However, her stories constantly changed throughout the time she was imprisoned. Her first victim was in fact a convicted rapist. The men she murdered were usually shot about 5 or more times and the bodies were dumped in different places.
These men picked Wuornos up on the street, seeing that she was a prostitute or because she was hitchhiking. In , Wuornos moved in with a hotel maid named Tyria Moore, who would become her lover who would help her on her killing sprees.
As it turns out, Moore helped Wuornos kill three more men before she left and moved to Pennsylvania. Wuornos was constantly getting into fights at bars, and this finally led to a warrant for her arrest. Police arrested Moore around the same time, and the police quickly urged her to manipulate Aileen into giving a confession over the phone that could be used against Wuornos in court.
Moore was then considered a witness of the state and was offered full immunity for her cooperation with prosecution. Aileen knew that her girlfriend had completely turned on her, but she just seemed to accept the fact and continue to stay in touch with Moore. While in prison, Aileen grew paranoid that the people preparing her food were spitting in it, so she went on several hunger strikes. She was paranoid of her lawyer and the prison staff, and was a nervous wreck.
She thought everyone was plotting against her, and as a result she asked to fire her defense counsel and to represent herself, and surprisingly, the judge allowed it.
She was now representing herself on a seven count murder trial. She either plead guilty or was found guilty of the murders, and was sentenced to death.
She petitioned the court to hurry her death sentence along, as she claimed she was victim of inhumane treatment and claimed she was being attacked by a sonic weapon. She was found to be psychotic and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Wuornos would later state that she was sexually abused by her grandfather and had sexual relations with her brother. She became pregnant by her early teens, and the infant boy was given up for adoption. During her adolescence, Wuornos was also forced out of her home and lived in the woods. Having previously been a ward of the state, Wuornos subsisted on a vagabond existence as an adult, hitchhiking and engaging in sex work to survive.
She was arrested during the mids for charges related to assault and disorderly conduct and eventually settled in Florida, where she met wealthy yachtsman Lewis Fell. The two were married in , but Fell annulled the union shortly thereafter, upon Wuornos being arrested in another altercation. A decade later, having been involved in numerous additional crimes, Wuornos met year-old Tyria Moore in Daytona, Florida, and the two embarked on a romantic relationship. It would later be revealed that from late into the fall of , Wuornos had murdered at least six men along Florida highways.
Authorities were eventually able to track down Wuornos who had used various aliases and Moore from fingerprints and palm prints left in the crashed vehicle of another missing man, Peter Siems. Wuornos was arrested in a bar in Port Orange, Florida, while police tracked down Moore in Pennsylvania.
To avoid prosecution, Moore made a deal, and in mid-January , she elicited a phone confession from Wuornos, who took full and sole responsibility for the murders. A media frenzy ensued over the case, due in part to the lurid nature of the crimes.
During the trial, Wuornos asserted that she had been raped and assaulted by Mallory and had killed him in self-defense. Though not revealed in court, Mallory had previously served a decade-long prison sentence for sexual assault. She stated that her killing of the five other men had been in self-defense as well, though she would later retract these statements.
On January 27, , a jury found Wuornos guilty of first-degree murder for the Mallory case and she received the death penalty. Over the ensuing months, Wuornos pleaded guilty to the murders of the five other men whose murders she was charged with and received a death sentence for each plea. Outside of court, she later admitted to the killing of Siems, whose body was never recovered.
Spending a decade on death row, Wuornos eventually opted to fire her appeals lawyers, who were working for a stay of execution. But a court-appointed attorney was concerned about comments made by Wuornos that suggested she was profoundly disconnected from reality. In , Florida governor Jeb Bush lifted a temporary stay of execution after three psychiatrists deemed her mentally competent to understand the death penalty and the reasons for its implementation.
Wuornos was executed by lethal injection on the morning of October 9, Her reported last words were, "I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day with Jesus June 6.
Like the movie, big mother ship and all. I'll be back. In a riveting performance that was grueling to watch and hailed by critic Roger Ebert as a cinematic milestone, Theron won an Oscar for best actress in a film that garnered some controversy over the accuracy and scope of its details. We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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