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May 23, 2023 · YouTubeAileen Wuornos’ girlfriend Tyria Moore cooperated with police to finally put her behind bars. On a humid Florida evening in 1986, Tyria Moore met an exciting blonde named Aileen Wuornos at the Zodiac Bar in Daytona, Florida. Weeks earlier, Moore had left her conservative hometown of Cadiz, Ohio, to fully embrace being a lesbian.
Jul 7, 2022 · Selby Ward's (Christina Ricci) real-life counterpart is named Tyria Moore. While "Monster" depicts Ward as being out of work due to a broken arm, the real Moore was a cleaner at a hotel in Daytona Beach and moved in with Aileen Wuornos in 1986 (per The Sun Daily). In the film, their relationship starts right before Wuornos' first murder, but in ...
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- 10 The Worst Start
- 9Early Abuse
- 8Teenage Pregnancy
- 7Drifting
- 6 Failed Marriage
- 5 Doomed Relationship
- 4 The Victims
- 3 The Betrayal
- 2 Death Penalty
- 1Execution
Born on February 29th, 1956, in Troy, Michigan, Aileen Carol Pittman had one of the worst starts in life. Her father, Leo Dale Pittman, was psychopathic with a history of violence; he was known to a play a twisted game of tieing together two cats by the tail and then throwing them over a clothesline to watch them fight. Her father was diagnosed wit...
In 1960, Wuornos’ and her brother were adopted by their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, but things were not about to get any better. The grandparents allowed the children to grow up believing they were their real parents and subjected them to many cruel beatings. From a young age, Wuornos was beaten with a belt as she bent over a t...
The physical abuse was traumatic for Wuornos and by the time she was 11-years-old her grandfather had begun sexually abusing her. Later in life she even claimed to have had a sexual relationship with her own brother which was witnessed by a childhood friend. At school, Wuornos was also engaging in sex with boys in exchange for loose change and ciga...
The same year Wuornos’ son was adopted, her grandmother Britta died of liver failure. Britta had started to drink heavily to deal with problems in the household like Wuornos’ unwanted pregnancy and Keith’s constant truancy. Following the death of her grandmother, Wuornos was thrown out of the house and forced to make it on her own. She was only 15-...
Shortly after Wuornos was released from prison after serving a year behind bars for firing a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle, she met her future husband. Desperate for the security and affection that she craved, Aileen married wealthy 70-year-old Lewis Gratz who was the President of a yacht club. In 1976, the marriage was announced in the ...
In 1986, Wuornos met 24-year-old Tyria Moore at a Daytona Beach gay bar and the pair started a romantic relationship together. The couple never settled; over the years they changed homes frequently living everywhere from trailers, motel rooms, and even the local woods. Wuornos still continued to prostitute herself on the local highways which earned...
Wuornos’ first known victim was 51-year-old Richard Mallory. In 1989, Wuornos was picked up by Mallory and according to her own testimony, she was tied to the steering wheel and repeatedly attacked. She managed to retrieve her gun from her purse and shot him three times with a .22 pistol in self-defense. She then dumped his body in the woodlands an...
On July 4th, 1990, Wuornos and Moore were in a car accident whilst driving a stolen vehicle belonging to one of her victims. Although they fled from the scene, witnesses provided the police with their names and details. Police also found that Wuornos fingerprints, which were on file from her previous arrests, matched those left behind at the crime ...
During the death penalty phase of the trial, expert psychologist Dr. Bernard testified that Wuornos suffered from a borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. At the time of the crimes, she had impaired capacity and mental disturbance; linked to a history of sexual abuse throughout her childhood and adolescence. They argue...
Wuornos was incarcerated at the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution death row for women for the final years of her life. In 2001, one year before her execution, Wuornos said, “There is no point in sparing me. It’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.” In another statement, she appeared to show no remorse for her crimes, stati...
Along with evidence from the other murders, the prosecution also had a star witness: Tyria Moore. According to the Orlando Sentinel , Wuornos “clutched a handkerchief as Moore's name was called,” and Moore avoided eye contact with Wuornos during her testimony.
Jan 15, 2022 · Circa 1986, 30-year old Aileen first crossed paths with 24-year old Tyria on a night spent bar-hopping in Florida. The two spent the night together and grew close. Aileen’s biographer, Sue Russel, says of that fateful meeting, “From then on, [Aileen and Tyria] became inseparable. That was the anchor that Aileen had been looking for.”.
Nov 28, 2023 · Throughout the 1980s, she was regularly in trouble with the law, engaging in armed robbery, car theft and disorderly conduct, leaving a trail of chaos in her wake. In 1986, she met Tyria Moore, a 24-year-old Daytona Beach motel maid, at a gay bar. They fell in love and Wuornos tried to support Ms Moore with her earnings from sex work.
The lead witness of the trial was Tyria Moore. She told the jury that while she and Wuornos were watching TV, Wuornos confessed that she had killed a man who she had picked up for sex. She produced a photograph of Mallory and showed it to Moore.
