Aileen Wuornos



Theft, prostitution, and the murder of seven men in the state of Florida, are a few things that come to mind when mentioning Aileen Wuornos. Aileen Wuornos, a female serial killer, was born on February 29, 1956. She had a very problematic childhood. Her father avoided going to prison for petty crimes by enlisting in the army. Her mother took the chance and fled and left Aileen and her brother Keith with her parents. Aileen’s father was later found guilty of raping a seven year old girl and he hung himself in his prison cell. By the age of ten, Aileen started experimenting sexually with her brother. By the age of 11, she was having sex with boys in exchange for loose change or cigarettes. At 15 she left her grandparents house and lived on the road. She did what she knew best and became a prostitute. Wuornos was arrested for the armed robbery of a mini mart and spent three years in jail. When she was twenty eight, she turned to women for acceptance, a turn that would just get her involved in more problems. Her first victim was Richard Mallory, a 51 year old electronic store owner. He picked her up of off I-95, they parked the car, drank and talked all night. Then she pulled out her gun and shot him four times to the chest and back. Wuornos then took all of his cash, threw his body out, took his car, and dumped it somewhere else. She basically would make money from killing men. The fact that she was a female, and dumped the body and car at different locations made it hard for police to figure out it was her. Between 1989 and 1990 Wuornos killed seven men among the highways of central Florida. Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.