#1: Aileen Wuornos, a Real Female Serial Killer
 Aileen Wuornos |
Wuornos, whose story was made into the Hollywood movie "Monster," lived a life seemingly made to create a killer. The closest thing Wuornos ever got to a break was when her father was convicted of raping a 7-year-old girl. It was a break because he never had a chance to meet, and presumably screw up, his infant daughter. When she was 4, Wuornos and her brother were abandoned by their mother in 1960, leaving them to be raised by their maternal grandparents.
From an early age, Wuornos was troubled. Those close to her say she would fly into fits of rage as a young girl, and by the age of 10, she was having sex with her brother. By 11, she was a prostitute, and from that point on, her life was a string of petty crime, aggressive behavior and doomed relationships.
It wasn't until 1989 that Wuornos' violent behavior turned her into a murderer. Her first victim was Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old convicted rapist who owned an electronics store in Clearwater, Florida.
Wuornos claimed to have killed Mallory in self defense, but the multiple gun shot wounds and the fact that she tried to hide the body in a wooded area several miles from his car damaged her story.
Over the course of the next year, Wuornos murdered 6 more times until she was arrested January 9, 1991. She confessed to the murders, but claimed they were in self-defense. She was found guilty of 6 murders and sentenced to death. In 2001, Wuornos halted the appeals process to bring about her execution more quickly.
"I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. And I'd do it again, too," she said in a statement. "There's no chance in keeping me alive or anything, because I'd kill again. I have hate crawling through my system...I am so sick of hearing this 'she's crazy' stuff. I've been evaluated so many times. I'm competent, sane, and I'm trying to tell the truth. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again."
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