Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute who was accompanied by violence throughout her life and murdered out of hatred of men Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute who was accompanied by violence throughout her life and murdered out of hatred of men
We have prepared an article series for you, which will be about serial killers that we found interesting in any way. We will focus on infamous as well as lesser-known murderers and try to bring you as close as possible to their, mostly very moving, life story. We are not so much interested in statistics and data, but above all in the background of their psychological disturbance and gradual personality changes that led to their ruthless actions and playing God. In today's article, we will imagine a woman who murdered out of hatred that had accumulated in her since childhood.
Aileen Wuornos was born Aileen Pittman on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Her teenage parents divorced before she was born. Her father, Leo Pittman, was sent to psychiatric hospitals in Kansas and Michigan, as he was recognized as an insane abuser. Mother Diane described Aileen and her older brother Keith as rowdy and unhappy children, so she decided to abandon them in the early 1960s in favor of her parents. On March 18 (March) of that year, maternal grandparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos legally adopted their daughter's children as their own. Aileen's childhood had become more acceptable by then. However, at the age of six, she suffered facial burns when she came into contact with acid. Aileen later admitted to the police that she had sex with her brother Keith at an early age, but this is disputed by many as her brother died of cancer in 1976 and was unable to comment on the claim.
Aileen hated men all her life because of her father, who soon abandoned them and eventually committed suicide in prison. Anyway, Aileen must have had sex with someone, because she got pregnant at the age of fourteen and gave birth to a son on March 23, 1971 in Detroit. Britta's grandmother died on July 7th (July), after which her husband began to declare that he did not want Aileen and her brother to stay in his house. Aileen was soon kicked out of school and began working full-time on the streets as a prostitute. In May 1974, she was jailed in Jefferson County, Colorado, under the alias Sandra Kretsch, for disorderly conduct, driving under the influence of alcohol, and firing a .22 pistol from a moving vehicle. She fled the city before the verdict. After returning to Michigan on July 13, 1976, she was again arrested in Antrim County for assault and disorderly conduct when she verbally and physically assaulted a local bartender. On August 4, her brother bought her out of custody for $105.
Keith's death took Aileen $10,000 out of his life insurance policy, which she squandered within two months on luxury goods and a new car, which she crashed not long after buying. At the end of September (September), again without money, she hitchhiked to Florida, where she faced even more trouble with the law. On May 20 (May) 1981, she was arrested in Edgewater for armed burglary of a convenience store. She was convicted and released from prison only after 13 months. However, the next arrest came not long after, on May 1 (May) 1984, when she tried to pass fake checks at the bank. In late 1985, she was named the prime suspect in Pasco County for theft of guns and ammunition, and in 1986 she was again charged, this time in Miami, with theft and resisting arrest. Police found a revolver and ammunition on her, both of which were also stored in a stolen car.
Aileen used various false names during her arrest, such as Lori Grody (after her deceased aunt) or Susan Blahovec. Using the second alias, she was convicted of possession of a weapon and speeding in late 1986. After her release, Aileen met Tirya Moore in one of the local gay bars. They soon became lovers, and when their passion faded after a year, they remained close friends and companions for several more years. On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police arrested Tina Moore and "Susan Blahovec" for assaulting a man they had beaten with a beer bottle. A month later, Wuornos coined another moniker, Cammie Marsh Green, due to an incident in which she got into a fight with a bus driver in Daytona Beach. However, the pair's rowing didn't stop when they demolished their rental apartment a few months later. They tore up the carpets, broke the furniture and painted the walls brown.
In November 1988, she repeatedly called and threatened employees at the Zephyr Hills supermarket because they did not recognize her forged lottery ticket. In 1989, Aileen's behavior became even more erratic and aggressive. No one took her insults and provocations seriously until she started carrying a loaded gun in her purse. She sought out men in bars and truck stops, always trying to improve with petty theft whenever she got the chance. She talked to Moore more and more often about her life problems and the hatred that lay dormant inside her. However, her hatred had gone too far. Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old electrician from Palm Harbor, was last seen alive on November 30, 1989 by his co-workers. His car was found abandoned in Ormond Beach, Volusia County, with his wallet and papers scattered around, along with several condoms and a half-drinking bottle of vodka.
Peter Siems (65) was a sailor who later became a missionary and was last seen on June 7 (June) 1990 when he went to visit relatives in Arkansas. Siems never arrived home and was reported missing on June 22 (June). No trace was found until the Fourth of July (July), when his car was broken into in Orange Springs, Florida. Witnesses described the occupants of the vehicle as two women, a blonde and a brunette. The blonde was bleeding and left a palm print on the trunk. Eugene Burress, 50, left the Ocala Sausage Factory on July 30 (July) 1990 to make his usual delivery. He was reported missing the very next day. His abandoned van was also found on the same day. On August 4, his body was found by a family that went on a picnic in the forest. Burress was shot twice with a .22 caliber pistol in the back and chest.
Dick Humphreys (56) was a retired police chief in Alabama. His wife reported him missing when he did not return from work on September 11, 1990. His body was found the very next day. He had been shot seven times with a .22 caliber pistol and his pockets were inside out. The seventh victim was Walter Antonio, 60, a truck driver who also served as a reserve police officer for Brevard County. He was found in the woods northwest of Cross City on November 19, 1990, shot three times in the head and once in the back. His body was found completely naked except for his socks. The rest of his clothing was later found in neighboring Taylor County. The police discovered that the killer had stolen the victim's gold ring, his baton, handcuffs and a badge. By that time, the police were already under such pressure that they decided to at least publish the likenesses of a pair of women drawn by witnesses to the wreck of Siems's car.
Interview with Aileen one day before the execution
Over the next three weeks, police received four calls identifying the unnamed women as Tyria Moore and Lee Blahovec. The detectives were able to track them down thanks to their frequent stays in motels, eventually learning that Blahovec likes to use fake names like Lori Grody and Cammie Marsh Green. The fingerprint test then only confirmed that Blahovec/Grody/Green were not three women, but Aileen Wuornos and that, according to the palm print on the trunk, she was indeed at the scene of the crash. However, the police still could not catch them. Until December 6th (December), when Aileen stopped Richard Mallory's camera in Daytona. She also sold his toolbox in Ormond Beach. The next day, she stopped Walter Antonio's ring in Volusia County. With so many clues, it was relatively easy to track down the murderer.
9. On January 1, 1991, Aileen Wuornos was arrested at a Harbor Oaks biker bar for crimes committed under the alias Lori Grody while police were finalizing murder charges. A day later, Tyria Moore was tracked down at her sister's home in Pennsylvania, where she agreed to cooperate. The detectives then allowed the women to make several calls, but wiretapped them and discovered new facts, including Aileen's rented storage room where she hid things belonging to the murdered men. On January 16, 1991, Wuornos confessed to detectives to the six-count murder, but claimed it was self-defense. She also denied murdering Peter Siems, whose body was never found. Less than a fortnight after her arrest, the rights to her story were sold to filmmakers, which eventually became known as Monster. Despite her claims, she was sentenced to death, and on October 9, 2002, she was transported to death row at the Bradford County Florida State Penitentiary. She refused the last meal and drank a cup of coffee instead. She died after being administered a lethal injection at 9:47 a.m.
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