Aileen Wuornos

She met 69-year old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell in 1976. The wealthy man married the young woman the same year. However due to her anti-social behaviour Fell divorced her within weeks of the marriage.

She took a lesbian lover, Tyria Moore in 1986. The couple had a four year long relationship that ended in 1990.

She was awarded six death sentences for the murders she had committed. On 9th October 2002 she was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection.

She was born as Aileen Carol Pittman to Leo Dale and Diane Wuornos. Her father was a psychopath and child molester who was incarcerated at the time of her birth; he eventually committed suicide. Her mother abandoned Aileen and her brother who were adopted by her maternal grandparents.

Her grandfather was a pedophile who sexually abused the girl from a young age. She also developed sexual relations with her brother.

She began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for drugs and food when she was just nine years old. She became pregnant when she was 14 and was moved to a home for unwed mothers; her baby was given up for adoption at birth.

Her grandmother died and she was thrown out of the home by her grandfather. She started working as a prostitute to earn a living.

She was involved in a life of crime from an early age. She was arrested for driving under influence in 1974 and also for disorderly conduct. She failed to appear at the court when summoned.

She was involved in the armed robbery of a convenience store in 1981. She was sentenced to prison and released in June 1983. Over the next couple of years she was arrested again on charge of attempting to pass forged checks and named a suspect in the case of a theft of a revolver.

Her criminal tendencies started to rise in 1986. That year she was charged with car theft, showing false identification, resisting arrest, and for threatening a male companion with a gun. The police found a .22 pistol and spare ammunition she had hidden in the car.

In December 1989 the body of her first known victim, Richard Mallory was found. She claimed that he had tried to rape her and that she had killed in self defense—the man did indeed have a criminal record for rape.

After a period of six months, the body of her second victim was found. In June 1990 the naked body of David Spears was found with multiple bullet wounds. He had been shot with a .22 pistol.

After killing seven men sequentially, Aileen Wuornos earned the ignominious credit of being the first female serial killer from the United States. Her troubled childhood and the events that led to the killings often also generated sympathy in the minds of the public.