Aileen Wuornos Research Paper

Aileen Wuornos is one of those criminals who will never be forgotten because of what she all did throughout her life. She started her life very rough as she never had stable parents which makes her prone to more crime later in life. Aileen was born in Rochester, Michigan and grew up there for a while before finally getting kicked out of her house at a young age. Without a father it was very hard for Aileen Wuornos to get that leader role in her life which is most likely why she turned out the way she did. Starting her life in Michigan and ending it in Florida, Aileen had a very rough life that might have uncontrollable based off of her childhood.
Being born on February 29th, 1956 in Rochester Michigan, Aileen Wuornos had a very violent and abusive early years in her life. Her father also known as her role model at the time killed himself in prison while he was serving his sentence for molesting a child. Aileen had an older brother named Keith Wuornos and both of them ended up having to live with their grandparents which did not make situations any better. Their grandma was considered a bad alcoholic and their …show more content…
Men would stop and pick her up because she would be hitchhiking for a ride. People do not know if the men were just being nice or if they just wanted sex from her. “In the middle of December 1989, the body of Richard Mallory was found in a junkyard, with five more male bodies being discovered over following months” (Bio, 2016). After they discovered that body, authorities were eventually able to track down the other five victims that Aileen Wuornos had killed. She was later then tracked down and arrested in a bar located in Port Orange, Florida and Moore, one of her lovers along the way in Pennsylvania. Tyria Moore got out of prosecution because she had a phone conversation saying that Aileen was responsible for all of the murders that were