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The First Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos

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In the sunshine state of Florida, between the years 1989 and1990 seven men were mysteriously murdered. These killings were later found to be the work of a female prostitute, who would find her victims through hitch hiking along Florida’s Highways. She caused the entire state of Florida to be on edge, and it was terrifying for the families of the seven victims. Local law enforcement were stunned by these incidents, and would do everything in their power to solve these cases. The killer who became the first female serial killer, fitting FBI’s profile was Aileen Wuornos. Aileen Wuornos was born in Rochester, Michigan to a young mother named Diane Pittman on February 29, 1956. Her father Leo Dale Pittman was enlisted in the army when Aileen …show more content…

She was constantly running away, experimenting with drugs, and her temper tantrums would scare away her friends. With her constant sexual activity, Aileen gets pregnant at the age of 14. Once her grandparents found out, they sent her away to deliver the baby and give it up for adoption. Soon after she returns home her grandmother passes away, and her grandfather who has had enough of Aileen and Keith’s troubled activities kicks them both out of the house. Even though they both left at the same time, Keith decided to stay with some friends, while Aileen started her journey of street …show more content…

Once Tyria was found and she could not be tied to the killings, police asked her to support them in getting a confession out of Aileen. With Tyria’s assistance, the police was able to receive a confession and charged Aileen with six counts of murder. A year after her arrest, Aileen went to trial for the murder of the first victim, Richard Mallony. Aileen who was the only witness to testify for her own case, was devastated to see Tyria take the stand against her. The only constant in her life and the only person she would later state she killed for, did not even have eye contact with her at court. On January 27th, the jury found Aileen guilty of fist degree murder, and on January 31st, she was sentenced to

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Aileen was working as a prostitute along Florida highways at the time, and claimed that she was picked up by Mallory and killed him in self defense after he raped and beat her. Her story changed several times before she gave her testimony, and her statement was not consistent with evidence found at the scene. While she testified that Mallory was coming towards her when she initially shot him, investigation by a firearms specialist revealed that the gun had been fired from behind. After her conviction of Mallory’s murder, Wuornos’s attorney brought to attention that Richard Mallory was a convicted sex offender who spent several years in a mental institution after pleading insanity to a

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At the young age of eleven, Aileen and her brother Keith had learned that Lauri and Britta Wuornos were not their biological parents but, they were in fact their maternal grandparents. Aileen believed there had been five Wuornos children. Diane, the daughter of Lauri and Britta, who was the mother of Aileen and

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When she was 15 years old she had a baby it is unknown who the fathers was but it was rumored that it was her brother Keith’s. Her grandfather immediately put the baby up for adoption and soon after Aileen dropped out of school. Around the time Aileen dropped out of school her grandmother Britta died of liver failure which her grandfather Lauri blamed her for, and her brother died of throat cancer this time she blamed herself for his

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Aileen’s grandmother, Britta was known to be an abusive alcoholic and her grandfather Lauri was abusive, physically and sexually toward Aileen and Keith. Her grandfather would beat her and would make her strip off her garments before sexually assaulting her (Biography.com, 2015). Due to her explosive eruptions for no apparent reason and lack of social skills, Aileen had very few friends. She was very close with her brother, and they would run off together when their grandfather was on a rampage. She was also engaging in consensual sexual activity with her brother, which was witnessed by Keith’s neighborhood friend (Who2,

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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.

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