In 1976, Wuornos hitchhiked to Florida, where she met 69-year-old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell. She was later charged with failure to appear. On May 27, 1974, at age 18, Wuornos was arrested in Jefferson County, Colorado, for driving under the influence (DUI), disorderly conduct, and firing a. When Wuornos was 15, her grandfather threw her out of the house, and she began living in the woods near her old home and supported herself through prostitution. A few months after her son was born, she dropped out of school at about the same time that her grandmother died of liver failure.

Wuornos gave birth to a boy at a home for unwed mothers on March 23, 1971, and the child was placed for adoption. In 1970, at age 14, she became pregnant, having been raped by a family friend. Before beating her, he would force her to strip out of her clothes.

Wuornos said that her alcoholic grandfather had sexually assaulted and beaten her when she was a child. She had also engaged in sexual activities with her brother. īy the age of 11, Wuornos began engaging in sexual activities in school in exchange for cigarettes, drugs, and food. In January 1960, when Wuornos was almost four years old, Diane abandoned her children, leaving them with their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos, both alcoholics, who legally adopted Keith and Aileen on March 18, 1960. He committed suicide by hanging in prison on January 30, 1969. Pittman was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Leo Pittman was later sentenced to life imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a 7-year-old girl. She gave birth to Aileen at the age of 16. After less than two years of marriage, and two months before Aileen was born, Diane filed for divorce. On March 14, 1955, Diane gave birth to Aileen's older brother Keith. Her mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 14 years old when she married Aileen's father, 18-year-old Leo Pittman (1936–1969), on June 3, 1954. Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman on Februin Rochester, Michigan. In the feature film Monster (2003), Wuornos' story is described from her first murder until her execution for her portrayal of Wuornos, Charlize Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was executed on Octoby lethal injection after spending more than 10 years on Florida's death row. Wuornos was sentenced to death for six of the murders. Wuornos claimed that her clients had either raped or attempted to rape her, and that the homicides of the men were committed in self-defense. In 1989–1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, she shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. Aileen Carol Wuornos ( / ˈ w ɔːr n oʊ s/ born Pittman Febru– October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer.

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