Papers On Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29th 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Her parents, Leo Dale Pittman and Diane Wuornos, had a troubled marriage. Her mother was a teen mother who was reckless and wasn’t ready for the responsibilities of being a mother. Her father was a psychopathic child molester. Diane then abandoned Aileen and her older brother, Keith, and Diane’s parents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, then adopted them and cared for them as their own. Aileen was only four at the time. Her adoptive parents (her biological grandparents) were not any better than her parents. Lauri was an abusive parents physically and sexually. And Britta was an abusive alcoholic. From an early age she had sexual contact with Lauri and Keith. At the age of 14 she

She gave birth to a baby boy on March 23rd 1971, he was immediately placed up for adoption. Only months of Aileen being home her grandmother died from liver failure from all her heavy drinking (years later Aileen’s biological mother claimed that Aileen killed her). Her grandfather wanted the kids removed from his care, they then became wards of the court. But then Aileen ran away and started a life of crime, hitchhiking, and prostitution to support herself for the next four years. In May of 1974 she was put in jail in Jefferson County for disorderly conduct, drunk driving and firing a weapon from a vehicle. Two years later when she attacked a bartender, she was arrested in Michigan for assault and disturbing the peace. Hitchhiking got Aileen to Florida and her luck started to change. She met a 69 year old wealthy yacht club president, Lewis Fell. The two then fell in love and got married in 1976. Aileen then went back to her normal ways, fighting in bars, and was sent to jail for assault because of it. Fell annulled the marriage after a few months because a women like that had no place in the high- society life he had. Aileen’s life kept getting worse, her bother Keith died of throat cancer in the same year as the marriage and divorce from

He picked up Aileen on November 30th 1989, she claimed he tried to rape her and that she killed him in self-defense. Mallory had a criminal record for rape but that was not brought up in her trial. Aileen shot Mallory three times with a .22 pistol. She then dumped his body off interstate 95 in the woods and stole his Cadillac. His car was found abandoned outside of Daytona a few days after. Two men found Mallory’s naked body on December 13th 1989. Six months later the next victim was found. 43 year old David Spears. He was a heavy machinery operator from Sarasota. His naked body was found June 1st 1990 in Citrus County. He was shot six times with a .22 pistol. Police found out he had been missing since May 19th, his truck was found days later abandoned in Interstate 75. When Spears was identified another victim was found, naked. This victim was found 30 miles south of Pasco County near Interstate 75 on June 6th. The body was extremely decomposed, police couldn’t identify the man. The fact that he was shot with a .22 and was naked make him linked to the other two victims. Later he was identified as Charles Carskaddon a 40 year old rodeo worker. Police got a real break on July 4th 1990 when Aileen and her girlfriend, Moore, crashed their car in the middle of a heated argument. They left the crash but were described by a witness to the police. The car