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Aileen Carol Wuornos "America's First Female Serial Killer" FBI Files & Court Documents

605 pages of Aileen Wuornos FBI files, appellate court documents, and additional material.

Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 – October 9, 2002) was execution by lethal injection on October 9, 2002 for the murder of six men.  She was the second woman to be executed in Florida since 1848, in March 1988 Judy Buenoano died in in the state's electric chair.

Between December 1989 and September 1990, the bodies of several men were found murdered along the highways of northern and central Florida, including Richard Mallory, Dick Humphreys, Troy Burress, David Spears, Walter Gino Antonio, Peter Siems, and Charles Carskaddon.

Items belonging to Mallory and Antonio were pawned near Daytona Beach and the alias names used were traced to Wuornos through thumbprints left on the pawn shop cards. Wuornos confessed to the murder of all six men, claiming that she was picked up by the men when she was working as a highway prostitute, and shot them in self-defense after they attempted to sexually assault her.

Wuornos was convicted of the murder of Richard Mallory after a jury trial in Volusia County and was sentenced to death. At trial, the State was allowed to introduce similar crimes evidence about Wuornos' commission of several other murders. While on death row, it was discovered that Mallory had previously served time for attempted rape. Wuornos pleaded no contest to the murders of the other 5 men and was sentenced to death in each case.

Within two weeks of her arrest, Wuornos and her attorney had sold movie rights to her story. Investigators in her case did likewise. The case resulted in several books and movies, and even one opera on the life of "America's first female serial killer." Wuornos’s father, Leo Dale Pittman, was a child molester and a sociopath who was strangled in prison in 1969. Wuornos was pregnant at age fourteen. Shortly thereafter, she dropped out of school, left home and took up hitchhiking and prostitution. Wuornos had a prior conviction for armed robbery in 1982.

According to the Clark County Prosecuting Attorney office, Wuornos declined the traditional last meal, which could have been anything she wanted for under $20, and instead was given a cup of coffee.

Her last words were reported as, "I'd just like to say I'm sailing with the rock, and I'll be back like Independence Day, with Jesus June 6. Like the movie, big mother ship and all, I'll be back."

The homicides attributed to Wuornos:

Richard Mallory, 51, Clearwater electronics shop owner. On December 1, 1989, a deputy in Volusia County discovered an abandoned vehicle belonging to Richard Mallory. His body was found December 13, several miles away in a wooded area. Mallory had been shot several times, two bullets to the left lung were found to have caused hemorrhaging and ultimately death.

David Spears, 43, Winter Garden construction worker, body found June 1, 1990, along Highway 19 in Citrus County. Except for a baseball cap, Spears was nude. He had died of six bullet wounds to the torso.

Charles Carskaddon, 40, part-time rodeo worker, body found June 6, 1990, in Pasco County. The medical examiner found nine small caliber bullets in his lower chest and upper abdomen.

Troy Burress, 50, a sausage salesman from Ocala, was reported missing July 31, 1990. On August 4, 1990 law officers found the body in a wooded area along State Road 19 in Marion County. The body was substantially decomposed, but evidence showed he had been shot twice.

Charles "Dick" Humphreys, 56, retired Air Force major, former police chief and Florida state child abuse investigator, body found in Marion County on September 12, 1990. The body was fully clothed and had been shot six times in the head and torso. Humphreys' car was found in Suwannee County.

Walter Jeno Antonio, 62, body found on November 19, 1990 near a remote logging road in Dixie County. His body was nearly nude and had been shot four times in the back and head. Law officers found Antonio's car five days later in Brevard County.

 Peter Siems, 65. In June 1990, Peter Siems left Jupiter, Florida, heading for New Jersey. Law officers later found Siems' car in Orange Springs on July 4, 1990. Witnesses identified Tyria Moore and Aileen Wuornos as the two persons seen leaving the car where it ultimately was found. A palm print on the interior door handle matched that of Wuornos. Siems' body has never been found.

 
FBI FILES

114 pages of FBI files related to the Wuornos case. The earliest files dated from December 1990, when the FBI Investigative Support Unit, Quantico began looking into the murders.  At the time the FBI believed that the cases of ten murdered or missing white men in Central Florida between April 15, 1990 and November 30, 1990, were connected.

Includes a report from the FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Behavioral Analysis Unit on its analysis to determine the probability that Wuornos murdered James Weston Chambers. The unit's conclusion was that Chambers was not murdered by Wuornos.
 

FLORIDA APPELLATE COURT DOCUMENTS

400 pages of fillings and related documents part of and in response to post-trial appeals. The filings cover issues such as competency,  aggravating circumstances at the time of the murders, jury instructions and effectiveness of her trial attorney. Files includes Wuornos’ handwritten submittals.

 
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Additional material includes:

1992 psychological evaluations of Wuornos by Dr. Harry Krop and Dr. Bill E. Mosman (Oct 8, 1992)

Psychological evaluation of Wuornos, conducted after trial, prior to hearings on other charges (July 13, 1992)

Wuornos' letter to Judge Hall asking for hearing to waive appeals (April 26, 2001)

Wuornos' letter to Chief Justice Walls asking for hearing to waive appeals (June 6, 2001)

Death Warrant (Sept. 5, 2002)

Wuornos' writings accusing prison officials of abuse

Letter to Florida Supreme Court from Raag Singhal, attorney appointed to represent Wuornos, requesting a psychological evaluation of Wuornos prior to her execution ) (Sept. 26, 2002)

Dissolution of Temporary Stay of Execution (Oct. 2, 2002)

"Next friend" letter from Florida Support, requesting a stay of execution on the grounds of Wuornos' insanity (10/07/02)

Motion to Declare Wuornos Incompetent to be Executed (Oct 8, 2002)