Aileen Wuoornos Case Study

Criminal Profile of Aileen Wuornos

Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer , and thief between the years 1989 and 1990. She killed seven men as a prostitute and hitchhiker on I 95 through Florida. The men she killed were all ages of 40-65, all white males. She only killed men due to her hatred of them originating in her early childhood sexual abuse by her father / grandfather. Aileen began life as a prostitute at only the age of 11, asking for cigarettes and spare change for sexual deeds. It was also acknowledged that she had sexual relations with her brother , Keith, at a young age. At the age of 13 Aileen got pregnant , and was sent away to a girls home by her grandparents ( adoptive parents Lauri and Britta Wuornos ) for her to give birth and

was always to shoot the men multiple times and strip them naked , then discard of their body in an area somewhat hidden. Aileen said herself though, she had done some pretty sloppy work. After killing the men she would always rob the vehicles and sometimes steal them. I believe Aileen was so obsessed with stripping the men nude, and stealing from them, and shooting them had a significant amount to do with the fact that her grandfather and father abused her, so she took it out on men that looked like father's, or grandfather's, and had the appearance of her Grandpa. She humiliated the men because men had always humiliated her, Aileen stripped for them for money , food , drugs, or a place to sleep; therefore Aileen stripped them from their clothes and took what they had to set an example.

Resisting Detection

In order to stop police from finding out it was her, Aileen would immediately pawn or sell items she stole from the men, besides driving their cars for a couple days before discarding it in a nearby ditch or on the side of the highway. Aileen was definitely not a professional when it came to murder and disposing of the evidence, she left her prints and her DNA and didn't really have a high intelligence. The only cleanup she ever performed was wiping things down with Windex inside vehicles, and keeping it from looking like somebody was murdered in the car or around it. Wuornos committed unorganized sexual homicides.