Aileen Wuornos Part1. While in prison from 1993 to 2002, Wuornos defense team works to overturn her death sentences. Wuornos then asks to be put to death. "[51] While her attorneys argued that she was not mentally competent to make such a request, Wuornos insisted that she knew what she was doing, and a court-appointed panel of psychiatrists agreed. . She was gone for three weeks before being captured and sent back to the school. [31] On July 4, 1987, Daytona Beach police detained Wuornos and Moore at a bar for questioning regarding an incident in which they were accused of assault and battery with a beer bottle. Wuornos was born as Aileen Carol Pittman on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Her legs and lungs were burning but she knew that she needed to get a mile or two away before she could let up. I think she had a lot of awful encounters on the roads. Jacob Shelton. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again. In her early teens she spent time at a home for unwed mothers and then dropped out of school and turned to prostitution. it was a long walk to get to ya, mind if I sit down here with ya and catch my breath?. Son of Jacob August Wuornos and Anna Kaisa Juhontytr Wuornos Husband of Aileen Britta Wuornos Father of Diane Kathleen Pittman-Pratt-Tuley (Wuornos); Private; . On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Tyria Moore abandoned victim Peter Siems' car after they were involved in an accident. A few days after Spears body was discovered, the body of Charles Carskaddon, 40, was discovered in Pasco County. She was declared a ward of the state until age 18. "I killed those men," she wrote, "robbed them as cold as ice. When she was four, her and her brother were sent to live with their grandparents. Aileen never got to meet her father, because he was in prison. The young Wuornos experienced horrifying tumult during her childhood: Her father killed himself while serving prison time for child molestation, while her mother abandoned Wuornos and her older brother Keith, leaving them to be raised by their grandparents. [75] It stars Peyton List as Wuornos. Authorities were eventually able to track down Wuornos (who had used various aliases) and Moore from fingerprints and palm prints left in the crashed vehicle of another missing man, Peter Siems. On September 12, 1990, his body was found in Marion County, Florida. Aileen was given $10,000 from her sibling's life insurance. [CDATA[// >