Aileen Wuornos: The Perfect Serial Murderer

Afraid of being exposed she quickly plotted to get a baby. She killed a woman and stole her baby from the womb. The symptoms shown in this case are symptoms of borderline personality disorder, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, and pseudocyesis. I believe she had personality disorder because she couldn't hold a relationship. She was also scared to be along so every divorce she got she remarried.

She grew up in a little fishing village with little money. As she got older she started looking for work and found herself a job being a highway woman. During this time she committed petty thievery which she didn 't get in trouble for but lead her into more severe problems of Major crimes which ended being resolved in

On December 1, 1989, an intoxicated Alieen confessed to More that she had killed someone that same morning Richard Mallory 59 years old. After that, the killing begins in the late summer and fall of

Nobody believe her that she was the killer. Most of the court room judge was all male. So, they didn’t believe that a woman could be able to kill her own family. She was guilty and wasn’t put in jail without any prove that she killed them.

She may have had her emotions completely take over and her mind may have been telling her body what to do. Being emotionally unstable, makes our brains “foggy” and can often blind us from the real world and concepts of right and wrong. She was obviously not psychologically stable in her life during that

Once Tyria was found and she could not be tied to the killings, police asked her to support them in getting a confession out of Aileen. With Tyria’s assistance, the police was able to receive a confession and charged Aileen with six counts of murder. A year after her arrest, Aileen went to trial for the murder of the first victim, Richard Mallony. Aileen who was the only witness to testify for her own case, was devastated to see Tyria take the stand against her. The only constant in her life and the only person she would later state she killed for, did not even have eye contact with her at court. On January 27th, the jury found Aileen guilty of fist degree murder, and on January 31st, she was sentenced to

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

Background On April 9th, 1974, a young woman at the age of 17 was found in a farmhouse in Blakesburg, Iowa. Her name was Mary Jayne Jones, and she had been sexually assaulted and shot in both her heart and head at close range with a high-powered rifle. Miss Jones was originally from North Carolina, but had moved to Iowa to assist her expectant sister, Mrs. Pat (Jacque) Williams, but decided to stay. At the time, she was working at Henry’s Drive-in restaurant in Ottumwa, Iowa.

Aileen would not act like this for the next 6 months, but then strike quickly again and murder and rob three more men. Those men were David Speers, Charles Carskaddon, and Peter Simms. She either would kill them after they were involved in a transaction, or she would pose as a motorist in distress, and if someone offered to help her, then she would kill them. The police couldnt even identify that it was one killer, and it was thus that they couldnt figure her out at first. The fact that she was a woman, and also that she left the body farther away from the car made it a challenge for

So acting irrational, she got home and she murdered her husband. She hit him on the back of the head with a frying pan, she moved his body to make it look like he fell, and she even put a glass of alcohol in his hand. Mrs. Macey had just got home. She walked in the kitchen, and she grabbed a frying pan.

In the State of Florida, where Wuornos committed her heinous crimes, the penalty for individuals convicted of first-degree murder is as

During her adult life, she would turn to prostitution as a means of survival. Aileen pattern when conducting a murder involved attracting her victims by offering sex in exchange for money. Her history of sexual, physical and emotional abuse directly correlates with her difficult upbringing. Sexual behavior was the only response that Aileen distinguished, so it was the behavior she continuously

It was by no means from a lack of effort, though. Initially her husband, Bazil, was “convinced that somewhere within his bench briefs, memos, summaries, and decisions lay the identity of the man whose act had nearly severed [Geraldine]’s spirit from her body” (Erdrich 45). And although his cases do lead him to suspect the man who committed the atrocity against Geraldine, the tribal justice system is unable to take any action. Before the assualt, Geraldine remembers a sack being drawn over her head and shoulders that “went down so far… [she] couldn’t see” (159), and because of this visual block, as well as her disorientation and panic during the event, she is unable to provide the location in which the rape occurred; this opens her case up to the confusing and often ineffective system of state, federal, and tribal land

She succeeded in killing one of her children, and her subsequent trial became the subject of national controversy particularly as concerned the issue of

Amy also framed one of her previous boyfriends, Tommy O’Hara, for rape just because he cheated on her and for his other minor imperfections. In order to frame Tommy, she gave herself multiple abrasions, not something a typical American woman would do. Additionally, she made sure that he knew her plan and his wrongdoings by tearing into his psyche with an untraceable