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  1. Apr 25, 2024 · Aileen Wuornos (born February 29, 1956, Rochester, Michigan, U.S.—died October 9, 2002, Starke, Florida) was an 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.

  2. Feb 1, 2023 · By William J. Wright and Paris L. / Updated: Feb. 1, 2023 2:01 pm EST. In 1991, a 35-year-old illegal sex worker from Michigan shattered a long-held myth about serial murder when she confessed to killing seven men in Florida over the course of a year. For decades, the gruesome crimes of such repeat killers as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and ...

  3. Serial killer Aileen Wuornos horrifying final words and haunting vow before she was executed. Story by Florence Freeman. • 6mo • 2 min read. Aileen Wuornos, an American serial killer, gave...

  4. Nov 28, 2023 · Known as America’s first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos carried out a string of notorious and brutal murders along the dark highways of Florida in late 1989 and 1990. A victim of child abuse herself, in adult life Wuornos was a petty criminal who worked as a sex worker.

  5. Oct 10, 2002 · Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways, was executed by injection today after dropping her appeals and firing her lawyers. Ms. Wuornos, 46, became...

  6. Oct 15, 2023 · Between 1989 and 1990, serial killer Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men throughout Florida before being sent to death row and finally executed in 2002. After a childhood of abuse and abandonment, Aileen Wuornos went on a killing rampage that left at least seven men dead in just one year.

  7. www.crimemuseum.org › crime-library › serial-killersAileen Wuornos - Crime Museum

    Aileen Carol Wuornos (1956-2002) was a serial killer who preyed on truck drivers in Florida. Wuornos’ father, Leo Pittman, was a sociopathic child murderer spent time in mental hospitals throughout her childhood and was ultimately killed in prison. When she was four, her and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents.

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