Aileen

Wuornos was born as Aileen Carol Pittman in Rochester, Michigan. She had one older chum salmon named Keith, who was born in February 1955. Her mother, Diane Pratt, was 15 old age old when she married king of beasts Dale Pittman on June 3, 1954. Less than two age into marriage and two months before Wuornos was born, Pratt filed for divorce. Pittman was a child molester who spent around of his life in and out of prison. Wuornos never met her father, as he was confine for the rape and attempted murder of an eight-year-old boy at the time of her birth.Leo Pittman was strangled in prison in 1969. In January 1960, Pratt dispose her children, divergence them with their maternal alarmingparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos. They were legally adopted on process 18, 1960 by the Wuornos family and took their surname. From a young age, Wuornos engaged in sex with multiple partners, including her own brother. At the age of 13, she became pregnant, claiming the pregnancy was a result of bei ng raped by an unknown man. Wuornos gave birth at a Detroit home for unwed mothers on walk 23, 1971. The child, a son, was placed for adoption.On July 7, 1971 Britta Wuornos died of liver adversity, after which Wuornos and her brother became wards of the court. At age 15, Wuornos grandfather threw her out of the house, and she began supporting herself as a prostitute. On whitethorn 27, 1974, Wuornos was arrested in Jefferson County, Colorado for drunk driving, disorderly conduct, and discharge a . 22-caliber side arm from a moving vehicle. She was later charged with failure to appear. In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where she met 70-year-old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell (June 28, 1907 January 6, 2000).They married that selfsame(prenominal) year, and the news of their nuptials was printed in the local newspapers society pages. However, Wuornos continually relate herself in confrontations at their local head off and was eventually sent to immure for labialize . She also hit Fell with his own cane, leading him to look at a restraining order against her, after which she returned to Michigan. On July 14, 1976, Wuornos was arrested in Antrim County, Michigan and charged with besiege and disturbing the peace following an mishap in which she threw a hint ball at a bartenders head.On July 17, her brother Keith died of throat crabmeat and Wuornos acquired $10,000 from his life insurance. Wuornos and Fell divorced on July 21 after night club weeks of marriage. On May 20, 1981, Wuornos was arrested in Edgewater, Florida for the armed robbery of a thingmajig store. She was consequently sentenced to prison on May 4, 1982 and released on June 30, 1983. On May 1, 1984, Wuornos was arrested for attempting to pass forged checks at a bank in tell West. On November 30, 1985, she was named as a suspect in the theft of a revolver and ammunition in Pasco County.On January 4, 1986, Wuornos was arrested in Miami and charged with grand theft auto, resis ting arrest and obstruction by false information (she provided credit with the name Lori Grody, her aunt). Miami guard found a . 38-caliber revolver and a stroke of ammunition in the stolen railcar. On June 2, 1986, Volusia County deputies detained Wuornos for questioning after a male person companion accused her of pulling a gun in his car and demanding $200. Wuornos was found to be carrying spare ammunition and a . 22 pistol was discovered beneath the passenger seat she occupied.Around this time, Wuornos met Tyria Moore, a hotel maid, at a Daytona gay bar. They moved in together, and Wuornos supported them with her prostitution earnings. On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police detained Wuornos and Moore at a bar for questioning regarding an incident in which they were accused of assault and battery with a beer bottle. On March 12, 1988, Wuornos accused a Daytona Beach bus driver of assault. She claimed that he pushed her collide with the bus following a confrontation. Moore was listed as a witness to the incident.Wuornos and Moore abandoned scratch Siems car after they were involved in an accident on July 4, 1990, after which Wuornos palm print was found. Witnesses who had seen the women driving the victims cars provided police with their names and descriptions, resulting in a media campaign to locate them. Police also found some of the victims belongings in pawnshops and retrieved fingerprints, which matched those found in the victims cars and on Wuornos arrest record. On January 9, 1991, Wuornos was arrested on an outstanding warrant at The Last Resort, a biker bar in Volusia County.Police located Moore the next day in Scranton, Pennsylvania. She hold to get a ownion from Wuornos in exchange for prosecutorial immunity Moore returned with police to Florida, where she was put up in a motel. Under police guidance, Moore make numerous telephone calls to Wuornos, pleading for help in clearing her name. trinity days later, on January 16, 1991, Wuornos con fessed to the murders. She claimed the men had tried to rape her and she killed them in self- excuse. Wuornos went to running for the murder of Richard Mallory on January 14, 1992.Prior bad acts are normally inadmissible in criminal trials, but under Floridas Williams Rule, the prosecution was allowed to introduce point related to her other crimes in order to show a purpose of illegal acts. Wuornos was convicted for Richard Mallorys murder on January 27, 1992 with help from Moores testimony. At her sentencing, psychiatrists for the defense testified that Wuornos was mentally unstable and had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was sentenced to finish on January 31, 1992.On March 31, 1992, Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of Dick Humphreys, Troy Burress and David Spears, saying she wanted to get right with God. In her statement to the court, she stated, I wanted to confess to you that Richard Mallory did violently rape me as Ive told you. But these others did not. They only began to start to. On May 15, 1992, Wuornos was given three more death sentences. In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded disgraced to the murder of Charles Carskaddon and received her fifth death sentence in November 1992.The defense made efforts during the trial to introduce evidence that Mallory had been tried for intent to rive rape in Maryland, and that he had been committed to a maximum gage correctional facility in Maryland which provided remediation to sexual offenders. Records obtained from that mental institution reflected that from 1958 to 1962, Mallory was committed for treatment and observation resulting from a criminal charge of assault with intent to rape, and received an overall eight years of treatment from the facility.In 1961, it was observed of Mr. Mallory that he possessed strong sociopathic trends. The judge refused to allow this to be admitted in court as evidence and denied Wuornos request for a retrial. In February 1993, Wuornos pleaded g uilty to the murder of Walter Jeno Antonio and was sentenced to death again. No charges were brought against her for the murder of Peter Siems, as his body was never found. In all, she received six death sentences.