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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 ...
Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was murdered at least six men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. ... Charles “Dick” Humphreys, 56, a child abuse investigator, was found on September 12, 1990. Walter ...
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.
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).
High Standard .22 Revolver. Date apprehended. January 9, 1991. Aileen Carol Wuornos ( / ˈwɔːrnoʊs /; 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.
Following the birth of her child, 15-year-old Aileen Wuornos was allowed, if not accepted, back into her family's home. The pregnancy had embittered an already volatile teenager. "After that, she always said, 'All men are out to use women,'" Wuornos' sister Lori Wuornos Grody told the press at the time of her murder trial. "She said she hated men.
Aileen “Lee” Carol Wuornos was born February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her father was convicted of child molestation after her birth and a few years later killed himself in prison. Wuornos’ mother abandoned her and her brother when they were young, leaving them with her parents, Wuornos’ grandparents, and their children.
