Aileen Wuornos Case Study Of Serial Killers

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This paper will be written in the form of a case study analysis and will examine the work of Aileen Wuornos, the majority of the information for this paper will come from ten peer-reviewed articles from the Western Kentucky University library database. This paper will evaluate Aileen Wuornos and the murders she had committed from 1989 to 1990. This case study will be constructed starting with her early life, including her mother and father, the profile of the seven different murders she committed, what type of serial murder she is labeled as, her conviction, her sentencing, and leading up to her death. This paper will also include some of the movies that were inspired by Aileen Wuornos’ life, but for the majority of this case …show more content…

But when they do commit murders, they tend to commit them in a more passive aggressive manner, and it is usually a one time event, either against their husband, or a family member. What causes them to commit homicide in a more violent way? Could it play into how they were raised, or mental illness, which happens to even more rare in serial killers? There could be a multitude of reasons to cause a person to be more violent than any other non-murderous individual. There is a hypothesis that women are more likely to become serial killers if they participate in deviant behaviors throughout their early adolescent years, deviant behavior being, smoking, drinking and high level of sexual activity, could go unnoticed in the bigger picture, their deviant behavior can reflect feelings of low self-esteem (Schurman-Kauflin, 2000, p. …show more content…

Her parents had a violent marriage, her father was arrested multiple times for petty crimes but to avoid prison he enlisted in the army, seven months after her father enlisted Diane gave birth to Aileen. Her mother abandoned Aileen and her brother, when they were four and five, at their maternal grandparents house. Her grandparents eventually adopted Aileen and her brother, changing their last name from Pittman to Wuornos in 1960 (Kelleher & Kelleher, 1998, p. 76). When she turned eleven she had already began to engage in deviant activities, such as prostituting herself for cigarettes, drugs, and food. From the time she was eleven, she claimed that her grandfather sexually abused her, by the time she was fourteen she had already had a baby and by fifteen she dropped out of school and had already become a ward of the state and her brother was put on the streets (Kelleher & Kelleher, 1998 p. 76-77). After her brother died in 1976, Aileen was left with a life insurance policy of no more than 10,000 dollars, but after two months the money was gone and she made her way to Florida by prostitution and hitchhiking (Kelleher & Kelleher 1998, p. 77). During this same time period of her life it was just multiple run-ins with law enforcement, the majority of them were for minor offenses and she solved them with fines adding up to the total of one hundred and five

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