Leo Dale Pittman's The Monster

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The Monster
“I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I’ve hated humans for a long time.” Leo Dale Pittman, a psychotic child molester, and Diane Wuornos, a young mother incapable of becoming a mother, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan; Aileen
Wuornos. The decisions Aileen’s parents made will have a dramatic impact on her future decisions. Leo, her father, beat
Aileen night and day until he was arrest for rape and attempted murder of a seven year old girl. He later hung himself on
January 30,1969 in the Kansas State Penitentiary. Diane, her mother, abandoned Aileen and her brother leaving them to there grandparents; Lauri …show more content…

“On March 23,1971 she gave birth to a baby boy, who was given up for immediate adoption.” Shortly after giving birth her grandmother died of liver failure and Lauri, the grandfather, kicked Aileen out of the house. Being fifteen
Noe 1 she had no money, and no place to live, she began supporting herself by being a prostitution, and living in the woods.
After hitch hiking for several months, she met a man; Lewis
Gratz Fell and in 1976 they married. Nine weeks later they were divorced due to assault from Aileen. Being in trouble with the law wasn’t unexpected for Aileen, she stayed in and out of jail for assault, illegal firearms, prostitution and much more. “In
1986 Wuornos met Tyria Moore at a gay bar in Daytona Beach,
Florida, and they began an intense romantic relationship that ended just before Wuornos’ final arrest in 1991. Wuornos’ relationship with Moore was her second relationship with a woman. As a prostitute, her clients were mainly middle aged, low to middle class white men.” As the days turned into month, Tyria became suspicious of Aileen’s activity, and moved in with her parents in Pennsylvania. “Wuornos was arrested on …show more content…

Richard Mallory (51), David Spears (43), Charles Carskaddon
(40), Troy Burress (50), Charles “Dick” Humphrey's (56), Walter
Jeno Antonio (62), Peter Siems (65) were the men Aileen Wuornos confessed of murdering. She claimed to killing these seven men,
Noe 1 by shooting them with a .22 pistol. On January 27,1992 Wuornos pleaded guilty for the death of Richard Mallory and four days later was sentenced to death. March 31,1992 she pleaded no contest for the murders of Dick Humphrey, Troy Burress, and
David Spears and in May was given three more death sentences. In
June 1922 Aileen pleaded guilty for the murder of Charles
Carskaddon and in November received her fifth death sentence.
February 1993 she was sentenced to her sixth death because she pleaded guilty to the murder of Walter Jeno Antonio. Siems body has never been found, therefore; the court system couldn’t charge Wuornos with his murder. The exact dates of finding the victims are listed:
“December 13,1989 Richard Mallory’s body was found with several shots to the chest, but specifically two shots to