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  1. January 9, 1991. Aileen Carol Wuornos ( / ˈwɔːrnoʊs /; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. [3] In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.

  2. Jul 4, 2019 · (1994) Over a 12 month period in the US state of Florida, Aileen Wournos killed seven men. She said it was self-defence yet at her trial asked to be executed...

  3. Oct 15, 2023 · Between 1989 and 1990, serial killer Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men throughout Florida before being sent to death row and finally executed in 2002. After a childhood of abuse and abandonment, Aileen Wuornos went on a killing rampage that left at least seven men dead in just one year.

  4. Dec 19, 2023 · Aileen Wuornos was born as Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her parents, Diane Wuornos and Leo Pittman, divorced before her birth.

  5. Feb 1, 2023 · In 1991, a 35-year-old illegal sex worker from Michigan shattered a long-held myth about serial murder when she confessed to killing seven men in Florida over the course of a year.

  6. Jun 17, 2024 · Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer who murdered at least seven people in 198990. Her case drew national attention to issues such as the relationship between gender and violence and the legal treatment of acts of self-defense by women.

  7. From late 1989 through late 1990, the bodies of 7 middle-aged white men were discovered in central Florida. The assailant had robbed all of the victims before shooting them to death and stealing their cars. Richard Mallory.

  8. Nov 28, 2023 · Known as Americas first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos carried out a string of notorious and brutal murders along the dark highways of Florida in late 1989 and 1990. A victim of child abuse herself, in adult life Wuornos was a petty criminal who worked as a sex worker.

  9. www.crimemuseum.org › crime-library › serial-killersAileen Wuornos - Crime Museum

    Aileen Wuornos. Aileen Carol Wuornos (1956-2002) was a serial killer who preyed on truck drivers in Florida. Wuornos’ father, Leo Pittman, was a sociopathic child murderer spent time in mental hospitals throughout her childhood and was ultimately killed in prison.

  10. Oct 10, 2002 · Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute who killed six men along Florida highways, was executed by injection today after dropping her appeals and firing her lawyers. Ms. Wuornos,...