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Eileen Wuornos, originally Aileen Carol Pittman, was born on the 29th of February, 1956. She had a devastating childhood beginning from
the time she was born, and this is something that is emphasized when
considering it in light of the fact that by 1960, her mother abandoned
her as well as her elder brother after divorcing her husband; Diane
Wuornos found the responsibilities demanded by single motherhood to be
way beyond her capabilities. The two kids resultantly wound up being
taken in by their maternal grandparents, where the alcoholism, abuse
and nonchalance eventually led her to adopt a life of crime,
prostitution and drugs (Reynolds, 2004).
Beginning on the first day of the December of 1989, Eileen Wuornos'
killing spree left around seven men murdered in its wake. One of the
most significantly disturbing features of the Eileen Wuornos case, as
becomes increasingly clear when considered in light of the article in
the Journal of Behavioral Sciences and the Law, was the utter lack of
motivation that was made apparent upon the investigation of her crimes.
For instance, the most significant feature in concern to her
criminality was that, unlike the typical prevalence of female offenders
prosecuted for murder, none of the murders she committed seemed to have
been undertaken with a sense of preplanning. The only apparent
indication of preplanning, moreover, was that all of her victims
appeared to be markedly older than her in addition to having items
worth at least some fortune.
Indeed, while this is something that tends to be exemplified even
more certainly when considering that all of her victims were absolute
strangers to her; the unconventionality of it is accentuated ten-fold
when considering that female serial killers/murderers have typically
been known to commit carefully preplanned crimes with revenge being the
most common intent. In the case of Wuornos, however, it appears that
the uncharacteristically instable and volatile state of her
developmental/childhood phase (s) led her to become and individual
wielding complete animosity towards men and even humans in general
(Russell, 2002).
When she was arrested and convicted, moreover, she expressed no
sympathy and/or guild in regard to the fact that she had murdered
around seven men who didn’t even know her. Although she initially
stalled, Wuornos finally confessed to the killings of Mallory, Spears,
Carskaddon, Seims, Burress, Humphreys and Antonio by the 16th of
January in 1991.However, she also went on to state that the prime
reasons due to which they all died was that they either been trying to
rape her; had been refusing to pay for the sex she had offered; or that
they were simply all older men who did not have anyone, apparently
leading her to conclude, subsequently, that it was of no consequence to
relieve them of their respective lives. She always gave the same story
in regard to each of her victims; they were always trying to harm her
in some way.
She managed to abstractly justify her killings, at least to herself,
by stating that if she had not murdered these men they would have
either raped her or some other woman. She was executed in the October
of 2002 via the administering of the lethal injection, a demise that
she herself chose, and wholeheartedly too (Journal of Behavioral
Sciences and the Law, 2004). It would be conclusively relevant to
acknowledge that while Wuornos was the third woman to be executed in
the history of Florida, she was uncharacteristically voluntary about
her sentence, actually proceeding to lobby for her execution when she
became aware of the mass national contentions that were cooking upon
the pretext of her execution.
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