“Dear lord Jesus, I know I’ve done some wicked things in my life and lord god I know I deserve hell..I need to bring myself to your throne begging if you’d forgive me for all the over whelming evil I’ve done in this world.” Aileen Wuornos.
Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman in Michigan on February 29, 1956.Her mother, Diane Wuornos was fourteen years old when she married Aileen’s father, 16-year-old Leo Dale Pittman On June 3, 1954. Aileen's older brother Keith was born on March 14, 1955. After less than two years of marriage, Diane filed for divorce.
Leo Dale Pittman was diagnosed with schizophrenia and later convicted of sex crimes against children, he committed suicide by hanging in prison on 1969. In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents who were both alcoholics. By the age of 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. She had also engaged in sexual activities with her brother. Wuornos said that her alcoholic grandfather had sexually assaulted and beaten her when she was a child. At age 14, she became pregnant, having been raped by a friend of her grandfather and the child was placed for adoption.
When Wuornos was 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and she began working as a prostitiute and living in the woods near her old home
In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where she met 69-year-old yacht club president, Lewis Gratz Fell. They got married ; However, Wuornos continually got into fights at their local bar and ,She also hit Fell with his own cane, leading him to gain a restraining order against her within weeks of the marriage. She returned to Michigan.
On July 17, her brother Keith died of cancer.She was devastated by her brother death. Wuornos received $10,000 from his life insurance. In August 1976, Wuornos was given a $105 fine for drunk driving. She used the money inherited from her brother buying a new car, which she wrecked shortly afterwards.
Aileen was arrested many times for many thefts and went many times to jail. Wuornos met Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, at a lesbian bar They moved in together, and Wuornos supported them with her earnings as a prostitute
Murders
Wuornos murdered seven men within a period of 12 months.
· Richard Charles Mallory, age 51, November 30, 1989,Wuornos' first victim was a convicted rapist whom she claimed to have killed in self defense.Two days later, a sheriff 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.
· David Andrew Spears, age 47—Construction worker. He was declared missing as of May 19, 1990. On June 1, 1990, his naked body was found . He had been shot six times by a .22 pistol.
· Charles Edmund Carskaddon, age 40, May 31, 1990.. On June 6, 1990, his body was found, He had been shot nine times with a .20 caliber weapon. The body had been wrapped in an electric blanket, and the body was badly decomposing when found. Witnesses saw Wuornos in possession of Carskaddon's car.
· Peter Abraham Siems, age 65, On July 4, Wuornos were seen abandoning the car, and Wuornos' palm print was found on the interior door handle. His body was never found.
· Troy Eugene Burress, age 50, On July 31, 1990, he was reported missing. On August 4, 1990, his body was found in a wooded area . He had been shot twice.
· Charles Richard "Dick" Humphreys, age 56, September 11, 1990, On September 12, 1990, his body was found . He was fully clothed and had been shot six times in the head and torso.
· Walter Jeno Antonio, age 62—Trucker, security guard.On November 19, 1990, Antonio's nearly naked body was found . He had been shot four times.
Authorities were eventually able to track down Wuornos Moore from fingerprints and palm prints left in the crashed vehicle of another missing man, Peter Siems. Wuornos was arrested in a bar in Port Orange, Florida, while police tracked down Moore in Pennsylvania. To avoid prosecution, Moore made a deal, and in mid-January 1991, she elicited a phone confession from Wuornos, who took full and sole responsibility for the murders. She received six death sentences out of 7 men she killed.
Wuornos told several inconsistent stories about the killings. She claimed initially that all seven men had raped her while she was working as a prostitute but later recanted the claim of self-defense. During an interview with filmmaker Nick Broomfield when she thought the cameras were off, she told him that it was, in fact, self-defense, but she could not stand being on death row where she had been for ten years at that point and wanted to die.
Execution
Wuornos stated her intention to dismiss her legal counsel and terminate all pending appeals. "I killed those men," she wrote, "robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too. There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system...I am so sick of hearing this 'she's crazy' stuff. I've been evaluated so many times. I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again." While her attorneys argued that she was not mentally competent to make such a request, Wuornos insisted that she knew what she was doing.
In 2002, Wuornos accused prison matrons of tainting her food with dirt,saliva, and urine. She also complained of tight handcuffing, door kicking, frequent window checks, low water pressure. Her attorney stated that "Ms. Wuornos really just wants to have proper treatment, humane treatment until the day she's executed."
In the weeks before her execution, Wuornos gave a series of interviews to Broomfield and talked about "being taken away to meet God and Jesus and the angels and whatever is beyond the beyond".In her final interview turned on her interviewer: "You sabotaged my ass! Society, and the cops, and the system! A raped woman got executed, and was used for books and movies and shit!"Her final on-camera words were "Thanks a lot, society, for railroading my ass."
“Let them know that the cops knew who I was. I left finger prints everywhere and they covered it up and let me kill the rest of those guys to turn me into a serial killer. I know they did, because I was no professional serial killer”- Aileen Wuornos
Wuornos's execution took place on October 9, 2002. She died by lethal injection at 9:47 a.m. EDT. She declined her last meal which could have been anything under $20 and asked for a cup of coffee instead. Her last words were, "Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like independence day with Jesus. June 6, like the movie. Big mother ship and all, I'll be back, I'll be back."
Wuornos's body was cremated and her ashes were spread beneath a tree in her native Michigan by her childhood friend, Dawn Botkins.
“You are inhumane bunch of fuckn bastards and bitches and you are gonna get your asses nuked in the end. And pretty soon its coming, 2019 a rock is supposed to hit you anyway. You are all gonna get nuked”-Aileen Wuornos
