Aileen Wuornos

  • Aileen Carol Pittman is born

    Aileen Carol Pittman is born
    Troy Michigan
  • Dianne Wuornos abandons her children

    When Aileen was four years old, her mother left her and her brother Keith
  • Wuornos Grandparents adopt Aileen and Keith

  • Leo Pittman hangs himself in prison

    He was convicted of sex crimes against children
  • Becomes pregnant at 14 years old

    Raped by her grandfather and an accomplice.
  • Gives birth to a boy

    She placed him up for adoption and soon dropped out of school. Her grandmother died of liver failure soon after and then her grandpa threw her out of the house. She then became a prostitute to support herself.
  • Aileen is arrested at 18 for a DUI and shooting a pistol from a moving car in Colorado

  • Fined for drunk driving

    She used Keith's insurance money to pay for the fine then bought a new fancy car, which she wrecked shortly after.
  • She hitched hike to Florida where she met her soon to be husband

    Her husband was 69 years old and a yacht president.They married the same year and soon divorced after she was arrested again for assault.
  • She is arrested again for assault

    She threw a cue ball at a bartender's head and three days later her brother died from cancer.
  • Arrested in Florida for armed robbery

    She stole $35 and a pack a cigarettes.
  • Sentenced to prison

  • Gets out of prison

  • Arrested for forging checks

  • Arrsted in Miami for resisting arrest, car theft, and obstruction of justice

    Police found a gun and ammunition in the car.
  • First Victim

    Aileen murders Richard Mallory, a convicted rapist, who she claimed she killed in self defense. She had shot him multiple times.
  • Murders David Spears

    His nude body was found on the side of a road shot six times.
  • Charles Carskaddon

    His body was found in Pasco county. He had been shot nine times.
  • Peter Siems murder

    His car was found in Orange Springs, but his body was never recovered.
  • Troy Burress Murder

    His body was found shot twice in the woods.
  • Dick Humphreys Murder

    His body was found shot six times in Marion county.
  • Walter Antonio Murder

    His nude body was found in Dixie county on a logging road, shot four times.
  • Aileen is arrested

    Arrested on an outstanding warrant in a biker bar.
  • Aileen confesses to all the murders

    She claimed every single one was trying to rape her so she killed them in self defense.
  • Trial for Mallory murder begins

    A week later she was convicted. The defense testified that she had borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Four days later she was sentenced to death.
  • Wuornos pleads no contest to the other murders

    She claimed she "wanted to get right with God". She admitted that Mallory did violently rape her, but the others only tried to. She received six death sentences.
  • Aileen Wuornos is executed

    She declined her last meal. She was the tenth woman to be executed in the US and the second in Florida