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  2. Aileen Carol Wuornos (/ ˈ w ɔːr n oʊ s /; 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.

  3. Oct 5, 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.

    • John Philip Jenkins
    • The Troubled Early Life of Aileen Wuornos
    • How Wuornos Tried to Escape Her Trauma
    • How Aileen Wuornos’ Killing Rampage Began
    • The Betrayal That Led to Aileen Wuornos’ Capture
    • The Controversial Trial and Execution of A “Monster”

    If a psychologist was challenged to invent a childhood that would predictably produce a serial killer, Aileen Wuornos’ life would have been it to the last detail. Wuornos found prostitution early in life, trading sexual favors at her elementary school for cigarettes and other treats at age 11. Of course, she didn’t just pick up the habit on her own...

    At the age of 20, Aileen Wuornos tried to escape her life by hitchhiking to Florida and marrying a 69-year-old man named Lewis Fell. Fell was a successful businessman who had settled into semi-retirement as the president of a yacht club. Wuornos moved in with him and immediately started getting into trouble with local law enforcement. She frequentl...

    Aileen Wuornos told conflicting stories about her murders. Sometimes, she claimed to have been the victim of rape or attempted rape with every single one of the men she killed. At other times, she admitted she was trying to rob them. Depending on who she was talking to, her story changed. As it happens, her first victim, Richard Mallory, actually w...

    It didn’t take long for Tyria Moore to flip on Aileen Wuornos. In the days immediately following her arrest, Moore was back in Florida, staying at a motel the police had rented for her. There, she made calls to Wuornos in an attempt to elicit a confession that could be used against her. In these calls, Moore acted up a storm, pretending to be frigh...

    Aileen Wuornos went on trial for the murder of Richard Mallory on January 16, 1992, and was convicted two weeks later. The sentence was death. Around a month after, she pleaded no contest to three more murders, for which the sentences were also death. In June 1992, Wuornos plead guilty to the murder of Charles Carskaddon and was given yet another d...

  4. 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. For decades, the gruesome crimes of such repeat killers as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and David Berkowitz seemed to establish a basic profile of the serial killer ...

    • William J. Wright
  5. From late 1989 through late 1990, the bodies of 7 middle-aged white men were discovered in central Florida. The assailant had robbed all of the victims before shooting them to death and stealing their cars. Richard Mallory.

  6. Nov 28, 2023 · Known as Americas 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...

  7. Apr 20, 2023 · Branded “The Damsel of Death” and the “Highway Hooker,” Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men between 1989 and 1990 while she hitchhiked around Florida. After her arrest in 1991, Wuornos quickly gained notoriety as “America’s first female serial killer.”.

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