AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS FEMALE SERIAL KILLER

 

• BORN: February 29, 1956, in Rochester Michigan Aileen Wuornos was born (Aileen Wuornos).

• Her brother and her were raised by their grandmother after their father, a child molester and psychopath, hanged himself in prison and her mother abandoned them in the 60’s (Aileen Wuornos).

• Wuornos at the age of 14 got pregnant and claimed that her brother was the father (Aileen Wuornos).

• After giving the baby up for adoption she began hitchhiking across america working as a prostitute (Aileen Wuornos).

• Her brother and her were raised by their grandmother after their father, a child molester and psychopath, hanged himself in prison and her mother abandoned them in the 60’s (Aileen Wuornos).

• Aileen's grandparents which raised her were both abusive (Coming Clean).

• In 1971 Aileen and her brother are thrown out after their grandmother had died of cancer (Smith, 148).

• At young age Aileen was kicked out of her house and lived in the nearby woods down the street from her house (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer).

• In 1976 her brother died of throat cancer (Smith, 148).

• Soon after leaving home Aileen fell in love with a young waitress Tyria Moore, and the couple stayed together for four years (Aileen Wuornos).

• The only person Aileen cared for in her life was Tyria Moore (Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer).

• Wuornos and Moore barely survived on Aileens meager income from prostitution. She and Moore decided that she would rob her “customers” (Aileen Wuornos).

• 1989 - 1990 a string of deaths had police baffled. All were men and they had all been killed by small calibre gun (Smith, 149).

  • Richard Mallory - December 1989

  • David Spears - May 1990

  • Charles Carskaddon - May/June 1990

  • Peter Siems  - June 1990

  • Troy Buress - July 1990

  • Dick Humphreys - September 1990

  • Walter Antonio - November 1990

• Tyria to save herself, went to the Florida police, and then, via a taped call to Aileen after she’d been arrested, persuaded her to confess. She did, but she said every one of her victims had beaten and raped her (Smith, 149).

• On January 14, 1992, Wuornos went to trial for the murder of Richard Mallory. (Macleod, Marlee)

• With a unanimous verdict, they recommended that Judge Blount sentence her to the electric chair. He did so on January 31 (Macleod, Marlee).

• Gov. Jeb Bush signed death warrant for two inmates including serial killer Aileen Wuornos (Lelis, Ludmilla).

• Aileen Wuornos was executed by lethal injection at 9:47 a.m.,Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, more than a decade after she murdered six men along central Florida highways while working as a prostitute. The execution took place at Florida State Prison near Starke, Florida (Macleod, Marlee).

• APPEAL:

  • Aileen Wournos' appeal from the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, in and for Volusia COunty, State of Florida.