Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29 1956 – October 9 2002) was an American serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992. Wuornos admitted to killing seven men, in separate incidents, all of whom she claimed had raped her while she was working as a prostitute. She was executed in 2002.

Early life

Born in Rochester, Michigan, Wuornos had what was by most accounts a traumatic childhood. Her father, a psychopathic child molester left her mother before Aileen was born, and later committed suicide in prison when she was 13 (1969). Her mother abandoned her and her brother, Keith, in 1960, leaving them in the care of their grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos.

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Rochester, Michigan - Psychopath - Child molester - Suicide - 1969 - 1960

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Wuornos later said that Lauri physically and sexually abused her as a child, that Britta was an abusive alcoholic, and that they both claimed to be her actual parents until she was twelve, when she found out the truth. She also claimed to have had sex with multiple partners, including her brother, at a young age.

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Wuornos became pregnant at age fourteen (she gave the baby up for adoption), which supported her claim of early sexual activities. After Britta died later that year (officially of liver failure, although Wuornos' mother later accused Lauri of killing her), Wuornos ran away from home and turned to prostitution, traveling around the country and supporting herself with sex up until her arrest for murder years later. She was arrested multiple times throughout the 1970s and 1980s for crimes including drunk driving and shoplifting, as well as prostitution.

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Adoption - Liver - Murder - 1970 - 1980 - Drunk driving

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