Aileen Wuornos

Biography

Aileen Wuornos was an American serial killer born on February 29, 1956, in Rochester, Michigan. Between 1989 and 1990, she killed seven men while working as a prostitute along Florida highways, claiming self-defense after they allegedly raped or attempted to rape her. She spent over ten years on death row before being executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002, for six of the murders.