Aileen Wuornos

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Aileen Wuornos

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Wuornos never met her father.{{sfn|Macleod|2003|loc=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080410203250/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/wuornos/2.html chapter 2]}} In 1967, Leo Pittman was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] for kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old girl.{{Cite web |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1967/44-582-0.html |title=State v. Pittman |website=Law.justia.com |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106093357/https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1967/44-582-0.html |url-status=live }} Pittman, diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]], committed [[suicide by hanging]] in prison on January 30, 1969.{{cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Amanda |last2=Smith |first2=Martin |title=River of Blood: Serial Killers and Their Victims |publisher=[[Universal Publishers (United States)|Universal Publishers]] |location=Irvine, California |year=2004 |page=332 |isbn=978-1-58112-518-4}} In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, who legally adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960.{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos |title=Aileen Wuornos Biography |date=April 27, 2017 |website=biography.com |access-date=May 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509194537/https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos |url-status=live }} Both grandparents were [[alcoholism|alcoholics]].
Wuornos never met her father.{{sfn|Macleod|2003|loc=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080410203250/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/wuornos/2.html chapter 2]}} In 1967, Leo Pittman was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] for kidnapping and raping a seven-year-old girl.{{Cite web |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1967/44-582-0.html |title=State v. Pittman |website=Law.justia.com |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=January 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230106093357/https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1967/44-582-0.html |url-status=live }} Pittman, diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]], committed [[suicide by hanging]] in prison on January 30, 1969.{{cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Amanda |last2=Smith |first2=Martin |title=River of Blood: Serial Killers and Their Victims |publisher=[[Universal Publishers (United States)|Universal Publishers]] |location=Irvine, California |year=2004 |page=332 |isbn=978-1-58112-518-4}} In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, who legally adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960.{{cite web |url=https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos |title=Aileen Wuornos Biography |date=April 27, 2017 |website=biography.com |access-date=May 1, 2020 |archive-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200509194537/https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/aileen-wuornos |url-status=live }} Both grandparents were [[alcoholism|alcoholics]].


Wuornos said that her grandfather had [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] and beaten her when she was a child. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes.{{cite journal |last1=Silvio |first1=Heather |last2=McCloskey |first2=Kathy |last3=Ramos-Grenier |first3=Julia |title=Theoretical consideration of female sexual predator serial killers in the United States |journal=[[Journal of Criminal Justice]] |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |location=Amsterdam, Netherlands |date=May–June 2006 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=251–259 |doi=10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2006.03.006}} By age 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activity at school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food.{{cite book |last=Howard |first=Peter |title=Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters |publisher=[[Penguin Publishing]] |location=New York City |year=2007 |pages=142–143 |isbn=978-0-425-21390-2}} She had also engaged in sexual activity [[incest|with her brother]]. In 1970, at age 14, she became pregnant{{Cite web |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/126181-8-surprising-facts-about-notorious-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-that-will-haunt-your-dreams |title=Aileen Wuornos Was Terrifying, But Fascinating|website=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]]|last=Lu|first=Alicia|date=November 25, 2015|access-date=October 26, 2023 }} after being [[rape]]d by a friend of her grandfather.{{Cite web |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1994/79484-0.html |title=Wuornos v. State|website=Law.justia.com|date=1994 |access-date=October 26, 2023 }}{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Carol Anne |title=Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers |date=2001 |publisher=Allison & Busby, Limited |isbn=978-0-7490-1700-2 |edition=1st |location=London}} Wuornos' friends have claimed that the identity of the rapist who impregnated her was an older local pedophile in his 60s.{{Cite web |date=2016-06-24 |title=When You're Best Friends with a Famous Serial Killer |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/when-youre-best-friends-with-a-famous-serial-killer/ |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}
Wuornos was beat by her grandfather. She also said that her grandfather had [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]]. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes.{{cite journal |last1=Silvio |first1=Heather |last2=McCloskey |first2=Kathy |last3=Ramos-Grenier |first3=Julia |title=Theoretical consideration of female sexual predator serial killers in the United States |journal=[[Journal of Criminal Justice]] |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |location=Amsterdam, Netherlands |date=May–June 2006 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=251–259 |doi=10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2006.03.006}} By age 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activity at school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food.{{cite book |last=Howard |first=Peter |title=Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters |publisher=[[Penguin Publishing]] |location=New York City |year=2007 |pages=142–143 |isbn=978-0-425-21390-2}} She had also engaged in sexual activity [[incest|with her brother]]. In 1970, at age 14, she became pregnant{{Cite web |url=https://www.bustle.com/articles/126181-8-surprising-facts-about-notorious-serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-that-will-haunt-your-dreams |title=Aileen Wuornos Was Terrifying, But Fascinating|website=[[Bustle (magazine)|Bustle]]|last=Lu|first=Alicia|date=November 25, 2015|access-date=October 26, 2023 }} after being [[rape]]d by a friend of her grandfather.{{Cite web |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/florida/supreme-court/1994/79484-0.html |title=Wuornos v. State|website=Law.justia.com|date=1994 |access-date=October 26, 2023 }}{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Carol Anne |title=Women Who Kill: Profiles of Female Serial Killers |date=2001 |publisher=Allison & Busby, Limited |isbn=978-0-7490-1700-2 |edition=1st |location=London}} Wuornos' friends have claimed that the identity of the rapist who impregnated her was an older local pedophile in his 60s.{{Cite web |date=2016-06-24 |title=When You're Best Friends with a Famous Serial Killer |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/when-youre-best-friends-with-a-famous-serial-killer/ |access-date=2025-10-08 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}


Wuornos gave birth to a boy at a [[home for unwed mothers]] on March 23, 1971, and her grandfather forced her to give up the child for [[adoption]].{{sfn|Macleod|2003|loc=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080410203250/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/wuornos/2.html chapter 2]}} A few months after her son was born, she dropped out of school at about the same time that her grandmother died of [[liver failure]]. When Wuornos was aged 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house. Living in the woods near her old home, Wuornos supported herself through [[prostitution]].
Wuornos gave birth to a boy at a [[home for unwed mothers]] on March 23, 1971, and her grandfather forced her to give up the child for [[adoption]].{{sfn|Macleod|2003|loc=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080410203250/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/wuornos/2.html chapter 2]}} A few months after her son was born, she dropped out of school at about the same time that her grandmother died of [[liver failure]]. When Wuornos was aged 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house. Living in the woods near her old home, Wuornos supported herself through [[prostitution]].
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