Aileen Carol Wuornos Pralle (born Aileen Carol Pittman <29 February 1956 - October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer who killed seven people in Florida between 1989 and 1990 by shooting they are at close range. Wuornos claims that his victim has been raped or attempted to rape him while working as a sex worker, and that all the killings were committed in self-defense. He was convicted and sentenced to death for six murders and executed with lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
Movie Monster (2003) starred in Charlize Theron as Wuornos. It tells the story of Wuornos from childhood to his first murder conviction. The film earned Theron an Academy Award for Best Actress to play Wuornos.
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Initial life
Little
Aileen Wuornos was born in Troy, Michigan, on February 29, 1956. Her Finnish-American mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 14 years old when married to Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman (1937 -1969), on 3 June 1954. Less than two years later, and two months before Aileen was born, Diane filed for divorce. Aileen's sister, Keith, was born on March 14, 1955.
Wuornos never met his father; he was imprisoned at the time of his birth. Leo Dale Pittman was diagnosed with schizophrenia, later found guilty of sexual offenses against children, and eventually hanged himself in jail on January 30, 1969. In January 1960, when Wuornos was nearly four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with motherhood they. grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, who legitimately adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960.
At the age of 11, Wuornos began to engage in sexual activity at school in exchange for cigarettes, medicines, and food. She is also involved in sexual activity with her brother. Wuornos said that his alcoholic grandfather had sexually abused him and beat him when he was a child. Before beating her, she will force her to undress. In 1970, at the age of 14, she was pregnant, raped by a grandfather's accomplice. Wuornos gave birth to a son in a house to an unmarried mother on March 23, 1971, and the boy was placed for adoption. A few months after his son was born, he dropped out of school at the same time when his grandmother died of liver failure. When Wuornos was 15 years old, his grandfather drove him out of the house, and he began supporting himself as a prostitute and living in the woods near his old home.
Initial criminal activity
On May 27, 1974, at the age of 18, Wuornos was arrested in Jefferson County, Colorado, for driving under the influence (DUI), disorderly behavior, and fired a.22 caliber gun from a moving vehicle. He was later accused of failing to show up.
In 1976, Wuornos boarded Florida, where he met 69-year-old cruise ship president Lewis Gratz Fell. They were married the same year, and their wedding announcements were printed on the pages of local newspapers. However, Wuornos was constantly involved in a confrontation in their local bar and eventually went to jail for assault. He also hit Fell with his own wand, leading him to obtain an arrest warrant against him. He returned to Michigan where, on July 14, 1976, he was arrested in Antrim County and accused of assault and disturbing peace for throwing a ball of cues to the head of the bartender. On July 17, his brother Keith died of esophageal cancer and Wuornos received $ 10,000 from his life insurance. Wuornos and Fell canceled their marriage on July 21 after just nine weeks. In August 1976, Wuornos was fined $ 105 for drunk driving. She uses Keith's inheritance money to pay the fine and spend the rest within two months by using it to buy luxury items including a new car, which she damaged shortly after.
On May 20, 1981, Wuornos was arrested in Edgewater, Florida, for armed robbery at a convenience store, where he stole $ 35 and two packs of cigarettes. He was sentenced on 4 May 1982, and released on 30 June 1983. On May 1, 1984, Wuornos was arrested for attempting to pass a false examination at a bank in Key West. On November 30, 1985, he was named a suspect in the theft of revolvers and ammunition in Pasco County. On January 4, 1986, Wuornos was arrested in Miami and accused of stealing a car, refusing arrest, and blocking justice for providing identification with his aunt's name. Miami police officers found a.38 caliber revolver and a box of ammunition in a stolen car. On June 2, 1986, the deputy sheriff of Volusia County arrested Wuornos for questioning after a male friend accused him of pulling a gun in his car and demanding $ 200. Wuornos was found carrying backup ammunition, and police found a.22 gun under his passenger seat.
Around this time, Wuornos met Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, at the Daytona Beach gay bar. They moved together, and Wuornos supported them with his income as a sex worker. On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police arrested Wuornos and Moore at a bar for questioning about an incident in which they were charged with attacks and batteries with beer bottles. On March 12, 1988, Wuornos accused the Daytona Beach bus driver of attacking. He claims that he pushed her off the bus after a confrontation. Moore was listed as a witness to the incident. Until his execution, Wuornos claimed to still fall in love with Moore.
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Murder
- Richard Mallory, age 51, November 30, 1989 - Owner of electronics store in Clearwater. Wuornos's first victim was a rapist who was found to have killed in self-defense. Two days later, a deputy sheriff of Volusia County found Mallory's abandoned vehicle. On December 13, his body was found several miles away in a wooded area; he had been shot several times, two bullets to the left lung were found to be the cause of death. It was at this killing that Wuornos was initially cursed.
- David Spears, age 43 - Construction worker at Winter Garden. On June 1, 1990, her naked body was found along Florida State Road 19 in Citrus County. He has been shot six times.
- Charles Carskaddon, age 40, May 31, 1990 - Part-time rodeo worker. On June 6, 1990, his corpse was found in Pasco County. He has been shot nine times with small caliber weapons.
- Peter Siems, a 65-year-old retired seafarer who has devoted much of his time to Christian outreach services. In June 1990, Siems left Jupiter, Florida, to Arkansas. On July 4, 1990, his car was found in Orange Springs, Florida. Moore and Wuornos are seen leaving the car, and Wuornos palm prints are found in the interior door handle. His body was never found.
- Troy Burress, age 50 - Sausage vendor from Ocala. On July 31, 1990, he was reported missing. On August 4, 1990, his body was found in a wooded area along State Road 19 in Marion County. He has been shot twice.
- Charles "Dick" Humphreys, age 56, September 11, 1990 - Retired US Air Force, former Child Abuse Investigator, and former Chief of Police. On September 12, 1990, his body was found in Marion County. He was fully dressed and had been shot six times in the head and body. His car was found in Suwannee County.
- Walter Jeno Antonio, age 62 - Truck driver, security guard, and police backup. On November 19, 1990, Antonio's almost naked body was found near a remote logging road in Dixie County. He has been shot four times. Five days later, his car was found in Brevard County.
Justice system
Apprehension and verdict
On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Moore left Siems's car after they were involved in an accident. Witnesses who have seen women who drive victims' cars provide police with their names and descriptions, resulting in a media campaign to find them. Police also found some of the victim's belongings in the pawnshop and fingerprints were matched to those found in the victims' cars. Wuornos has a criminal record in Florida, and his fingerprints are in the archives.
On January 9, 1991, Wuornos was arrested with an extraordinary warrant at The Last Resort, a biker bar in Volusia County. Police placed Moore the next day in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He agreed to gain recognition from Wuornos in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Moore returned with the police to Florida, where he was stationed at a motel. Under police guidance, he makes numerous phone calls to Wuornos, asking for help to clear his name. Three days later, on January 16, 1991, Wuornos confessed to murder. He claims people have tried to rape him and he kills them to defend himself.
A year later, on January 14, 1992, Wuornos went to court for the murder of Mallory; although prior beliefs are usually unacceptable in criminal proceedings, under the Williams of Florida Regulations, prosecutions are allowed to introduce evidence of other crimes to show the pattern of illegal activity. On January 27, 1992, Wuornos was convicted of Mallory murder with the help of Moore's testimony. In his sentence, the psychiatrists for the defense testified that Wuornos was mentally unstable and had been diagnosed with a personality disorder threshold and antisocial personality disorder. Four days later, he was sentenced to death.
On March 31, 1992, Wuornos did not appeal to the murders of Humphreys, Burress, and Spears, saying that he wanted to "do right with God". In his statement in court, he said, in part: "I want to confess to you that Richard Mallory violently raped me as I said, but others did not. [They] just started it." On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death penalties.
In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the killing of Carskaddon; in November 1992, he received the fifth death sentence. The defense made an effort during the trial to introduce evidence that Mallory had attempted to commit rape in Maryland and that he had committed to a maximum security correctional facility that provided remediation to sexual offenders. Records obtained from the agency reflect that, from 1958 to 1962, Mallory committed to the care and observations resulting from criminal charges against assault in order to rape and receive eight years of comprehensive care of the facility. In 1961, "it was observed to Mr. Mallory that he had a strong sociopathic trend". The judge refused to allow this to be accepted in court as evidence and refused Wuornos' request for a retrial. In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded guilty to Antonio's murder and was sentenced to death again. No allegations were made against him for the killing of Siems, because his body was never found. Overall, he received six death penalties.
Wuornos tells some inconsistent stories about the murder. Initially he claimed that the seven men had raped him while he was working as a prostitute but later withdrew the claim of self-defense, for reasons of robbery and the desire not to leave the witness as the reason for the murder. During an interview with filmmaker Nick Broomfield, when he thought the camera was dead, he told him that it was actually a self-defense, but he could not stand being sentenced to death - where he was for ten years at the time. point - and want to die.
Judged using the Psychopath Checklist, Wuornos scored 32/40. The checklist evaluates the individual on the 20-item list of antisocial and interpersonal behaviors, with each item scored zero, 1 or 2 and thus a maximum score of 40. Depending on the location and research perspective, scores above 25 or 30 are consistent with a psychopathic diagnosis.
Execution
Wuornos was imprisoned in Florida Department of Correction Bressard Correctional Institution (BCI) death sentence for women, then transferred to Florida State Prison for execution. His appeal to the US Supreme Court was rejected in 1996. In a 2001 petition to the Florida Supreme Court, he declared his intention to dismiss his legal counsel and to end all pending solicitation. "I killed those people," he wrote, "rob them of ice, and I'll do it again no chance to keep me alive or anything else, because I'll kill again I hate to crawl through my system... I very sick of hearing these 'crazy' things I have been evaluated many times I am competent, sane, and I am trying to tell the truth I am a serious person who hates human life and will kill again. "While his lawyer argues that he mentally incompetent to make such requests, Wuornos insisted that he knew what he was doing, and the court-appointed psychiatrist panel.
In 2002, Wuornos began to accuse prison mothers of tainting his food with dirt, saliva, and urine. He said that he had overheard conversations among prison personnel "trying to make me so motivated by them I ended up killing myself before the execution" and "wanting to rape me before the execution". She also complained about strip searches, tight handcuffs, door kicking, frequent window checks, low water pressure, mold on her mattress, and "cat summoned... in hatred and pure hatred towards me". Wuornos threatened to boycott the bathroom and food tray when certain officers were on duty. "Meanwhile, my stomach growls and I take a shower through my cell basin." His lawyer stated that "Ms. Wuornos really just wants to have the right treatment, the humane treatment until the day she is executed." He added, "He believes what he wrote."
In the weeks before his execution, Wuornos gave a series of interviews to Broomfield. He described, "being taken away to meet the Lord and Jesus and the angels and whatever is out of bounds". In his last interview, he once again charged that his mind was "tortured" in BCI, and his head was destroyed by "sonic pressure". Food poisoning and other offenses are worsening, he says, whenever he complains, in order to make him look crazy, or drive him crazy. He also turned on the interviewer: "You sabotage the donkey! Society, and the police, and the system! A woman who was raped was executed, and used for books and movies and dirt!" His last words in the camera were "Thank you so much, society, for training my ass." Dawn Botkins, a childhood friend of Wuornos, then told Broomfield that his verbal abuse was aimed at the public and the media in general, not in himself specifically.
Wuornos execution took place on October 9, 2002. He died at 9.49 am. He declined his last meal that could have been under $ 20 and chose a cup of coffee instead. His last words were, "Yes, I just wanted to say I sailed on a rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day , with Jesus June 6, like the movie.The big airplanes and everything, I'll be back, I'll be back. "She is the tenth woman in the United States and the second in Florida to be executed since the 1976 US Supreme Court ruling restored the death penalty.
After death
Wuornos's body was cremated, and his ashes were spread under a tree in his native Michigan by Botkins. Wuornos requested that Natalie Merchant's song "Carnival" be played at his funeral. Merchant commented on this when asked why he allowed "Carnival" to play during the credits of Aileen's documentary: Life and Death from Serial Killers :
When director Nick Broomfield sent the editing of the film, I was very disturbed by the subject that I could not even bear to see. Aileen Wuornos lives a tortured and tortured life that is beyond my worst nightmare. Not until I was told that Aileen spent a lot of time listening to my album Tigerlily while in jail and asking for "Carnival" played at her funeral that I gave permission for the use of the song. It is very strange to think of the musical places I can go on so leave my hands. If it gives him consolation, I should be grateful.
Broomfield then speculated about Wuornos's motives and state of mind:
I think this outrage is growing inside him. And he works as a prostitute. I think he has a lot of horrible encounters on the way. And I think this outrage just comes out of her. And finally exploded. Into the tremendous violence. That's the way to survive. I think Aileen really believes that he has killed in self-defense. I think a very psychotic person can not really tell the difference between something that threatens life and something that is a minor dispute, that you can say something that he does not approve of. He will be angry at it. And I think that's what's causing this to happen. And at the same time, when he is not in that extreme mood, there is a great humanity for him.
In popular culture
Books
FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler mentioned Wuornos only briefly in the history of 20-year-old autobiography with the FBI. Writing in 1992, he says he often does not discuss female serial killers because they tend to kill in sprees instead of sequentially. He noted Wuornos as the only exception. Ressler, who allegedly created the phrase "serial killer" to describe murderers seeking personal satisfaction, did not apply it to women who killed in postpartum psychosis or to murderers acting solely for financial gain, such as women who had killed a number of passengers or spouses..
In 2002, journalist Sue Russell wrote a book about Wuornos entitled Lethal Intent . In 2012, Lisa Kester and Daphne Gottlieb edit and publish collections of letters written over a ten-year span from Wuornos to Botkins. The book is titled: Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words .
Documentary
Filmmaker Nick Broomfield directed two documentary films about Wuornos:
- Aileen Wuornos: Serial Killer Sales (1993)
- Aileen: On and Off Serial Killer (2003)
Wuornos is the subject of the episodes of the TV serial series American Justice , Biography and Deadly Woman . She is also featured in the episode of the TV series, The New Detectives (season 3, episode 1: "Fatal Compulsion").
Movies
Film TV Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story (1992) membintangi Jean Smart sebagai Aileen.
Theatrical film Monster (2003) starred Charlize Theron as Wuornos. It tells the story of Wuornos from childhood to his first murder conviction. The film earned Theron an Academy Award for Best Actress to play Wuornos.
Other media
An adaptation of Wuornos' opera life premiered in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on June 22, 2001. Titled Wuornos , the opera was written by composer/libretist Carla Lucero, performed by Mary Chun, and produced by Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts.
Several musicians have written songs about Wuornos, including Jewel ("Nicotine Love") and the New York-based metalcore band, It Dies Today ("Sixth of June"). The poet Doron Braunshtein presents a poem for him, entitled "Aileen Wuornos", which appears on the CD of the words he uttered in 2011 The Obsession Poet .
Singer Diamanda GalÃÆ'¡s recorded live cover of Phil Ochs's song "Iron Lady", which he often did as a tribute to Wuornos, for his Malediction and Prayer album.
A song by "Dolly's circus" named "Aileen song" written and published in 2012.
The poem "Sugar Zero" by Rima Banerji is dedicated to Wuornos and appeared in the publication of Press Pulp 2005, Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts.
Lily Rabe describes the fictional version of Wuornos as part of the Halloween storyline in the American Horror Story: Hotel in the fourth episode of the fifth season of the event, and then at the end of the season.
Psychopathology model
Wuornos's crime is closely related to the female psychopathology model that kills and is associated with psychopathic personality. Using the Psychopath Checklist, Wuornos proved to have a psychopathic personality with a PCL-R score of 32 with a cutoff score for psychopaths being at 30 in the United States. Wuornos is also known to meet the right criteria for having personality threshold disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Much of Wuornos's childhood and early career in prostitution are said to have undermined it irrevocably and it can be seen that the traumatic experience in most of his young life can play a part in Wuornos's psychological state, including his departure from his biological mother and her grandmother ignoring the abuse she experiences from his grandfather, thus causing a lack of development of a "mother-child bond" to Wuornos as a young girl. The damage was then worse because both Wuornos and his brother believed that their grandparents were their real parents, but by the age of eleven it was not his case that deepened the relationship between Wuornos and his adoptive parents. Wuornos is also known to have initial behavior problems such as having explosive properties that limit his ability to befriend and make it more difficult to maintain relationships.
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