Exploring the Life and Possible Motives of Serial Killer, Aileen Wuornos

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Bodies Piling Up

In early December 1989, while scavenging for scrap metal along a dirt road close to the Volusia County Florida section of Interstate 75, two young men stumbled upon a body with severely decomposed hands wrapped in a rubber backed carpet runner. The victim had been shot 3 times with a 22. Because of the sever decomposition of the victims hands it would take some time to identify the victim as Richard Malloy, an electronic repairman who had gone missing 13 days prior.

Because the murder of Richard Malloy seemed to everyone to be a random criminal act, it came as a surprise to many when another male body, also shot several times was found in a wooded area of Citrus County, Fl not far from where Malloy’s body had been found barely six months prior. The victim was identified as 43 year old David Spears of Sarasota, Fl. His truck was soon discovered on Interstate 75, unlocked with the license plate missing. Around the same time, 30 miles south of Citrus county another naked body was discovered a short distance off of the Pasco county side of Interstate 75. The victims’ entire body was so decomposed that the medical examiners could not obtain any usable prints to use for identification. They did, however, find that the victim, later identified as Charles Carskaddon, had been shot nine times with a 22. During the next six months more male victims, with a total of eight, were killed and disposed of in similar ways, each somewhere around the Interstate 75 corridor.

A Killers Profile Revealed

Captain Steve Binegar of the Marion County Sheriffs Criminal Division had heard of the crimes in Citrus and Pasco counties and noting the similarities in the cases he formed a multi-agency task force with officers from each co...

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In Aileen’s case it was both the reward of obtaining money easily and keeping Tyria happy enough to stay that reinforced her need to kill. According to learning theorists, deviant behavior can be eliminated or modified by taking away the reward value of the behavior, so could this mean that if Tyria had left Aileen when money first became an issue some or even none of these men would have died?

Because of these facts, this writer would have to say that her actions were a combination of both Classical and Learning theories as well as Developmental theories.

References

(Marlee Macleod, n.d.). Aileen Wuornos: Killer Who Preyed on Truck Drivers. Retrieved February 10, 2010 from The Crime Library at www.trutv.com.

Russell, Sue, (n.d.) Lethal Intent. Retrieved February 18, 2010 from www.suerussellwrites.com/lethal.html -

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