Aileen Wournos
Aileen Carol Wuornos is one of the most infamous female serial killers in American history. Between 1989 and 1990, Wuornos murdered seven men in Florida while working as a prostitute along the state's highways. Her case became widely known not only because of the number of victims, but also because of her troubled childhood, history of abuse and abandonment, prostitution, unstable relationships, substance abuse, and serious psychological problems. Wuornos' case has also generated considerable debate over whether she killed primarily for money, whether some of her murders were acts of self-defense, and how much her mental illness and traumatic childhood contributed to her violent behavior. Although she is sometimes described as having schizophrenia, this is inaccurate. Her father, Leo Pittman, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, while Wuornos herself was diagnosed primarily with borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder and was later described as experiencing significant paranoid and delusional symptoms.
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