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  Aileen Wuornos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, Aileen Wuornos was neither the first nor the worst, although she did display a curiously masculine tendency to prey on strangers of the opposite sex.
Aileen later told police that she had sex with Keith at an early age, but acquaintances doubt the story and Keith is unable to speak for himself, having died of throat cancer in 1976.
By 1989, Aileens demeanor was increasingly erratic and belligerent.
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 Aileen Wuornos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aileen's troublesome behavior escalated when she was 12 years old and discovered that her parents had abandoned her, and that Britta and Laurie were actually her grandparents.
Aileen Wuornos' statements about how her murders were done in self-defense and that she was not the one to blame for them has been taken by most people to be the rantings of a madwoman who would say anything to make her look better, or to draw attention to herself.
Aileen denied several times that she was a lesbian, although she did admit that she loved Tyria Moore, and that the two had formed an emotional bond.
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 Aileen Carol Wuornos #805
Wuornos confessed to the murder of all six men, claiming that she was picked up by the men when she was working as a highway prostitute, and shot them in self defense after they attempted to sexually assault her.
Wuornos' final ride, in a hearse from the death chamber, was a far different road than the one that led to her execution.
Wuornos biological uncle (also her adoptive brother), Barry Wuornos, said that his family had a "normal lifestyle" and was a "straight and narrow family." Barry acknowledged that his father (Aileen's biological grandfather) "laid down rules" but was someone you could look up to.
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 Aileen Wournos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Suspected of at least seven murders, sentenced to die in four of the six cases she confessed to police, Wournos still maintains that some or all of her admitted killings were performed in self-defense, resisting violent assaults by men whom she solicited while working as a prostitute.
In spite of her denials, Aileen was carrying spare ammunition on her person, and a.22 pistol was found beneath her passenger seat she occupied.
Aileen Wournos was executed on October 9, 2002 by lethal injection.
www.carpenoctem.tv /killers/wournos.html   (2719 words)

  
 Aileen Wuornos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aileen Carol Wuornos (born Aileen Carol Pittman) (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American prostitute and serial killer who was sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1992.
Aileen Carol Wuornos was born in Rochester, Michigan, to Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman.
Wuornos claimed that her grandfather physically and sexually abused her as a child and her grandmother was an abusive alcoholic.
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 Monster Movie True Story Aileen Wuornos - Women Serial Killers - Charlize Theron
This may be why Aileen was wrongly touted as 'the first female serial killer.' She killed her victims by way of a gun instead of the stereotypical devices that women serial killers have often used in the past.
Aileen claimed to have been sexually abused by her grandfather and raped when she was 13.
Aileen Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002 at Florida State Prison.
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 AILEEN WUORNOS CHOOSES EXECUTION
Lethal Intent reveals Aileen's double abandonment by her mother before she was two, the crimes of her father, and the events that set her on a path of destruction.
Wuornos’ actual culpability was hardly in question since she confessed soon after being arrested in January ‘91 on an old gun charge.
Ty was not in Florida for at least one of the murders and although she had dead men’s belongings in her possession when police found her in Pennsylvania, they believed her claim not to have been involved with any of the murders and she was not charged with any crime.
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 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is actually the second documentary British filmmaker Nick Broomfield has made about Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for the murders of seven of her johns during the late 1980's.
But the most compelling scenes are those in which he interviews Aileen herself, prodding her to open up and reveal whether she committed the murders out of self-defense as she claims or whether she killed her victims to steal their money as the prosecution successfully argued.
According to Aileen, her first victim was attacking and raping her, causing her to reach into her purse, grab her pistol and shoot him dead.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0364930   (962 words)

  
 Aileen Carol Wuornos Biography | World of Criminal Justice
Aileen Wuornos was born on February 28, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan, to parents Leo Pittman and Diane Wuornos Pratt.
Aileen was born a few months after the divorce.
Aileen Wuornos was arrested on January 6, 1991 on an old traffic warrant.
www.bookrags.com /biography/aileen-carol-wuornos-cri   (597 words)

  
 Aileen Wuornos Bio at the Serial Killer Calendar
Associated Press reported that serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed by lethal injection at 9:47 a.m.,Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, more than a decade after she murdered six men along central Florida highways while working as a prostitute.
Wuornos, 46, was the tenth woman in the U.S. and the second woman in Florida to be executed since the death penalty resumed in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Wuornos gave her last media interview just days before her execution, to British producer Nick Broomfield, who did a documentary on her in 1993, but she stormed out after about 35 minutes, Broomfield said.
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 Aileen Wuornos Summary
Wuornos paid the $105 fine that was imposed on her on August 4.
Documentaries: Nick Broomfield directed two documentaries about her: Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992), and Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003).
Movies: The 2003 movie Monster, starring Charlize Theron, tells Wuornos' story from the moment she met Selby Wall, the first person in her life who showed some kindness towards her (the Wall character was based on Wuornos' lover and four-year companion, Tyria Moore) until her first conviction for murder.
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 Aileen Wuornos' Execution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wuornos was a prostitute living in Florida who murdered 7 of her clients.
As Cathy Young notes in an article on on Wuornos in Reason, Wuornos later changed her story, saying she killed the seven men because she hated them and wanted to rob them.
A typical defense of Wuornos is offered by Phyllis Chesler who, in a 1993 article about Wuornos complained that women were held to a different standard when it comes to violent crime than men,
www.equityfeminism.com /articles/2002/000103.html   (510 words)

  
 Aileen Wuornos
Wuornos killed strangers with a gun, an unusual but not unprecedented fact that the media seized upon and ran with rampantly.
Her claim of having had sex with 250,000 men (which was widely reported as truth) is preposterous; such a feat would require the bedding of 35 different men a day every day for 20 years.
Wuornos had neither the stamina nor the planning skills necessary for such a record-breaking performance.
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 Aileen Wuornos
As well as killing the victims, Wuornos also stole their cars, dumping them at a later date.
She encouraged Wuornos to confess, and later gave evidence against her at the trial.
It is said that by the time Wuornos was executed, she was no longer of sound mind, and should not have therefore been executed.
web.ukonline.co.uk /ruth.buddell/wuornos.htm   (291 words)

  
 Aileen Wuornos - Moviefone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aileen Wuornos: Killer Who Preyed on Truck Drivers - The Crime...
Aileen Wuornos was a female serial killer who murdered seven men in Florida for which she was executed.
Aileen Wuornos's older brother, Keith, was born in 1955.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/aileen-wuornos/363166/main   (123 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Aileen Wuornos": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For example, serial killer Aileen Wuornos, as will be discussed further in the following chapter, was narrated using the transdiscursive cultural fantasy of evil whore and...
However, the thoughts going through David's mind on the day he picked up Aileen Wuornos were probably not so charitable.
Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), Silence of the Lambs (1991), the documentary Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992), and two Morgan Freeman films, Seven (1995) and Kiss the Girls (1997).
www.amazon.com /phrase/Aileen-Wuornos   (560 words)

  
 When a Prostitute Kills: The Execution Of Aileen Carol Wuornos
QUOTE: Because she was a prostitute, Wuornos's rape accusations would strike many people as implausible.
ABSTRACT: Aileen Wournos claimed to have been raped by many of the men that she killed, but later admitted that she didn't kill in self-defense.
Had she not admitted to deliberately killing six men, her profession (prostitute), as well as the general difficulty of proving rape, might well have kept her from receiving a fair ruling in any case.
www.fairness.com /resources/one?resource_id=4862   (161 words)

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