The Disturbing Childhood Of Aileen Wuornos | Snapped | Felony Files — Transcript

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1. 0:00it's winter 1989 Daytona Beach Florida
2. 0:03is a safe quiet city where most
3. 0:06homicides come from the drug trade the
4. 0:08cocaine Cowboys on December 13th
5. 0:12investigators find the body of Richard
6. 0:14Mallory a store owner when Richard
7. 0:17Mallory's body was found he was covered
8. 0:20with a bit of carpet and palm fronds his
9. 0:23belt was done up his trousers were done
10. 0:26up his trouser pockets had been turned
11. 0:28inside-out he had been robbed and shot
12. 0:31to death with a 22 caliber pistol the
13. 0:34first bullet entered from the right side
14. 0:37of his body and it went on through his
15. 0:39lung the second bullet went through this
16. 0:43part of his body as well everybody
17. 0:46thought this was just another
18. 0:47drug-related homicide we didn't have a
19. 0:51clue as to how big this really was or
20. 0:53how important it was to so many people
21. 0:55there was no evidence that linked anyone
22. 0:57to that death the bulk of what we know
23. 1:00about the malory homicide and how it
24. 1:02occurred is actually through Aileen
25. 1:05Wuornos with Aileen Wuornos I always
26. 1:09looked at it as a stack of dominoes if
27. 1:12you will forward
28. 1:14throughout her life from being a young
29. 1:17child to an adolescent to the
30. 1:20hitchhiking prostitute to everything
31. 1:23that came before her execution Aileen
32. 1:30Wuornos was born in Michigan in 1956 she
33. 1:34was the daughter of a woman called Diane
34. 1:37who had two children Eileen and Keith
35. 1:40and she abandoned them twice in their
36. 1:43first two years of life my name is sue
37. 1:47Russell author of a book about Eileen
38. 1:49Wallace's life of crime
39. 1:52ayane's father was a convicted sex
40. 1:55offender and rapist
41. 1:56so when Diane abandoned the two babies
42. 2:00they were raised by her grandparents
43. 2:02with Diane's siblings Lori and Barry it
44. 2:08was a very dysfunctional family her
45. 2:10grandfather he was an alcoholic it was
46. 2:13very hard on Eileen in teeth and he
47. 2:17would whip them with a leather belt
48. 2:21the neighborhood kids they would hit
49. 2:23screaming from across the yard she was
50. 2:30my friend when we were teenagers and
51. 2:31she's not all malicious you know like
52. 2:34people say I've gone back khun's I mean
53. 2:36we're nurses best friend she loved Coney
54. 2:38Island's I'd love to go see movies and
55. 2:40things like dad she's very beautiful she
56. 2:42had perfectly blonde hair and she always
57. 2:44had her tan took care of herself who
58. 2:46loved her white teeth always was a nut
59. 2:48ball brushing her teeth constantly and
60. 2:50when she smiled she had the most
61. 2:51beautiful smile kidding hell but it's
62. 2:53just when she drank all sudden that
63. 2:55smile returned until summer you wouldn't
64. 2:57want to know at the mall
65. 2:58I ain't childhood was so troubled
66. 3:06that by the age of 11 she had her first
67. 3:08sexual experience and she was willing to
68. 3:12prostitute herself for a packet of
69. 3:15cigarettes and she was known in the
70. 3:18neighborhood for this activity she was
71. 3:22incredibly starved for love and
72. 3:24attention and friendship and the way she
73. 3:27went about getting it of course was the
74. 3:29complete opposite something that was
75. 3:32going to bring friendship and love into
76. 3:34her life at age 13 Wuornos is rumored to
77. 3:38have been raped and becomes pregnant it
78. 3:43was a guy that lived in the neighborhood
79. 3:45and he raped her and she got pregnant
80. 3:48they put her an unwed home and nobody
81. 3:51believed there would have anything to do
82. 3:53with there none of her friends they all
83. 3:54turned against her was awful
84. 3:56[Music]
85. 3:58Islands Sun was swept away for adoption
86. 4:01the parents were furious with her she
87. 4:06began running away camping in the woods
88. 4:08and living rough prostituting herself
89. 4:12for money I don't know when she went out
90. 4:15with her customers she had so many of
91. 4:18them that beat on her and stuff like
92. 4:20that but you could tell by looking at
93. 4:21her face that she had a black eye or
94. 4:23something she would steal from stores
95. 4:26run out with unpaid bills and she
96. 4:31basically started to become known for
97. 4:34the local law enforcement she was sent
98. 4:36to juvenile hall a couple of times I
99. 4:38believe that's the only way she could
100. 4:41eat she wasn't allowed back in the home
101. 4:45at the age of 20 Wuornos leaves Michigan
102. 4:48for good and hitchhikes to Florida
103. 4:50Eileen's life did not improve when she
104. 4:53got to Florida she got arrested for
105. 4:55forging checks and armed robbery she
106. 4:58actually got married to a 69 year old we
107. 5:00got club president it only lasted nine
108. 5:03weeks before he got an annulled he
109. 5:05claimed that I'm lean beat him with his
110. 5:07own cane she had no friends no real
111. 5:10relationships her life was empty until
112. 5:13one fateful day in July of 1986
113. 5:19[Music]
114. 5:21item almost met the first true love of
115. 5:24her life
116. 5:24tyria Joleen more Navarre in Florida and
117. 5:28the attraction was in the idiot and thus
118. 5:32began a very intense relationship they
119. 5:36were together for a half years all told
120. 5:38when they met Tyra Moore was a 24 year
121. 5:42old hotel maid ty became ailee's whole
122. 5:45world Eileen had been treated terribly
123. 5:47her whole life now she had a chance to
124. 5:50be happy it was an incredibly meaningful
125. 5:53relationship to her she depended heavily
126. 5:56on ty Aileen didn't one power to lift a
127. 5:59finger
128. 6:00so while Tyra stayed home Aileen earned
129. 6:02money with sex work I aim is desperate
130. 6:07not to be left by Ty her fear of
131. 6:10abandonment was so profound her only way
132. 6:13of dealing with it was to try to have
133. 6:15money
134. 6:19I mean she just had to hook and hook and
135. 6:22hook and she had been raped so many
136. 6:23times and she just decided to fight back
137. 6:27what happened that night was her client
138. 6:30Richard Mallory and with the other
139. 6:32murders depends on who you believe she's
140. 6:36attacked by Mallory trauma gets
141. 6:39activated and so when you look at those
142. 6:42other crimes it is entirely reasonable
143. 6:45that she could be perceiving a
144. 6:49self-defense
145. 6:50I think Eileen was driven by have
146. 6:54mistaken belief that having money would
147. 6:58stop ty from leaving her I truly believe
148. 7:00that was the driving force behind all
149. 7:03these murders
150. 7:06[Music]