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  1. Feb 19, 2021 · It's not surprising that most serial killers turn out to have had horrible childhoods. Convicted killer Aileen Wuornos is no different. Per Film Daily, from 1989 to 1990, Wuornos killed seven men, fatally shooting them after they picked her up hitchhiking. After she was arrested on an outstanding warrant in Florida, authorities listened to her ...

  2. Feb 16, 2021 · 1:17. The story of Aileen Wuornos is the sad tale of a troubled woman with a disastrous childhood. Born in Rochester, Mich., in February 1956, while her parents were in the middle of a divorce, she never met her father, who was in jail at the time. He was a convicted child molester who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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  4. Dec 19, 2023 · Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was convicted for murdering six men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. Wuornos had exhibited unusual sexual behavior as a child before leaving home as a teen and had ...

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  5. Jan 6, 2021 · The Michigan Childhood Home of Serial Killer, Aileen Wuornos. One of history's most notorious serial killers was from Michigan. In 1991, Aileen Wuornos admitted to killing seven men from November 1989 to November 1990. Even though she admitted she was a “hitchhiking hooker”, she explained she shot them in self-defense.

  6. Sep 19, 2019 · Wuornos was a sex worker who fell in love with a woman and spent a decade on death row after a jury found her guilty of seven charges of first-degree murder, though she maintained that she ...

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  7. Dec 7, 2012 · America’s “first female serial killer ,” Aileen Wuornos was executed ten years ago, but a new book edited by Lisa Kester and Daphne Gottlieb gives us the closest thing to Aileen’s ...

  8. Apr 25, 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. Her life was the subject of documentaries and a film, Monster (2003).

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