Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! [26] On May 1, 1984, Wuornos was arrested for attempting to pass forged checks at a bank in Key West. Mallory had been shot multiple times in the chest. Aileen Carol Wuornos was a serial killer who had killed seven men. She used the money inherited from her brother to pay the fine and spent the rest within two months buying luxuries including a new car, which she wrecked shortly afterwards. Wuornos was incarcerated at the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution death row for women for the final years of her life. Wuornos says her grandfather was an abusive alcoholic, and she later admits to having a brief sexual relationship with her brother. At age 11, Wuornos begins having sex with neighborhood boys in exchange for cigarettes and spare change, earning her the nickname Cigarette Pig.. He had been shot four times in the back and head. 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. She was gone for three weeks before being captured and sent back to the school. When she was four, her and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents. October 9, 2002: Aileen Wuornos was put to death by lethal injection in Florida State Prison at the age of 46. Reaching the edge of a field she would have to cross. By the age of 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. A disturbing clip shows the moment serial killer Aileen Wuornos proudly admits to killing seven men, before revealing exactly why she did it. [32], On March 12, 1988, Wuornos accused a Daytona Beach bus driver of assault. In mid-December 1989, the body of Richard Mallory was found in a junkyard, with five more mens bodies to be discovered over subsequent months. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy at a home for unwed mothers. The body was fully clothed and had suffered multiple gunshots to the head and torso. Writing in 1992, he said he often does not discuss female serial killers because they tend to kill in sprees instead of in a sequential fashion. A decade later, having been involved in numerous additional crimes, Wuornos met 24-year-old Tyria Moore in Daytona, Florida, and the two embarked on a romantic relationship. . Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Sixty-five year old Peter Siems left central Florida and headed for New Jersey in June of 1990. Loading. [57] She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision restoring capital punishment.[58]. [2][16] Wuornos was arrested in a bar in Port Orange, Florida, while police tracked down Moore in Pennsylvania. Best Known For: An abused child who later earned her living as a sex worker, Aileen Wuornos was found guilty of killing six men and was later executed in a Florida prison. His body was found by a Volusia County deputy shot. [84][83] In 2020, rapper Sadistik released the song "Aileen Wuornos", dedicated to the serial killer, on his Delirium EP.[85]. Aileen Wuornos was a rarity in true crime, a true female serial killer. On January 27, 1992, a jury found Wuornos guilty of first-degree murder for the Mallory case and she received the death penalty. [39] Police also found some of the victims' belongings in pawnshops. Moore and Wuornos were seen abandoning the car, and Wuornos' palm print was found on the interior door handle. In 1961, "it was observed of Mr. Mallory that he possessed strong sociopathic trends". [1] In June 1992, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murder of Charles Edmund Carskaddon. Wuornos is abandoned by her mother as an infant, and she and her older brother Keith grow up with their grandparents in Troy, Michigan. Wuornos' ashes were scattered beneath a tree in her native Michigan by Wuornos' childhood friend Dawn Botkins. Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman. In one version, Wuornos stated she told Moore that she had found a dead body hidden under a scrap of rug in the woods. However, it is important to keep in mind the corruption that went on behind the scenes during this case, which could call into question the validity of Moore's testimony, as well as the hyper-critical manner in which Lee's behavior was approached. Several musicians have written songs about Wuornos, including Jewel ("Nicotine Love"), the New York-based metalcore band It Dies Today ("Sixth of June"), and Pablo Hasl ("Inditas por culpa de Aileen Wuornos"). She subsequently was arrested numerous times on charges that included armed robbery, check forgery, and auto theft. Feb 29, 1956. Entitled Wuornos, the opera was written by composer/librettist Carla Lucero, conducted by Mary Chun, and produced by the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts.[79]. Her son is immediately put up for adoption. NTOZAKE SHANGE. Coco Chanel. Her Finnish-American mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was fourteen years old when she married Aileen's English American father, 16-year-old Leo Dale Pittman (1937-1969), on June 3, 1954. [1] Her last words were, "Yes, I would just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back, like Independence Day, with Jesus. . TIMELINE OF AILEEN WUORNOS' CRIMES December 1989: Wuornos started killing men in and around Central Florida.