The Aileen Wuornos case.
American crime, investigations.
Aileen
Carol Wuornos, ’’Lee’’ was born 29th January 1956
in Rochester in the United States, who become one of Americas worst serial
killers thought the history and was convicted for 7 murders, all of the victims
where men, that she had killed when she was hitchhiking on the road.
She
had a rough and very hard childhood and got kicked out at the age of 14 after
her grandmother’s dead and conflicts with her grandfather.
Maybe
she hadn’t the conditions to be an easy child to handle. She grew up living
with her grandparents, but they couldn’t stand out taking care of her. She had
her own will, and as I said before she wasn’t easy to handle (investigations
which has been made afterwards indicates that she had a borderline disorder),
but that’s not the main reason that she’ll sooner would become an serial
killer.
She
received a bad perspective of violence by that time, and investigators claims
that that’s one of the reasons she became capable to take the life out of seven
men. All of this is hopefully going to appear more clear when I am going to
tell you more specific about her grownup later in this presentation.
How
do we get a perspective of being in this kind of situation that Lee
involuntarily and unknowingly been featured in, or just try to understand? I
mean, a serial killer?
What
if we take an closer look of her childhood, maybe there is some cracks we can
go deeper into which have affected her to become maybe Americas worst serial
killer though present times, or maybe history. I can guaranty that she has the
price for the worst female serial killer.
Let’s
take a deeper look of her childhood, and being raised by her grandparents
without knowledge of her real past.
This
is how everything began.
Her
biological mother Diane Kathleen Tuley, was only 15 years old when she got
married to Lee’s father Leo Dale Pittman. Diane gave birth to a baby boy 1955
and to a girl 1956. The boys name was Keith and the daughters name was Aileen.
Diane
was kind of feckless and at that time incapable to take care of her children,
as probably the most teenagers is in general. Diane had no support from the
kid’s father and gave away her daughter and son to her parents, at that time
Aileen was 4 and Keith was 5 years old.
The
children never got the chance to meet their father, and they where probably
lucky about that.
Leo
Dale Pittman, the children’s father was a psychopathic child molester and
hanged himself in prison in 1969.
Aileen
grew up in a home where violence wasn’t impermissibly. Her grandfather used to
hit her and her brother. Both of the grandparents had conflicts and abused each
other, which also affected the children’s way to act against others, and of
course took after the actions against each other.
She
found out the truth about her past, and the fact that her ’’parents’’ was her
grandparents around the age of 12. It was also at that time things started to
get out of control for Aileen.
Her
grandfather Lauri Wuornos was a very abusive parent, both psychically and
sexually.
Aileen
claims afterwards in jail that they had a sexual contact from an very early
age. All though, there’s no evidence that can tell if it is true.
Her
grandmother Britta Wuornos had strong alcohol problems, which also became very
abusive as well.
Borderline
personality disorder.
Growing
up in a abusive home and being molested regularly do often lead to consequences
like trust issues, unsympathetic, low self-esteem, hesitant to your self and an
uncomplaining sight of violence. If you don’t take care or manage incidents,
which has traumatized or affect your physical health very bad will increase the
chance of developing a mental disorder if it appears several times, or just a
very bad behaviour.
In
this case do the investigators claims that this strong impressions has given
large imprints on Aileen.
After
being investigated could the investigators clarify the fact that she had the
so-called Borderline personality disorder.
Casual
factors that made the disorder break out is only partly known.
But
the fact that it is genetic factors and adverse events during her childhood,
such as physical and sexual abuse contribute the development of the disorder
witch is a common pattern of all of those who have this mental illness.
The
signs of the disorder are very clear and I am going to give a few examples of
them.
Aileen
had unstable impulse control, interpersonal relationships and self-image,
including emotional dysregulation, impulsive aggression, chronic suicidal
tendencies and an self-harm behaviour (parallel to the prostitution) witch is
very obvious signs of the disorder.
This
investigation wasn't done when she was living on the road. It was made after
she got arrested.
Back
to her childhood.
Aileen
and her older brother started to develop their childhood games from one level
to another. They began to exercise sexual actions against each other. And at
that time was Aileen 12 and her brother was at the age of 13.
Some
of my sources can tell that the grandfather also raped her grandmother, but
there’s no evidence that can tell if that is true in the investigation.
I
don’t think she had any support or safety from home and I also think it must
have been very hard to make the rights decisions by your own at that age. She
had no one to rely on, except her brother occasionally.
I
think she really wanted to be confirmed that she was doing something good, or
feel loved. Or get some temporary attention, being seen.
That’s
probably the main reasons she had her very different perspective of sex, when
she didn’t knew better from home. She didn’t respect her self or her body and
started to sell herself by the age of 13 to the boys in the neighbourhood in
exchange for cigarettes, money and so on. It gave her a temporary position in
the troop of youngsters, which lived, in the locus area. But it wasn’t anything
people respected her for, especially not by girls.
She
had been judged by the society already by that young age.
Aileen got pregnant when she was 14 years old, and the baby boy she ave birth to did she adopt away.
As
I said before, she got kicked out of her home just a few moths after returning
from the institution for young mothers. Her grandmother died of liver failure
(a result of heavy drinking) and her grandfather didn’t want her to stay there
any longer.
Time
flies, and Aileen become older. At the age of 20 years old will her brother pass
away and her grandfather will sooner commit suicide. She is not 14 any longer
and lives on the road, hitchhiking is what she’s do for living.
Marriage.
One
day when she was working did a 70-year-old man picked her up. To make an long
story short, Aileen was tired of her lifestyle and they got married (I’ll skip
the details here, to make it more clear can you look at the next page of the
presentation where you can follow a timeline of intrigues in Aileen's life). (NOTICE; By running out of time and crossing the deadline of this presentation did I not complete the timeline of her life, so there is not timeline to follow, I hope you can understand what I have written anyway!)
Sadly,
did they separate after only nine weeks by his volition and claims afterwards that
Aileen could become very abusive when she didn’t get spending money any time
she wanted to have.
She
got kicked out on the streets on more time and had to take care of herself.
Time
flies, and it’s very hard for her to get this connect with other men so she
gave up seeking a new fiancé.
1986,
she met Tyra Moore at Daytona gay bar. They began a volatile and intense
relationship and was inseparable, and became very tight very quickly. She was
the companion that Aileen had dreamed about for her whole life and would do
anything to make her stay with her.
Early
in the relationship do Tyra understand that she is all that Wuornos actually
had, and also wanted to stop being involved into the intrigues and crimes that
was drawn against Aileen, she did everything she could to make Lee stop selling
her body.
The
problem was that it was Aileen who was providing them both, so Tyra became
dependent to her partner.
But
if we ignore the ’’small’’ problems Tyra had and think of another perspective,
how would you smooth jump off a relationship if you knew your partner was
capable to kill? It’s not so easy if you’ve putted yourself into that kind of
situation. Especially not when you partner would do whatever it takes to never
let that happened, or mental sick I don't know.
One
day when Aileen was out hitchhiking a man pulled up, that man was 51-year-old
Richard Malory. She propositions him, he said yes and they agreed to have sex.
They
parked the car in the woods near I95 and route 1 and drank and talked until
dawn.
It
was only then Wuornos pulled out her 22-caliber handgun she had brought with
her and shot Malory 4 times in the chest and back.
After
going thorough her victims pockets and stealing whatever money he had Wuornos
covered his lifeless body with carpets she had found nearby, and drove home in
Malory’s car.
The
first thing she would do when she comes home is to tell Tyra what she had done.
’’
She had told me that she had killed someone and I didn’t believe her, because
of the way she talked about it. And I think she had it in really.’’
The
same day she came home after taking Richard Malory’s life was to pack their
things in his car and move to a new home.
After
that would her way to provide themselves take another level from prostitution,
she will kill 6 another men in the future. And killing will become a lifestyle
for Aileen Wuornos.
The
relationship lasted for about 4 years, and Tyra was drawn into Wuornos cycle of
vandalism, violence and harassment.
Tyra
will play a mayor role in the investigation of the Aileen Wuornos case later.
The
crimes.
Aileen
Carol Wuornos took the life out of 7 men.
Her
first victim was as I wrote about before, Richard Mallory witch was killed in
December 31 1989.
Her
second victim was found in June 1st in 1990, and five days later would the body
of Charles Carskaddan be found.
The
4th of July 1990 found the police a car witch was connected to a man named
Peter Siems. Peters body was never found but Wuornos confessed to the crime
later in a trial.
In
4th August 1990 was Troy Buress found dead.
September
12 1990 was Dick Humphrey found dead, in the 19th November 1990 was the body of
Walter Nino Antonio was found.
My
thought was to write more about the trial and compare the American way of
investigations around murders against our way in Sweden. But I have already crossed
the deadline, and Ithink the subject is way to big when I start reading about
it. I don’t either think it’s a smart thing to introduce a short summery when
it includes so much more a bout that.
So,
I decided to write the most important things to know to understand this case
about Aileen, and how she got convicted.
When
I start reading about the trial do I found out more things about her childhood.
Her
defenders claims that her hard childhood had large imprints of her and that her
mentally instability made her commit this murders. To make it more clear, did
they say that she was so mentally ill because of her childhood so she could’nt
understand what a murder could lead to… BUT without success.
The
jury’s final decision was that she wasn’t that mentally ill to not see the
difference between right and wrong.
Aileen
Carol Wuornos died in 9 October 2002 by a lethal injection.
This source has been used to collect information about the victims, the information I got from this page has a very objective perspective witch was what I was looking for. There is no opinions from a private person involved witch make it more truthful to me. there is a management that stands behind the information, and to view any extra info do you have to register an account witch make me think that the information is very exclusive if you compare to the other sources. The only thing that makes me suspicious is, why do they hide other information? It could be to earn some money by registering users. Why isn't all of the info public? Is there info thats not completely true?
The info I have chosen to bring in in my essay do actually match other sources fortunately.
This source is used for family history.
I got information about her birthday, birthplace, death, cause of death, and her closest family members.
The info I got her matches the information I got from Wikipedia, source number 3, source number 5, source 6, number 8, the documentaries at source number 9 and source number 10.
The source is truthful.
This page has been used to get information about her childhood, the information I got from here match the information I got from source number 9, 4 and Wikipedia. The source is truthful and match to others.
I cant cred this page, It have only been used to get an fast perspective of the subject and about Aileen. I haven't done an meticulous comparison to others, but it do match the information I got from others.
This source has been used to get more specific info about Aileen's mental illness (borderline disorder) , credible source and match source number 7 in the details witch has been mentioned
Match source number 6, credible source.
Been used for the shortly information about orderline disorder, there is no private person thats behind this information witch makes it feel safe to rely on. Especially when there is scientist that has written this text.
Overview of the case, the source is credible.
- no private person there is a company behind the info. I do not cred any specific information, but if ypu want to read more about the case very fast to get an fast perspective do I recommend this page.
This is an doucumentary about Aileen meeting Tyra Moore, I choose to trust on this information because otherwise if it is false it would be propaganda.
CapitalPunishment one more time, been used to get facts about the trial.
credible source.
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