![]() ![]() Despite this, Wuornos was never given a re-trial. In November of the same year, Dateline NBC reporter Michele Gillens uncovered that Mallory had served 10 years for violent rape in another state. She was convicted for this first murder in January 1992 with help from Moore's testimony. Wuornos cited self defense for Mallory's murder, maintaining that he had attempted to rape her. ![]() Wuornos was eventually identified when she and her girlfriend Tyria Moore had an accident while driving a victim's car. Over the next two years, five subsequent victims were found one other is still missing. She was arrested multiple times throughout the 1970s and 1980s for crimes including drunk driving and shoplifting, as well as prostitution.Ī storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida, named Richard Mallory took a ride with Wuornos on November 30, 1989, and became her first victim. After Britta died later that year (officially of liver failure, although Wuornos' mother later accused Lauri of killing her), Wuornos ran away from home and turned to prostitution, traveling around the country and supporting herself with sex up until her arrest for murder years later. Wuornos became pregnant at age fourteen (she gave the baby up for adoption), which supported her claim of early sexual activities. She also claimed to have had sex with multiple partners, including her brother, at a young age. Wuornos later said that Lauri physically and sexually abused her as a child, that Britta was an abusive alcoholic, and that they both claimed to be her actual parents until she was twelve. ![]() Her mother abandoned her and her brother, Keith, in 1960, leaving them in the care of their Finnish-born grandparents, Lauri and Britta Wuornos. Her father, a psychopathic child molester, left her mother before Aileen was born, and later committed suicide in prison when she was 13 (1969). Born in Rochester, Michigan, Wuornos had what was by most accounts a traumatic childhood. ![]()
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