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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. 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.

  3. Sep 2, 2020 · Aileen Wuornos killed her first victim, 51-year old Richard Charles Mallory, as an act of self-defense. He was a convicted rapist, and she stated that he had sodomized and beaten her under the purview of sexual acts.

  4. 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.

  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. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Aileen “Lee” Carol Wuornos was born February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her father was convicted of child molestation after her birth and a few years later killed himself in prison.

  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. Wuornos, 44, one of the nation's first known female serial killers, was convicted of fatally shooting six middle-aged men along the highways of northern and central Florida in 1989 and 1990. Her story has been portrayed in two movies, three books and an opera.