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Infamous female serial killer ‘monster’ Aileen Wuornos is born

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The Florida female serial killer was the daughter of a child molester who thankfully left when her mother was pregnant with Aileen. Unable to cope, her mother gave her children to Aileen’s grandparents.

Aileen was pregnant at 14, and like her mother before her, she didn’t raise her child. Aileen became a prostitute and a petty criminal.

And then she met someone who could have changed her entire life for the better...