Name: Aileen Carol Wuornos- 

Pittman 

DoB:  February 29, 1956
DoD:  October 9, 2002
Years Active: 1989–90
Mother: Diane Wuornos
Father: Leo Dale Pittman
Brother: Keith
Grandparents: Lauri and Britta Wuornos
Childhood: She never met her father who was convicted of sexually assaulting children and subsequently committed suicide in prison. Her mother abandoned her and her brother when they were you, leaving them to Aileen's maternal grandparents. Her grandmother was alcoholic and her grandfather was violent and sexually abusive. At 11, she began engaging in sexual activities at school in exchange for food, drugs, and cigarettes. She also had sexual relations with her brother during this time. She became pregnant at 14 after being raped by an accomplice of her grandfather and gave the child up for adoption. Soon after the adoption and directly after the death of her grandfather, Aileen dropped out of school and became a prostitute. She also began living in the woods.
Education: She dropped out of high school at age 15.
Typical Killer: Aileen does not necessarily represent the typical serial killer profile: She was ~33 at the time of her first murder, she is a female killer and, she had a low IQ of 81. She also came from an unstable home and grew up in the absence of a nurturing environment.
Common characteristics of victims: older men.
The Murders: While she was working as a prostitute, the victims would attempt to pick her up in their cars, where she would kill them in what she claimed was "self-defense".
She would shoot them to death with multiple shots, typically to the head and torso.
Death Toll: 7 men
Unstable: Aileen was declared to be unstable at her trial after psychiatrists diagnosed her with  borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Disorganized: Based of the charts viewed in the Serial Killers PPT, Aileen seems to be a disorganized killer. 

- disregard for wishes of relative
-reluctance revive patients 

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- charged on september 7, 1998 (15 counts of murder and 1 forgery)
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characteristics:
-reputation of arrogance 
-enjoyed exercising control over life and death
- lack of compassion




-studied at leeds university
- mother of domineering and taught him to feel superior over others
-he had an isolated childhood with little friends

-met his wife at 19 (she was 17) and they married and she got pregnant 5 months later

Born: February 29, 1960, El Paso, TX

Died: June 7, 2013, Marin General Hospital, Kentfield, CA

Height: 6′ 1″

Spouse: Doreen Lioy (m. 1996–2013)

Span of crimes: April 10, 1984 – August 24, 1985

Victims: 14 

Born: May 16, 1861, Gilmanton, NH

Died: May 7, 1896, Moyamensing Prison 

Victims: 9 confirmed, 27 confessed

Spouse: Georgiana Yoke (m. 1894–1896), Myrta Z. Belknap (m. 1887–1896), Clara A. Lovering (m. 1878–1896)

Children: Robert Lovering Mudgett, Lucy Theodate Holmes 

would tell people to fake their own death but he would actually kill them
confessed to 28 murders 
known to have killed 200
he was hung
called his house a castle it had secret doors and hallways and traps
he would rent out rooms in his castle to young woman and they would never return out of the house
sold the skeletons of the dead body for medical persons

Born: March 9, 1945 (age 74 years), Pittsburg, KS

Full name: Dennis Lynn Rader

Spouse: Paula Dietz (m. 1971–2005)

Victims: 10 

BTK stood for Bind, Torture, and Kill

Dennis Lynn Rader was born on March 9, 1945, in Pittsburg, Kansas, and grew up in Wichita. The oldest of four sons, he enjoyed a seemingly normal childhood, reportedly masking such disturbing behavior as hanging stray animals.

On January 15, 1974, Rader strangled to death four members of the Otero family in their Wichita home—parents Joseph and Julie, and two of their children, Josephine and Joseph Jr.—before leaving with a watch and a radio. Strangulation and souvenir-taking would become part of his pattern of behavior. He also left semen at the scene and later said that he derived sexual pleasure from killing. 

Rader struck again a few months later: On April 4, 1974, he waited in the apartment of a young woman named Kathryn Bright, before stabbing and strangling her when she returned home. Rader also twice shot her brother, Kevin, though he survived. Kevin later described Rader as "an average-sized guy, bushy mustache, 'psychotic' eyes."

Reportedly an attentive husband, he and his wife had a son in 1975 and a daughter in 1978. The next year, Rader graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in administration of justice. Still, he continued to taunt authorities and appeared to be poised to strike again.


    

“I just liked to kill, I wanted to kill” 

 

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