Inside Aileen Wuornos' Harrowing Childhood: How the Serial Killer's Allegedly Abusive Family Abandoned Her As a Teen

Inside Aileen Wuornos' Harrowing Childhood: How the Serial Killer's Allegedly Abusive Family Abandoned Her As a Teen

Diane Wuornos and Leo Pittman had two children, Keith Wuornos and Aileen Wuornos World History Archive via Alamy ; Florida DOC/Getty Aileen Wuornos as a child ; Aileen Wuornos' mugshot.NEED TO KNOWDiane Wuornos and Leo Pittman shared two children: Keith Wuornos and Aileen Carol Wuornos Aileen never met her father, who was convicted of raping a child in 1967 After her mother abandoned her when she was 4 years old, she and Keith were raised by the…

Serial killer Aileen Wuornos confessed to protect the woman she loved, but there's a tragic irony to her story

Aileen Wuornos was a prostitute who worked in Daytona Beach, Florida. Between 1989 and 1990, she killed seven men on Florida’s highways. She was called the “queen of the serial killers” because female serial killers are very rare. A court found her guilty and gave her the death penalty. She was executed in 2002. Netflix now has a new documentary about her called Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers. The film shows an old interview with Wuornos th…