To describe Aileen Wuornos' jump in the beginning as an unfortunate start is really an understatement. It was a terrible jump from the period she was born February 29, 1956 as Aileen Carol Pittman. One of the decent things in her early beginning, oddly, was that her birth dad, Leo Dale Pittman, never grew to understand her. Pittman was a very disturbed child molester who hanged himself while incarcerated in 1969. Aileen’s mother, Diane Wuornos, married Pittman when she was at the age of only 15 and bore him two children in Rochester, Michigan. Aileen had an older sibling by the name of Keith, Keith was born in 1955. Diane separated Pittman fewer than two years into the marriage, a few months earlier Aileen was born. Diane was scared of Pittman and with respectable reasons. Diane later found the duties of single mother unbearable. In 1960 she left behind Aileen and her brother Keith, who were then accepted by their maternal grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos in 1960. Aileen was expecting at the age of only 14 and sent away to a mothers' home-based. Aileen had a baby boy, who was adopted in 1971. Luckily for her son, Aileen did not end up raising him. However, not long after, Aileen left school, left home and started hitching rides and prostitution. In the years coming, Keith passed on from throat cancer at the age of 21, Lauri committed suicide, and Aileen ran towards Florida. Aileen was 20, she was hitching rides when a well-off sixty-nine year old yacht club chairman named Lewis Fell stop to pick her up. He fell in love with her rapidly. When they married in 1976 the bulletin was actually published in the society section. This was an actual blow of blessing for her, but she was too tough and damaging to recognize when she had... ... middle of paper ... ... truth. Once the prosecutor’s cross- examined Aileen her lies and conflicts she became angry. The jury returned only two hours later with a first degree murder verdict. Aileen did not stand trial again. Om March 1992 Aileen plead no contest to Dick’s, Troy and Spears murders. She received three more death sentences. In June, 1992 she admitted to the murder of Charles Carskaddon, and in November, she was given her fifth death sentence. February of 1993, she was put to die after admitting to the murder of Walter Gino Antonio. No charges were brought for the killing of Peter Siems, as his body was never discovered. For a long time, Aileen said she killed the men for raping her. Later, she changed her mind. Her life story produced two movies, some books and the opera "Wournos," by Carla Lucero. Aileen gave her final media meeting just before her execution.
Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan; at a young age she and her brother, Keith, were raised by their grandparents, after her parents divorced just months before Aileen was born. Her father, a career criminal, was later convicted of kidnapping and raping a seven year old girl and eventually hung himself in his prison cell. Wuornos grandparents drank heavily and parented with strict authority. Wuornos would later say that she was sexually abused by her grandfather and had sexual relations with her brother. She became pregnant at the age of 14, and the baby was given up for adoption, and was forced out of her home and lived in the woods. She was arrested during the mid 1970s for charges related to assault and disorderly
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina to Linda and Harry Vaughan. She was born the third child in the Vaughan family, with two older brothers. Linda Vaughan divorced Harry when Susan turned 7, and five weeks later Harry committed suicide at 37 (Montaldo). Within weeks of Linda and Harry’s divorce, Linda got remarried to Beverly (Bev) Russell, a local successful businessman. Linda and the children moved from their home into Bev’s, a larger house located in an exclusive subdivision in Union, South Carolina. Susan grew to be a well-liked teenager, and even became president of her Junior Civitan Club and Friendliest Female in her senior year (Montaldo). Everyone liked her, and she put on a great show at school. But after the last bell rang, she had to look forward to seeing Bev at home, something she feared above anything else. Bev had taken to molesting Susan when she turned sixteen, and it was not long afterward that she sought help with the local Department of Social Services (Wiki). The Department of Social services did little to help Susan, only making Bev attend a few counseling sessions (Wiki). When he returned home, he chastised Susan heavily for “airing their dirty laundry in public” and continued with the molestation (Montaldo). I believe thi...
At least 130 people per year are exonerated. They spend time in jail for a crime they did not commit yet they still have to serve the punishment. The night of February 5, 1985, 68 year old Helen Wilson was sexually assaulted and killed in her apartment in Beatrice, Nebraska. Her body was found in the apartment the next morning by her sister, Wilson appeared to be sexually assaulted, stabbed, and suffocated to death. The years that followed the homicide were filled with turmoil over whom to convict with the crime and who actually commited the crime.
Caroline was born into a wealthy family in Massachusetts, the daughter of a psychoanalyst and his self-contained painter-wife. She reflects in her memoir that being in her friends’ houses during her school years, she noted that her family was different from the others: they never hug each other,
Working as a teacher serving at-risk four-year-old children, approximately six of her eighteen students lived in foster care. The environment introduced Kathy to the impact of domestic violence, drugs, and family instability on a developing child. Her family lineage had a history of social service and she found herself concerned with the wellbeing of one little girl. Angelica, a foster child in Kathy’s class soon to be displaced again was born the daughter of a drug addict. She had been labeled a troublemaker, yet the Harrisons took the thirty-hour training for foster and adoptive care and brought her home to adopt. Within six months, the family would also adopted Angie’s sister Neddy. This is when the Harrison family dynamic drastically changes and Kathy begins a journey with over a hundred foster children passing through her home seeking refuge.
She was charged on several different accounts of committing criminal activities that mostly involved assault. Her behaviour continued to deteriorate even when she was married. Upon getting married to Fell, she ended up hitting him with a cane (Attorney Depot, 15 January 2013). The fact that she agreed to marry an older person is an indication of the psychological torment that she endured. The torture impaired her judgement to the point of believing that dating older men was a sane activity. Aileen was charged on the account of murder. According to the jury, she had committed seven murders. In her defence, she pointed out that most of them had tried to rape her while she as working as a
For so long she has been around what she saw as the destination for her life, which was success and happiness, in the lifelong family friends the Lowells. She assumed they were just given this life without ever thinking they had to work as hard as she did to get there, consequently envy and resentment ensued. The resentment started with the whole family and then got more intense and personal when it came to the daughter of the Lowells, Parker, someone Andrea could identify with on a personal level. This story illustrated for us the unseen factors and repercussions that too much ambition to be accepted by anyone can have one's long lasting development into their own person. This journey to prove who you are to others can lead to intense emotions and motives that aren’t normal yours and can cause you to lose sight of the very person you’re trying to prove that you
Jasmine Beckford’s case is the oldest out of the three; in 1984 Jasmine died as a result of long-term abuse aged 4. In 1981 her and her younger sister suffered serious injuries and were paced with foster carers for six months. After this they were allowed back home with their mother on a trial basis as social services were meant to support them. During the last ten months of Jasmine’s life she was only seen once by social workers (Corby, 2006).
She claimed self defense stating in the documentary duing a court order, “first female serial killer is not what I am and I am not even near it and my confessions prove it” (CITE). From the learning theory comes a term deemed “Neutralization”. Neutralization is an attempt by the offender to buffer the severity of their actions. It’s a learned behavior and thus is categorized under the learning theory which has been adopted via observation of their surroundings. This neutralization is an attempt to redistribute blame away from the offender. While all claims of rape Aileen mentioned are valid ( we can never know for sure because her victims are dead) a pattern of blame starts to form through her dialogue. According to the FBI, “The term ‘serial killings’ means a series of three or more killings, not less than one of which was committed within the United States, having common characteristics such as to suggest the reasonable possibility that the crimes were committed by the same actor or actors.” (CITE). By definition of the word, Aileen was in fact a serial killer. However, while in the end admitting to the crimes, Aileen held strong to the idea that she was in fact not a serial killer, “Lee Wuornos insists she is not a serial killer and did not stalk her victims or plan her crimes” (DOCUMENTARY CITE). We see Aileen used neutralization in 2 main forms,
For the sake of brevity and avoiding confusion: I will refer to the main character (The Unmarried Mother) as “TUM” and with female pronouns, the occurrence of TUM stealing the baby and giving it to the orphanage as “Event X”, and the period of time where TUM grew up in the orphanage as “Event Y”.
Aileen Wuornos Carol born on the 29th of February 1956 was one of the most famous serial killers of all times. Regarded as the first female serial killer in the United States, Aileen depicts the life of thousands of other people around the world whose lives were either changed or altered by their biological, environmental and developmental factors that made them to commit unimaginable crimes. This study analyzes the life of Aileen beginning with the crimes she committed. In addition, the study will examine the biological, developmental and environmental factors that led to the crimes she committed. Theories that could be applied to her actions including factors such as psychopathy will also be analyzed together with how they may have led to her crimes. In conclusion, the court
...s rearrested by West German authorities that held a criminal trial in the German legal system and found her guilty in 1951. On September 1st, 1967, Ilse committed suicide by hanging herself with her bed sheets while serving another life sentence in a German woman’s prison.
Amy was born in Enfield, London, in England September 14, 1983. She was raised into a culturally jewish family, but they didn’t consider themselves religious. Amy’s mother was Janis Winehouse, she was a pharmacist. Her father was Mitchell Winehouse. He was a part-time taxi driver. Amy also had an older sibling, Alex. He helped his mother around the house with Amy, at the young age of only four. Growing up in Southgate was rough for Amy and Alex. Amy’s uncles who were professional jazz musicians, she wanted to follow in their footsteps.
At the end of all Iago's evil intentions are the one that prevails over everything. However, with Iago's wishes coming on top; this meant that many people had to pay the ultimate price.Othello's jealousy got the best o f him and, he ended up killing the love of his life, Desdemona. Furthermore, after Othello killed Desdemona in their bedroom; Emilia, Desdemona's maid and Iago's wife, went to the Moor's bedroom and found Desdemona death. Moreover, Emilia asked Othello, the reason to why he did this; Othello gave her the reason why. However, Emilia told Othello that her husband, Iago, was a liar; that this whole time Iago played him. After knowing that Emilia told Othello the truth, Iago killed her next to Desdemona. Afterwords, Othello found
On the exterior Nicole Divers childhood fits all the requirements of a perfect upbringing as well, however, like the American Dream, it too was imperfect. Nicole was born into an affluent family and she was a perfectly normal, bright, happy child (p.126). However, after the death of Nicoles mother, her father began to have an incestuous relationship with her. Nicole maintained the appearance of being normal, but she eventually began to suffer from mental illness because of her past abuse. She had a fit or something-the things she said got crazier and crazier(p.127). Almost always about men going to attack her, men she knew or men on the street anybody (p.127). Nicole was diagnosed as having a Divided Personality(p.128) and she underwent many years of therapy to rehabilitate her from her past sexual abuse. Both Nicole and Daisys childhood have the outward appearance of being perfect, however only Daisys childhood truly was.