Aileen Wuornos, executed in Florida on October 9, 2002 for seven murders
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"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 mothership and all. I'll be back."
Wuornos has so far been the only American Finn to ever been executed and the only female serial killer who has not been an angel of death or an angelmaker. The theatrical film 'Monster' was based on Aileen Wuornos. She lived a life you really would not hope even to your worst enemy and she was crazy as a loon, yet deemed culpable and sound enough to be legally poisoned.
Using the Psychopathy Checklist, Wuornos was found to have a psychopathic personality with a PCL-R score of 32 with the cutoff score for psychopathy being 30 in the United States. Wuornos also met the criteria for both borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
Much of Wuornos's childhood, sexual and violent abuse and early career in prostitution are said to have damaged her irrevocably, and it could be seen that traumatic experiences throughout most of her young life could play a part in Wuornos's psychological state.
Wuornos was also known to have early behavioral problems such as having an explosive temper which limited her ability to make friends as well as making it increasingly difficult to maintain relationships. All this, including her traumatic upbringing as well as physical and sexual abuse she was subjected to have been partially linked to the development of borderline personality disorder. Such severe trauma can also interrupt the development of the mind and result in "primitive, dissociative, and splitting defenses to ward off the intensity of emotional and sexual stimulation that cannot be integrated as a child." continue reading

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