Aileen Carol Wuornos left home that November morning, as she always did, with the .22 tucked snugly into her big, brown purse. She had kept a gun with her for as long as she had been alone, and tha… ...

After her arrest in 1991, Aileen Wuornos quickly gained notoriety as “The Damsel of Death” and “Highway Hooker” for murdering seven men as she hitchhiked through Florida roadways as a sex worker. In ...

In “Snapped Notorious: Aileen Wuornos," Oxygen dives deep into the deadly sex worker’s life, which was marred by abuse and abandonment. Aileen Carol Pittman was born on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, ...

Few performances in cinema history have been as captivating as Charlize Therons portrayal of real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster. The 2003 Patty Jenkins-directed film earned Theron ...

The real Aileen Wuornos was executed through a lethal injection on October 9, 2002, which is exactly what the Fanboy Killer, Ed Ramsey, attempts to do to Shannon in Cross before Alex Cross stops him.

Wuornos, then known as Aileen Carol Pittman, was born on 29 February 1956 to teenage parents in Rochester, Michigan. Her mother Diane was just 16 when she gave birth to Wuornos – her second child.