THE DEATH OF DEATH

June 1, 1990 The body of a naked man with six 22-caliber shots was identified as
David Spears, heavy machinery operator. Six days later they found the naked
corpse of another man a few kilometers away. We had a high degree of
decomposition and nine bullet impacts of the same weapon. He visited Charles
Carskaddon, disappeared on May 31, when he was visiting his fiancee in Tampa.
On July 4, the gray Pontiac of Peter Siems, a 65-year-old Christian missionary was
found with blood traces. The owner never showed up, but later Wuorno would
confess his crime.
On August 4, a family while on a picnic found Troy Burress's body. He was so
broken that his wife could only identify his ring. He had two 22-caliber shots. The
next victim was Dick Humphey, a retired cop who on the previous day, on
September 11, had celebrated his 35th wedding anniversary. He was dressed and
had seven shots. On November 19, the body of truck driver Walter Gino Antonio
was found naked with three shots in the back.
"It is very possible that the victims who were dressed were only good Samaritans
who offered to take her, although we will never prove it," journalist Sue Russell,
author of the Lethal Intent book and who interviewed Wuorno several times, told
SEMANA. Russell states that in addition to the 22 gauge, his other weapon was a
glass of glass cleaner to erase fingerprints.
Aileen Wuorno is not known because she is known as 'The Maiden of Death'. She
was a road prostitute whose clients used to be truck drivers whom she offered to
accompany them during the trip. But by decreasing its appeal, it will resort to new
methods to get money. That was when he started killing. He stood at the edge of
the highway and asked any driver to take it. Since her appearance was not that of
a prostitute, but that she looked deranged, there was no lack of who innocently
offered to help her. To achieve his goal, that his car was damaged and showed a
photo with two children, ensuring that they were his children. Once in the car he
offered his sexual services.
His murderous rage began in November 1989 when he unloaded three shots of his
22-caliber weapon on Richard Mallory, a 51-year-old merchant. Authorities found
his Cadillac on the outskirts of Daytona. Inside was an empty wallet, half a bottle of
vodka and a broken condom packet. On December 13, two young men found in a
forest the decomposed body wrapped in a mat.
The tragic story of Aileen Carol Wuorno began in childhood. Her mother
abandoned her along with her older brother, Keith, when she was only 2 years old.
He did not know his father because he committed suicide in the prison where he
was about to rape a 7-year-old girl. Their maternal grandparents raised them and
only at age 12 Aileen knew the truth about their kinship. Life with them was not the
best. She said her grandfather was an alcoholic and mistreated her, even said he
had raped her.
From the age of 11, Aileen sold her body to the children in her neighborhood in
exchange for cigarettes and coins. At age 14 she became pregnant and her
grandparents forced her to give the baby up for adoption. Then he left home, left
school and dedicated himself to looking for customers on the roads. Although
Wuorno had relations with several men and a brief marriage, the last one was with
Tyria Moore, a 24-year-old woman. He met her in 1986 at a gay bar and in her he
found the love and stability he had always lacked. "When he believed that the only
way to retain Tyria was money, he stole and killed to get it," says Russell.
When Aileen was captured in January 1991, paradoxically in a bar called The Last
Refuge, it was Tyria herself who gave her partner a lunge. The authorities had
already tied up the modus operandi of the murderer and some witnesses gave the
description of two women who had seen one of the victims in the stolen car. When
Tyria was arrested, to save herself, she claimed that she had nothing to do with the
crimes, but revealed that Aileen one day arrived with Mallory's Cadillac and told
him, while drinking a beer, that he had killed a man.
Wuorno confirmed the version, but said it had been in self-defense, that all his
victims had tried to rape her. However, the evidence showed that the bodies in
almost all cases had shots in the back. "I thought they were going to be so broken
that they weren't going to realize that," Wuorno confessed wryly. Although the
defense alleged mental illness, she was sentenced to six death sentences. Finally,
she fired her lawyers herself, acknowledged her crimes and said she wanted to
die: "I am someone who really hates human life and would kill again," she wrote to
the Florida Supreme Court, which agreed to end the appeals.
He spent more than 10 years in the death row and took every minute to get closer
to his dream of fame. His face was on all the news and he charged for his
interviews. When she felt that the guards treated her with contempt she demanded:
"You don't know who I am? I'm Aileen Wuorno, the one on television."