Wuornos, then known as Aileen Carol Pittman, was born on 29 February 1956 to teenage parents in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother Diane was just 16 when she gave birth to Wuornos – her second child.

Warning! This article contains mentions of murder, sexual assault, and Aileen Wuornos' real-life violent crimes. Cross includes real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in its fictional narrative ...

Aileen Wuornos, an American serial killer, gave her final message moments before her execution in 2002 in Florida - pledging to return. Wournos smiled as witnesses from the execution room watched ...

Throughout the six episodes, we watched as Ramsey slowly turned Shannon into Aileen Wuornos, with the intent to kill her by lethal injection (the same way Aileen was executed) on Aileen’s ...

Aileen Wuornos carried out a string of notorious and brutal murders along the dark highways of Florida in late 1989 and 1990. A victim of child abuse herself, in adult life Wuornos was a petty ...

Branded “The Damsel of Death” and the “Highway Hooker,” Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men between 1989 and 1990 while she hitchhiked around Florida. After her arrest in 1991, Wuornos ...