Aileen Wuornos

Birthday: February 29th, 1956 Date of Death: October 9th, 2002 Place of Birth: Rochester, Michigan, USA

Aileen Carol Wuornos was an American serial killer who killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. Wuornos claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her while she was working as a prostitute, and that all of the killings were committed in self-defense. She was convicted and sentenced to death for six of the murders and was executed by the State of Florida by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.