Wuornos said she didn’t blame Moore — she blamed the world that used and discarded them both.
And for Tyria, those words must echo still. Imagine hearing that — knowing your voice was the one that made her confess.
Where is Tyria Moore now?
No one truly knows.
Some say she’s working quietly under a new name. Others believe she still keeps a low profile, haunted by what happened.
The new documentary Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers (released October 30, 2025) is reigniting interest — tracing Moore’s role in Aileen’s downfall and love affair. But the woman herself? Still silent.
And that silence might be her loudest statement yet.
The unspoken ending
There’s something almost cinematic about the two of them — two outcasts finding warmth in each other, only to be consumed by the storm they created.
Aileen went to her death still calling Tyria her “soulmate.” Tyria vanished, perhaps trying to find peace somewhere no one knows her name.
Maybe that’s the only ending this story could ever have — not justice, not closure, but quiet.
Decades after Aileen Wuornos’s final words echoed through a Florida prison, her girlfriend’s shadow still lingers. Tyria Moore didn’t pull the trigger — but she carried the emotional aftermath. And maybe that’s the part people forget: the human wreckage left behind when love meets madness.
Because in the end, this wasn’t just the story of a killer.
It was the story of two women who wanted to be seen — and one of them finally couldn’t bear to look.
Nishant Wagh is the founder of The Graval and a seasoned digital journalist with over 15 years of experience covering entertainment, media, and culture. He specializes in breaking news and trending stories told with accuracy, context, and depth.
