Date apprehended January 9, 1991 Aileen Carol Wuornos Pralle (; born Aileen Carol Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an who murdered seven men in between 1989 and 1990 by shooting them at. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either or attempted to rape her while she was working as a, and that all of the homicides were committed in. She was convicted and for six of the murders and was executed by on October 9, 2002.
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The 2003 film starred as Wuornos. It chronicles Wuornos' story from childhood until her first murder conviction. The film earned Theron an. Contents.
Early life Childhood Aileen Wuornos was born 'Aileen Carol Pittman' in, on February 29, 1956. Her mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 14 years old when she married Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman (1937–1969), on June 3, 1954. Less than two years later, and two months before Aileen was born, Diane filed for.
Aileen's older brother Keith was born on March 14, 1955. Wuornos never met her father; he was incarcerated at the time of her birth. Leo Dale Pittman was diagnosed with, later convicted of against children, and eventually committed suicide by hanging in prison on January 30, 1969. In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, who legally adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960. By the age of 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. She had also engaged in sexual activities with her brother.
Wuornos said that her alcoholic grandfather had and beaten her when she was a child. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes.
In 1970, at age 14, she became pregnant, having been by an accomplice of her grandfather. Wuornos gave birth to a boy at a on March 23, 1971, and the child was placed for adoption. A few months after her son was born, she dropped out of school at about the same time that her grandmother died of liver failure. When Wuornos was 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and she began supporting herself as a and living in the woods near her old home.
Early criminal activity On May 27, 1974, at age 18, Wuornos was arrested in, for (DUI), and firing a.22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle. She was later charged with. In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to, where she met 69-year-old yacht club President Lewis Gratz Fell. They married that same year, and the announcement of their nuptials was printed in the local newspaper's society pages. However, Wuornos continually involved herself in confrontations at their local bar and eventually went to jail for. She also hit Fell with his own cane, leading him to gain a against her.
She returned to Michigan where, on July 14, 1976, she was arrested in and charged with assault and for throwing a at a bartender's head. On July 17, her brother Keith died of and Wuornos received $10,000 from his. Wuornos and Fell annulled their marriage on July 21 after only nine weeks. In August 1976, Wuornos was given a $105 fine for drunk driving. She used the money inherited from her brother to pay the fine and spent the rest within two months buying luxuries including a new car, which she wrecked shortly afterwards. On May 20, 1981, Wuornos was arrested in, Florida, for the of a convenience store, where she stole $35 and two packs of cigarettes.
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She was sentenced to prison on May 4, 1982, and released on June 30, 1983. On May 1, 1984, Wuornos was arrested for attempting to pass forged checks at a bank in. On November 30, 1985, she was named as a suspect in the theft of a and ammunition in.
On January 4, 1986, Wuornos was arrested in and charged with, and for providing identification bearing her aunt's name. Miami police officers found a revolver and a box of ammunition in the stolen car. On June 2, 1986, deputy sheriffs detained Wuornos for questioning after a male companion accused her of pulling a gun in his car and demanding $200. Wuornos was found to be carrying spare ammunition, and police discovered a.22 pistol under the passenger seat she had occupied. Around this time, Wuornos met Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, at a.
They moved in together, and Wuornos supported them with her earnings as a prostitute. On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police detained Wuornos and Moore at a bar for questioning regarding an incident in which they were accused of assault and battery with a beer bottle. On March 12, 1988, Wuornos accused a Daytona Beach bus driver of assault. She claimed that he pushed her off the bus following a confrontation. Moore was listed as a witness to the incident. Up until her execution, Wuornos claimed to still be in love with Moore.
Murders. Richard Mallory, age 51, November 30, 1989—Electronics store owner in.
Wuornos' first victim was a convicted rapist whom she claimed to have killed in. Two days later, a Volusia County deputy sheriff found Mallory's abandoned vehicle. On December 13, his body was found several miles away in a wooded area; he had been shot several times, two bullets to the left lung were found to have been the cause of death. It was on this murder that Wuornos was initially condemned. David Spears, age 43—Construction worker in. On June 1, 1990, his naked body was found along in.
He had been shot six times. Charles Carskaddon, age 40, May 31, 1990—Part-time worker. On June 6, 1990, his body was found in. He had been shot nine times with a small-caliber weapon. Peter Siems, age 65—retired merchant seaman who devoted much of his time to a Christian outreach ministry. In June 1990, Siems left, Florida, for.
On July 4, 1990, his car was found in, Florida. Moore and Wuornos were seen abandoning the car, and Wuornos' palm print was found on the interior door handle. His body was never found. Troy Burress, age 50—Sausage salesman from. On July 31, 1990, he was reported missing. On August 4, 1990, his body was found in a wooded area along State Road 19 in.
He had been shot twice. Charles 'Dick' Humphreys, age 56, September 11, 1990—Retired, former State Investigator, and former. On September 12, 1990, his body was found in Marion County. He was fully clothed and had been shot six times in the head and torso. His car was found in.
Walter Jeno Antonio, age 62—Trucker, security guard, and police reservist. On November 19, 1990, Antonio's nearly naked body was found near a remote logging road in. He had been shot four times. Five days later, his car was found in. Justice system Apprehension and sentencing On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Moore abandoned Siems' car after they were involved in an accident. Witnesses who had seen the women driving the victims' cars provided police with their names and descriptions, resulting in a media campaign to locate them.
Police also found some of the victims' belongings in and retrieved fingerprints matching those found in the victims' cars. Wuornos had a criminal record in Florida, and her fingerprints were on file. The Last Resort bar in Volusia County, where Wuornos was arrested On January 9, 1991, Wuornos was arrested on an outstanding warrant at The Last Resort, a biker bar in Volusia County. Police located Moore the next day in,. She agreed to elicit a confession from Wuornos in exchange for.
Moore returned with the police to Florida, where she was put up in a motel. Under police guidance, she made numerous telephone calls to Wuornos, pleading for help in clearing her name. Three days later, on January 16, 1991, Wuornos confessed to the murders. She claimed the men had tried to rape her and she killed them in self-defense.
A year later, on January 14, 1992, Wuornos went to trial for the murder of Mallory; although previous convictions are normally inadmissible in criminal trials, under Florida's the prosecution was allowed to introduce evidence related to her other crimes to show a pattern of illegal activity. On January 27, 1992, Wuornos was convicted of Mallory's murder with help from Moore's testimony. At her sentencing, for the defense testified that Wuornos was mentally unstable and had been diagnosed with. Four days later, she was.
On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded to the murders of Humphreys, Burress, and Spears, saying she wanted to 'get right with God'. In her statement to the court, she said, in part: 'I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as I've told you; but these others did not.
They only began to start to.' On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death sentences.
In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Carskaddon; in November 1992, she received her fifth death sentence. The defense made efforts during the trial to introduce evidence that Mallory had been tried for intent to commit rape in and that he had been committed to a maximum security correctional facility that provided remediation to.
Records obtained from that institution reflected that, from 1958 to 1962, Mallory was committed for treatment and observation resulting from a criminal charge of assault with intent to rape and received an over-all eight years of treatment from the facility. In 1961, 'it was observed of Mr. Mallory that he possessed strong trends'. The judge refused to allow this to be admitted in court as evidence and denied Wuornos' request for a retrial.
In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Antonio and was sentenced to death again. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Siems, as his body was never found. In all, she received six death sentences. Wuornos told several inconsistent stories about the killings. She claimed initially that all seven men had raped her while she was working as a prostitute but later recanted the claim of self-defense, citing and a desire to leave no witnesses as the reason for murder. During an interview with filmmaker, when she thought the cameras were off, she told him that it was, in fact, self-defense, but she could not stand being on —where she had been for ten years at that point—and wanted to die. Assessed using the, Wuornos scored 32/40.
The checklist evaluates individuals on a 20-item list of antisocial and interpersonal behaviors, with each item being scored at zero, 1 or 2 and thus a maximum score of 40. Depending on location and research perspective, scores above 25 or 30 are consistent with a diagnosis of. Execution Wuornos was incarcerated at the (BCI) death row for women, then transferred to the for execution. Her appeal to the was denied in 1996. In a 2001 petition to the, she stated her intention to dismiss her legal counsel and terminate all pending appeals.
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'I killed those men,' she wrote, 'robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too. There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system.I am so sick of hearing this 'she's crazy' stuff. I've been evaluated so many times.
I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.' While her attorneys argued that she was not mentally competent to make such a request, Wuornos insisted that she knew what she was doing, and a court-appointed panel of psychiatrists agreed.
In 2002, Wuornos began accusing prison matrons of tainting her food with dirt,. She said she had overheard conversations among prison personnel 'trying to get me so pushed over the brink by them I'd wind up committing suicide before the execution' and 'wishing to rape me before execution'.
She also complained of strip searches, tight handcuffing, door kicking, frequent window checks, low water pressure, mildew on her mattress, and 'cat calling. In distaste and a pure hatred towards me'. Wuornos threatened to boycott showers and food trays when certain officers were on duty. 'In the meantime, my stomach's growling away and I'm taking showers through the sink of my cell.' Her attorney stated that 'Ms. Wuornos really just wants to have proper treatment, humane treatment until the day she's executed.' He added, 'She believes what she's written.'
In the weeks before her execution, Wuornos gave a series of interviews to Broomfield. She depicts, 'being taken away to meet God and Jesus and the angels and whatever is beyond the beyond'. In her final interview, she once again charged that her mind was 'tortured' at BCI, and her head crushed by 'sonic pressure'. Food poisonings and other abuses worsened, she said, each time she complained, with the goal of making her appear insane, or to drive her insane. She also turned on her interviewer: 'You sabotaged my ass! Society, and the cops, and the system!
A raped woman got executed, and was used for books and movies and shit!' Her final on-camera words were 'Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass.' Dawn Botkins, a childhood friend of Wuornos, later told Broomfield that her verbal abuse was directed at society and the media in general, not at him specifically.
Wuornos's execution took place on October 9, 2002. She died at 9:47 a.m. She declined her last meal which could have been anything under $20 and opted for a cup of coffee instead. Her last words were, 'Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like, with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back.'
She was the tenth woman in the and the second in Florida to be executed since the restoring capital punishment. After death Wuornos's body was and her ashes were spread beneath a tree in her native Michigan by Botkins. Wuornos requested that 's song ' be played at her.
Merchant commented on this when asked why she permitted 'Carnival' to be played during the credits of the documentary: When director Nick Broomfield sent a working edit of the film, I was so disturbed by the subject matter that I couldn't even watch it. Aileen Wuornos led a tortured, torturing life that is beyond my worst nightmares. It wasn't until I was told that Aileen spent many hours listening to my album Tigerlily while on death row and requested 'Carnival' be played at her funeral that I gave permission for the use of the song. It's very odd to think of the places my music can go once it leaves my hands. If it gave her some solace, I have to be grateful. Broomfield later speculated on Wuornos' motive and state of mind: I think this anger developed inside her. And she was working as a prostitute.
I think she had a lot of awful encounters on the roads. And I think this anger just spilled out from inside her. And finally exploded. Into incredible violence. That was her way of surviving.
I think Aileen really believed that she had killed in self-defense. I think someone who's deeply psychotic can't really tell the difference between something that is life threatening and something that is a minor disagreement, that you could say something that she didn't agree with. She would get into a screaming black temper about it. And I think that's what had caused these things to happen. And at the same time, when she wasn't in those extreme moods, there was an incredible humanity to her. In popular culture Books mentioned Wuornos only briefly in his autobiographical history of his 20 years with the FBI.
Writing in 1992, he said he often does not discuss female serial killers because they tend to kill in sprees instead of in a sequential fashion. He noted Wuornos as the sole exception.
Ressler, who allegedly coined the phrase 'serial killer' to describe murderers seeking personal gratification, does not apply it to women killing in or to any murderer acting solely for financial gain, such as women who have killed a series of boarders or spouses. In 2002, journalist wrote a book about Wuornos called. In 2012, Lisa Kester and Daphne Gottlieb edited and published a collection of letters written over a 10-year span from Wuornos to Botkins. The book is titled: Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words.
Documentaries Filmmaker directed two documentaries about Wuornos:. (1993). (2003) Wuornos was the subject of episodes of the documentary TV series,. She was also featured in an episode of the TV series, (season 3, episode 1: 'Fatal Compulsion'). An episode of Murder Made Me Famous on the Reelz Television Network, airing December 1, 2018, chronicled the case. Film The TV movie Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992) starred as Aileen.
The theatrical film, (2003), starred as Wuornos. It chronicles Wuornos' story from childhood until her first murder conviction. The film earned Theron an for playing Wuornos. Television Wuornos has been mentioned twice on the police procedure crime drama.
Her mugshot was shown in one episode, and in the Criminal Minds novel Killer Profile, she is one of the serial killers copied by the novels's main antagonist, Daniel Dryden. Other media An operatic adaptation of Wuornos' life premiered at 's on June 22, 2001. Entitled Wuornos, the opera was written by /, conducted by Mary Chun, and produced by the.
Several musicians have written songs about Wuornos, including ('Nicotine Love') and the New York-based metalcore band ('Sixth of June'). The poet Doron Braunshtein dedicated a poem to her, called 'Aileen Wuornos', that appears in his 2011 CD. The singer recorded a live cover of the song 'Iron Lady', which she would often perform as a tribute to Wuornos, for her performance album.
A song by 'Dolly's circus' named 'Aileen's song' was written and published in 2012. The poem 'Sugar Zero' by is dedicated to Wuornos and appears in the 2005 publication, Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts. Portrayed a fictionalised version of Wuornos as part of a Halloween storyline in in the of the show's fifth season, and later in the season finale. A parody cover version of 's ' called 'Aileen', inspired by Wuornos, is featured on 's third solo album. The music video, featuring portraying Wuornos, was released on November 1, 2018. The song 'Poor Aileen', which is the final track from the 2015 album ' by is written about the female serial killer.
Psychopathology model Wuornos's crimes are consistent with the model of women who kill. She was considered to have a psychopathic personality. Using the Psychopathy Checklist, Wuornos was found to have a psychopathic personality with a PCL-R score of 32 with the cutoff score for psychopathy being 30 in the United States. Wuornos also allegedly met the criteria for both borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Much of Wuornos's childhood and early career in prostitution are said to have damaged her irrevocably and it could be seen that experiences throughout most of her young life could play a part in Wuornos's psychological state, including her biological mother's departure as well as her grandmother ignoring the abuse she endured from her grandfather, thus leading to the lack of development of a 'mother-daughter' bond for Wuornos as a young girl. The damage was then made worse as both Wuornos and her brother believed that their grandparents were their biological parents, but at age 11 learned this was not the case, which further damaged the relationship between Wuornos and her adoptive parents. Wuornos was also known to have early behavioral problems such as having an explosive temper which limited her ability to make friends as well as making it increasingly difficult to maintain relationships.
All this, including her traumatic upbringing as well as physical and sexual abuse she was subjected to have been partially linked to the development of borderline personality disorder. Such severe trauma can also interrupt the development of the mind and result in 'primitive, dissociative, and splitting defenses to ward off the intensity of emotional and sexual stimulation that cannot be integrated as a child.' See also.
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