Research Paper On Aileen Wournos

Every individual believes they have gone through the worst of the worst. Everyone believes they have hit rock bottom with no life preserver to help revive them. Hope seems invisible and life becomes a task instead of a gift. The infamous serial killer Aileen Wournos has truly been to rock bottom and her life preserver consisted of the urge to pull others down with her. Aileen Carol Pittman was born in Rochester, Michigan on February 29, 1956. Her parents divorced two months before she entered the world. Wournos’ father had been incarcerated for convicting sex crimes and diagnosed with schizophrenia at the time she was born. She never actually met her father before he hung himself in prison in 1969. At the young age of four, Aileen’s mother

She was married to Lewis Gratz Fell for a short nine weeks until he caught on to her psychotic tendencies and filed a restraining order against her and demanded divorce. She was arrested in 1976 for disturbing the peace by throwing a cue ball at a bartender's head and again for robbing a convenience store. Wournos received $10,000 from her brother’s life insurance after he passed away from esophageal cancer and used that money to pay her DUI ticked and purchase a new car that was wrecked not very long after she purchased it. She was arrested around 5-6 times again following those incidents for multiple attempts at armed

They were living solely off of Wournos’ prostitution earnings. Both Wournos and Moore were arrested at a Daytona bar for allegedly beating someone with a beer bottle. Event after event is proving that Wournos is unstable of living her own life and making smart decisions. Aileen Wournos was guilty of murdering 7 men who she claimed had raped her. She explains her actions as “self-defense” but were actually the tendencies of a true psychopath. Each one of her victims were claimed have been raping her. Wournos began by murdering Richard Mallory by shooting two bullets to his left lung. She then went on to murder David Spears, Charles Carskaddon, Peter Siems, Troy Burress, Charles Humphreys, and Walter Jene Antonio by bullet and for the same reasons. Some had actually been raping her but a few, she claimed, were only “starting to”. Wournos claimed in an interview that she loved killing people and wanted to die herself. She explained how she hated human life and couldn’t stand being on death row anymore. She was arrested in 1991 from a bar in Volusia County. She pleaded guilty and explained her love for killing in court. The judges thought she was too mentally unstable to be saying that she wants to die, but her attorney believed that was