Aileen Wournos

             FBI's first female serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, gained worldwide notoriety with her murders of seven men, a long legal trial, and her want for execution. With notoriety comes the life history of a criminal, people want to know what makes them tick, what caused these fateful days, and how can we analysis different aspects of crimes. Her crimes could be analyzed by any of the eight types of criminal theories and thinkers, Neoclassical and Psychological are just two discussed. Aileen Wuornos had a troubled, tragic life and full understood her actions, even after she asked to be executed.
             Aileen Wuornos was born Aileen Pittman in Rochester, Michigan on February 29, 1956. Her mother, Diane Wuornos married Leo Pittman at 15 and gave birth to Keith and Aileen. Her parents were just a teenage couple that had divorced a few months prior to her birth. Lee Pittman ended up serving time in Kansas and Michigan mental hospitals as a deranged child-molester. (1, pg 1) In 1960, Diane found single parenting of two children too much and abandoned Keith and Aileen with her parents Lauri and Britta Wuornos. The grandparents adopted the two children as their own, and their name changed to Wuornos. Aileen discovered this fact when she was 12 years old.
             Lauri Wuornos, Aileen's grandfather, drank heavily and had strict rules for the children. When Aileen knew the couple was her grandparents and not biological parents, she rebelled. Aileen became pregnant at the age of 14 and was sent to an unwed mothers' home until the baby boy was born. The child was put up for adoption right after the birth in March 1971. July 1971, Aileen's grandmother Britta died. It was blamed on liver failure, and Aileen suspected her grandfather killed her. A few years later, Lauri committed suicide and her brother died of cancer and she received $10,000 in life insurance, which she spent in under two months. She became a drifter, using drugs and turning t...

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