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Aileen Carol Wuornos (/ ˈ w ɔːr n oʊ s /; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. [3] In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.
Jul 22, 2024 · Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer who murdered at least seven people in 1989–90. Her case drew national attention to issues such as the relationship between gender and violence and the legal treatment of acts of self-defense by women.
- John Philip Jenkins
- The Troubled Early Life of Aileen Wuornos
- How Wuornos Tried to Escape Her Trauma
- How Aileen Wuornos’ Killing Rampage Began
- The Betrayal That Led to Aileen Wuornos’ Capture
- The Controversial Trial and Execution of A “Monster”
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If a psychologist was challenged to invent a childhood that would predictably produce a serial killer, Aileen Wuornos’ life would have been it to the last detail. Wuornos found prostitution early in life, trading sexual favors at her elementary school for cigarettes and other treats at age 11. Of course, she didn’t just pick up the habit on her own...
At the age of 20, Aileen Wuornos tried to escape her life by hitchhiking to Florida and marrying a 69-year-old man named Lewis Fell. Fell was a successful businessman who had settled into semi-retirement as the president of a yacht club. Wuornos moved in with him and immediately started getting into trouble with local law enforcement. She frequentl...
Aileen Wuornos told conflicting stories about her murders. Sometimes, she claimed to have been the victim of rape or attempted rape with every single one of the men she killed. At other times, she admitted she was trying to rob them. Depending on who she was talking to, her story changed. As it happens, her first victim, Richard Mallory, actually w...
It didn’t take long for Tyria Moore to flip on Aileen Wuornos. In the days immediately following her arrest, Moore was back in Florida, staying at a motel the police had rented for her. There, she made calls to Wuornos in an attempt to elicit a confession that could be used against her. In these calls, Moore acted up a storm, pretending to be frigh...
Aileen Wuornos went on trial for the murder of Richard Mallory on January 16, 1992, and was convicted two weeks later. The sentence was death. Around a month after, she pleaded no contest to three more murders, for which the sentences were also death. In June 1992, Wuornos plead guilty to the murder of Charles Carskaddon and was given yet another d...
Learn about the life and crimes of Aileen Wuornos, a former sex worker who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. Explore her troubled childhood, her conflicting stories, and her execution in 2002.
From late 1989 through late 1990, the bodies of 7 middle-aged white men were discovered in central Florida. The assailant had robbed all of the victims before shooting them to death and stealing their cars. Richard Mallory.
(1994) Over a 12 month period in the US state of Florida, Aileen Wournos killed seven men. She said it was self-defence yet at her trial asked to be executed...
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Feb 1, 2023 · Learn how Aileen Wuornos, a troubled sex worker from Michigan, became America's first female serial killer in the 1990s. Explore her childhood abuse, her crimes, and her controversial trial and execution.
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Learn about Aileen Wuornos, the first female serial killer in America, who murdered seven men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Find out about her childhood, crimes, trial, execution, and media coverage.
