3. Aileen Wuornos
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Wuornos is one of a few female serial killers. She was convicted of killing seven men, claiming that all of her victims tried to sexually assault her. Like many serial killers, Aileen Wuornos was not without significant childhood troubles. She never met her father, since he was incarcerated when she was born. He later hung himself in prison. Wuornos’ mother abandoned her and her brother when Aileen was four years old, leaving the children to live with their maternal grandparents. She claimed that she was sexually assaulted by her grandfather, and when Aileen was fourteen, she became pregnant due to being sexually assaulted by a friend of her grandfather’s. The following year, Wuornos’ father threw her out of the house, and she became a prostitute. She likely targeted male victims due to her troubled childhood. Her last words indicate that she was mentally troubled for quite some time: “I’d just like to say that I’m sailing with the rock, and I’ll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus, June 6th. Like the movie, big mother ship and all. I’ll be back.” Wuornos died by lethal injection in 2002. She was 46.
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