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Aileen Carol WUORNOS. Gun used by Aileen to kill her victims. Police recovered the .22 pistol from a river. She carried. it in a floppy purse while hooking on the highway. Photos of Aileen Carol Wuornos, American serial killer. Victims.
Aileen Carol Wuornos (/ ˈ w ɔːr n oʊ s /; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.
Mar 31, 2021 · Aileen Wuornos will forever live in infamy for robbing several men of their lives and possessions along Florida back roads and highways between December 1989 and September 1990. She claimed self-defense, but some believe she was a brutal misandrist and others believe her tragic childhood set the tone for her predatory future.
The first victim was shop-owner Richard Mallory in 1989, a 51 year-old white man who picked up a prostitute along Interstate 75 in Florida to engage in sex for pay. A Volusia County deputy discovered his body several miles away from his abandoned car.
Jul 6, 2024 · On November 30, 1989, Aileen Wuornos killed her first victim, Richard Mallory. This marked the beginning of a year-long murder spree, where she would go on to kill six more men. Wuornos claimed her actions were in self-defense, alleging that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her.
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.
Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990, claiming they raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute. She was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders and executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
Feb 1, 2023 · 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.
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.
Dec 31, 1995 · At age 15, Wuornos traded her hard life at home for the dangerous world of the streets. She started drinking and taking drugs. And she slept in abandoned cars or wherever else she thought she'd be safe. Security was rare-Wuornos recalled being raped at least five more times before her 18th birthday.
