Eileen Warnos: Crimes and the Execution of the Serial Killer Played by Charlize Theron
'11.06.2022'
Source: Yandex Zen
Eileen Wuornos is an American serial killer nicknamed the Angel of Death. The police were able to catch her only when the death toll reached 7, says the author of the blog "Smart" on Yandex Zen.
In 2003, Patty Jenkins' Monster, a film shot jointly by German and American filmmakers, was released. The painting was based on a true biography of Florida prostitute Eileen Wornos, who became a serial killer.
The plot of the movie
The main roles in the film were played by Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci. According to the plot, street prostitute Eileen Wornos (Charlize Theron) meets a young lesbian Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) in a bar.
Between them there is a romantic relationship. Eileen accidentally kills one of her clients, who beat and raped her. She cannot get a normal job, and Selby wants her friend to support her. Then Eileen begins to kill her customers and thus earns money for a living. In the end, Selby betrays his mistress, having begun to cooperate with the police, and she is sentenced to death.
The picture made a lot of noise in its time and in 2004 brought Charlize Theron an Oscar for Best Actress.
What was the real Eileen Wornos?
Eileen Carol Pittman was born on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan. Eileen never saw her father, Leo Dale Pittman - two months before her birth he was sent to prison for sexual crimes against children. He was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, and on January 30, 1969, he hanged himself in his cell.
At 4 years old, mother, Diana Wornos, threw Eileen and her brother Keith to grandfather and grandmother - disappeared into an unknown direction. From the age of 11, the girl began to have sex with schoolmates in exchange for food, cigarettes and drugs. She also claimed to have sex with her grandfather and brother. At age 15, Eileen dropped out of school and began to earn a living as a prostitute.
Several times the girl was arrested for antisocial behavior and drunk driving. In 1976, she married the 69-year-old chairman of the Florida Yacht Club, Lewis Graz Fell. But the marriage lasted a little over two months. During the divorce proceedings, Lewis claimed that the young wife constantly beat him and spent his money without permission.
Eileen has been repeatedly tried for theft and fraud.
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In 1986, she met at the Daytona Beach gay bar with Tyra Moore, who worked as a maid at the hotel. They went traveling together. They lived on the money that Eileen earned by prostitution.
Crimes and Executions
Wornos committed the first murder on November 30, 1989. The victim was 51-year-old Richard Mallory, the owner of an electronics store in Clearwater, who rented a prostitute on the highway. On December 2, police found Mallory abandoned the Cadillac near Ormond Beach, and on December 13, a man’s body was found in the forest a few miles from the site, with several bullet wounds in the lung area.
Over the next few years, Eileen Wornos killed six more people. They were: 43-year-old construction worker David Spears; 40-year-old rodeo worker Charles Karskadon; Retired 65-year-old merchant marine sailor and Christian preacher Peter Sims; 50-year-old sausage van driver Troy Baress; 56-year-old retired US Army Major and former police chief Charles Humphries; 62-year-old Walter Geno Antonio, who in the past worked as a truck driver, security guard and police officer. All the victims were single men of middle and old ages, all of them were drivers of cars that drove Eileen (apparently, counting on sexual services). All the killings were carried out according to one scheme: the victims were shot with a 22-caliber pistol; the body and car were usually left in a forest or other uninhabited place. In some cases, Wornos tried to hide evidence. She took everything of value with her.
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In the end, there were witnesses who pointed to Eileen. She was arrested. During interrogations, the accused stated that her actions were self-defense, since all the men killed by her either raped her or tried to do so. However, in 1996, the Supreme Court sentenced Eileen Wornos to death. On October 9, 2002, she was given a lethal injection. Her last words before the execution were: "I will return."
After cremation, Eileen was taken away by her childhood friend Don Botkins. It was dispelled in Michigan, in Eileen's homeland.
Eileen Wornos became the tenth woman who was executed in the United States after the introduction of capital punishment in 1976, and the second maniac woman in the country after Lavinia Fisher (she was executed in 1820). Books were written about her and not only feature films were shot, but also documentaries. One of them was called: “Eileen. Life and death of a serial killer. "
Anastasia Kara's original column published on the blog «Smart" on Yandex Zen
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