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A Synopsis Of Aileen's Case

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At the age of 12 Aileen found out the truth. She had also said that she was sexually abused by her brother and her grandfather. These claims have never been identified as true or false. However, she became pregnant at the age of 14 and she claimed that Keith (her brother) was the father. She was then sent to a home for unwed mothers. She had a baby boy who was put up for immediate adoption. After the baby was born she soon returned to her home. Not shortly after returning her grandmother died of liver failure. Aileen’s biological mother claims later down the road that Aileen had killed the grandmother. After the grandmother had died the grandfather wanted the 2 children to be removed from his home immediately. The 2 children them became wards of the state; however, they were only wards of the state for a short amount of time. After she ran off away she started a life full of hitchhiking, prostitution, and small crimes. In 1976 she became married to a wealthy man named Lewis Fell. They fell in love in just a short amount of time. Unfortunately Aileen couldn’t stop her downhill spiral and got into fights at bars and was sent to jail for assault. Fell was horrified with this behavior and the got divorced in just a few months. The same year as Fell and her got married Keith (her brother) dies of throat cancer. (Crime …show more content…

December 1989 through September 1990 seven men were killed.. The dates of the murder are as following December 1, 1989, May 19, 1990, May 31, 1990, July 30, 1990, September 11, 1990, and the final one was November 19, 1990. They were all shot by a shotgun, and the relation where drivers picking her up for hitchhiking and prostitution. The men’s names are as followed (in the same order as the dates) Richard Mallory, Dick Humphreys, Charles Carskaddon, Troy Burress, Peter Siems, Walter Jeno Antonio, and David Spears. They were all killed in the state of Florida. Most of the bodies were found

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