Aileen Wuornos Serial Killers

There are many murderers in the world, making it hard to feel safe sometimes. No one knows the real reason why people begin to commit crimes, there are multiple theories though. It could be because of environmental changes, inheritance, an unpleasant childhood, or they simply choose to. Female murderers are more unheard of than males. Aileen Wuornos was born in Michigan in 1956 (Biography.com Editors, n/d). She had a very harsh childhood. Her father was in jail for child molestation charges and killed himself there. Her mother abandoned her and her brother, Keith. Their grandparents ended up raising them from that point in their lives. Wuornos’s grandpa was sexually abusive and her grandma was believed to be an alcoholic. Wuornos later stated that she also had sexual relations with her brother and was pregnant in her teens; the baby was given up for adoption. Not much later, Wuornos was kicked out of her grandparent’s home and went on to live in the woods (Biography.com Editors, n/d). It is easy to see that Wuornos did not have an easy childhood, and that could have played a role in the murders she committed.

To survive, she would hitchhike and sell herself for money along the way (Biography.com, n/d). From late 1989 to the fall of 1990, she was responsible for murdering six men in Florida and was a suspect in a seventh (Koch, 2002). In 1992, Wuornos was found guilty for the first murder discovered and got the death penalty. She spent over ten years waiting to be executed by lethal injection. Wuornos ended up firing her lawyers who were trying to delay her execution even more (Biography.com, n/d). It was suggested that Wuornos was insane and didn’t understand what she was doing, but after multiple tests she was declared mentally competent (Koch, 2002). In the fall of 2002, Aileen Wuornos was put to death by lethal