7. Aileen Wuornos, aka “The Florida Highway Killer”
We are continuing our list of the 9 most evil female serial killers of all time with Aileen Wuornos, who sure made some racket in Florida (and the world) when in 2002 she became the first American woman to be executed by lethal injection after she got convicted of killing seven men between 1989 and 1990. In 2003 she became immortalized on the big screen in the movie “Monster”, featuring Charlize Theron.
Roughly raised, and abused by her grandfather, she dropped out of high school at age 15, soon after giving up for adoption a baby that had resulted from being raped by one of the pops’ friends. Not long after her grandmother’s death, she was kicked out of the house and began to support herself by working as a prostitute and living in the woods nearby.
At age 20, Aileen who ranks 7th in our list of the 9 most evil female serial killers of all time, hitchhiked to Florida, where she met and married 69-year-old yacht club president Lewis Gratz Fell. The whole thing went south pretty fast, and not even six months later he filed a restraining order against her.
Throughout the next 13 years, she was arrested for armed robbery, car theft, resisting arrest, and obstruction of justice. In 1988 she moved in with her new found lover, Tyria Moore and the following year the murders began. Seven men were shot several times at close range and robbed, their bodies found lying along the highway, sometimes stripped of their clothes. It was through a pawnshop where she had sold items belonging to her victims that they finally caught up with her.
After she had been charged, she claimed all the kills had been in self-defense, and that the men had either raped her or attempted to. She was found guilty for six of the murders and so, sentenced to death by a needle in 1992, although the sentence took ten years to be carried out.
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