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Aug 19, 2023 · American serial killer Aileen Wuornos uttered her unsettling final message moments before she was executed by lethal injection in Florida in 2002 - vowing to return. When asked whether she'd like ...
Oct 15, 2002 · STARKE, Florida (CNN) -- Saying she'd be back, serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed by lethal injection Wednesday at the Florida State Prison in Starke. Wuornos was pronounced dead at 9:47 a ...
Sep 2, 2020 · Aileen Wuornos killed her first victim, 51-year old Richard Charles Mallory, as an act of self-defense. He was a convicted rapist, and she stated that he had sodomized and beaten her under the purview of sexual acts. This happened in 1989, but in the next year, she would go on to kill 6 more men in Florida.
May 16, 2013 · Cynthia Lynn Coffman was 24 when she murdered a 20-year-old woman in San Bernardino County, California, on November 7, 1986. She was sentenced to death on August 31, 1989. California Dept. of ...
- The Troubled Early Life of Aileen Wuornos
- How Wuornos Tried to Escape Her Trauma
- How Aileen Wuornos’ Killing Rampage Began
- The Betrayal That Led to Aileen Wuornos’ Capture
- The Controversial Trial and Execution of A “Monster”
If a psychologist was challenged to invent a childhood that would predictably produce a serial killer, Aileen Wuornos’ life would have been it to the last detail. Wuornos found prostitution early in life, trading sexual favors at her elementary school for cigarettes and other treats at age 11. Of course, she didn’t just pick up the habit on her own...
At the age of 20, Aileen Wuornos tried to escape her life by hitchhiking to Florida and marrying a 69-year-old man named Lewis Fell. Fell was a successful businessman who had settled into semi-retirement as the president of a yacht club. Wuornos moved in with him and immediately started getting into trouble with local law enforcement. She frequentl...
Aileen Wuornos told conflicting stories about her murders. Sometimes, she claimed to have been the victim of rape or attempted rape with every single one of the men she killed. At other times, she admitted she was trying to rob them. Depending on who she was talking to, her story changed. As it happens, her first victim, Richard Mallory, actually w...
It didn’t take long for Tyria Moore to flip on Aileen Wuornos. In the days immediately following her arrest, Moore was back in Florida, staying at a motel the police had rented for her. There, she made calls to Wuornos in an attempt to elicit a confession that could be used against her. In these calls, Moore acted up a storm, pretending to be frigh...
Aileen Wuornos went on trial for the murder of Richard Mallory on January 16, 1992, and was convicted two weeks later. The sentence was death. Around a month after, she pleaded no contest to three more murders, for which the sentences were also death. In June 1992, Wuornos plead guilty to the murder of Charles Carskaddon and was given yet another d...
Mar 19, 2018 · Here are some of the most shocking moments from the Aileen Wuornos murder trial: 1. Wuornos’ ex-girlfriend pushed her to confess. Shortly after Wuornos’ arrest, police located her ex-girlfriend, Tyria Moore, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Moore, 28, denied any involvement in the murders and agreed to help police in order to clear her own name.
High Standard .22 Revolver. Date apprehended. January 9, 1991. Aileen Carol Wuornos ( / ˈwɔːrnoʊs /; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. [ 3] In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients.
