Aileen Wuornos: A Monster in Florida's Highways.

A Female Serial killer who was Targeting Men

Ana Coughlin
The Crime Center

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Millions of people love to vacation in the Sunshine State, but the home of Disney World From 1989 to 1990 had a serial killer on the loose. When you think of a serial killer, you think of a man killing people. Aileen Carol Wuornos, born Pittman, also known as Lee, the FBI labeled her the first female serial killer in the United States. She murdered seven men. Wuornos was Florida's worst nightmare.

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From 1989–to 1990, while working as a prostitute along Florida's highways, she killed seven men while hitchhiking the roads looking for Johns. The murder victims had several things in common: They were Middle-aged white men, the front seat was moved to the front, driving alone, robbed, and the killer(s) took the victim's cars after the murders and shot them multiple times with a .22 caliber. Wuornos always maintained the men raped or tried to rape her. And she killed them in self-defense. But were the seven homicides self-defense or cold-blooded murder?

The Feminine Touch

On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Moore were involved in an accident, and a witness saw them abandoning Peter Siem's car, one of the victims. Now the authorities were looking for two females. The press called the two women Angels of Death. The…

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Ana Coughlin
The Crime Center

Loves the Beach. Loves to Read. Writing is not a hobby, but a passion.