Aileen Wuornos
‘When I was a little
girl, I always wanted to be a nun’
Aileen
Wuornos, born Aileen Carol Pittman, was an American woman who was born in
Detroit, Michigan to a 14 year old mother and 19 year old father who was in
fact a child molester, later imprisoned for the rape and kidnap of a 7 year old
girl. Though her parents married it was
not to last with her father leaving before her birth. Aileen never knew her father who eventually
hanged himself at a prison in Michigan in 1971.
She was adopted by her grandparents in March 1961 along with her elder
brother Keith, a fact she did not discover until she was 11 years old. A harsh upbringing followed with many
beatings, whose marks were observed by others, while it was believed that she
had a sexual relationship with her brother.
To say she had a troubled childhood is an extreme understatement and
like her mother she gave birth to a child, a boy, that was adopted in
1971. Aileen went on to have tumultuous
relationships with many men eventually leading to the murder of seven men in
Florida. Wuornos is the first American
woman to match the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)’s profile of a serial
killer.
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