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Nickname:	Lee
Known for:	Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, Biography
Birth name:	Aileen Carol Pittman
Birthday:	29 February 1956, Rochester, Michigan, USA

Her case spawned 2 movies, 3 books, an opera and a "True Crime" comic book pairing Wuornos with mobster John Gotti. Maternal grandparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos adopt Aileen and her brother, Keith, after they are abandoned by their mother. (18 March 1960). Considered America's first female serial killer. Convicted of murdering seven men in Florida from 1990-92, and after receiving six death sentences, was executed (9 October 2002) Despite prostituting herself to men most of her life, she had a female lover, Tyria Moore, was thought to be involved in her serial killings. Was adopted by Arlene Pralle, a 44-year-old "born-again Christian" and her husband (November 22, 1991) Aileen Wuornos was the tenth woman in the U.S. to be executed since the re-introduction of the death penalty to the U.S. in 1976, and the second woman in Florida to be executed. The biker bar in Port Orange, Florida where Wuornos was arrested on 9 January 1991 has become a tourist spot, with the slogan: "Cold Beer and Killer Women." Wuornos became pregnant at 14 and was sent to a home for unwed mothers. She gave birth to a baby boy on 23 March 1971. The child was adopted. During her career as a prostitute, she claimed to have had sex with 250,000 men. Her ancestry was Finnish. Parents' names were Diane Wuornos and Leo Dale Pittman. They divorced a couple of months before she was born. Her father died in prison when she was just 13 years old. After her execution, she was cremated and her ashes were taken to her native Michigan, and spread around a tree. Requested that Natalie Merchant's song "Carnival" be played at her funeral.

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