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This Child Grew Up To Be One Of The Most Evil People In The World
The innocent-looking girl in this picture grew up to be one of the most evil female serial killers in the world.
Looking at the picture of this sweet little girl, it’s hard to imagine the horrors which lay ahead in her life.
Tragically, the ordinary life she may have led was set on a violent and dangerous path from a very young age.
She went on to be one of the most ‘evil’ people in the world, and many question whether that evil was as a result of nature or nurute.
A childhood defined by trauma and abuse
Born in 1956 in Rochester, Michigan, the young girl faced severe turmoil from her earliest years.
At just four years old, she and her brother were abandoned by their mother.
This devastating abandonment coincided almost perfectly with her father receiving a life sentence in prison for the kidnapping and rape of a seven-year-old girl.
He would later die by suicide behind bars.
Left in the custody of their maternal grandparents, the children’s situation only grew more tragic.
The girl later alleged that her grandmother struggled with alcoholism, and that her grandfather subjected her to physical and s**ual abuse.
Adding to this heartbreaking upbringing, she became pregnant at age 14 following a s**ual assault, with some reports suggesting her own brother may have been the father.
After giving birth to a baby boy, she placed him for adoption in hopes of giving him a better life. Following her grandmother’s death, the teenager dropped out of school and turned to s** work to survive.
From petty offenses to a cross-country spiral
Throughout the 1970s, her run-ins with the law escalated, though nobody could have predicted the violence that would follow.
Her early arrests spanned disorderly conduct, drunk driving, assault, shoplifting, and pr**titution. Amid this legal trouble, tragedy struck again in 1976 when her brother passed away, followed by her grandfather’s suicide.
Eventually, she hitchhiked down to Florida, where her criminal activity continued, resulting in a prison sentence for armed robbery in 1982.
Grappling with severe mental health issues rooted in her deeply traumatic past, she reportedly attempted suicide six times between the ages of 14 and 22.
The fatal encounter that triggered a killing spree
While working as a s** worker in Florida, she took a life for the first time.
Her first victim was Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old electronics shop owner. His body was discovered in a wooded area outside Daytona Beach, two weeks after she had shot him three times.
Initially, she stated that an argument over money and an attempted assault in the secluded area escalated into a fight.
She later testified that Mallory had tried to abuse her without paying, asserting that she shot him in self-defense after he allegedly raped, beat, and sodomized her.
The chilling confessions and execution of a serial killer
Following that first homicide, she confessed to taking the lives of seven more men over a one-year span, from December 1989 to November 1990.
Her victims were all middle-aged or older white men, including a construction worker, a truck driver, a rodeo worker, and a retired police chief, among others.
In a series of recorded phone calls, she admitted to the slayings but consistently maintained that the men had tried to sexually assault her, forcing her to shoot them in self-defense.
She was ultimately charged with first-degree murder for six of the deaths; she was not charged in one instance because investigators could not locate the victim’s body despite her confession.
After being handed six death sentences, Aileen Wuornos, who earned the nickname ‘Damsel of Death,’ was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
To this day, debate continues over whether she was inherently ‘evil,’ or a product of an incredibly harrowing environment and tragic life circumstances.
Her story remains widely known today as the subject of the Netflix documentary, Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers.
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