![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother abandoned Wuornos and her brother by the time Wuornos was about four years old, leaving them in the care of grandparents. He committed suicide by hanging himself in prison in 1969. Her father ended up in prison, diagnosed with schizophrenia and convicted of raping a child. Her young parents divorced before she was born. Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956. Wuornos’ ChildhoodĪs with most serial killers, Wuornos had a very troubled childhood. Women are not supposed to be serial killers. Because it turned into such a sensational and highly publicized case, many people point to her as the first American serial killer because she was the first one they had ever heard of. However, Wuornos chose her victims at random, had no prior connection with them, and shot them to death. Many female serial killers kill people they know, and usually in more discrete ways like poison or suffocation. What is notable about her is the way she killed her victims. There were numerous female serial killers before she killed 7 men between 19. SeptemAileen Wuornos: American Female Serial KillerĪileen Wuornos has been called by many the first female serial killer in America.
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