What was the reason behind Aileen Wuornos's killings?

Answer 1

From what I know, she was repeatedly abused & raped throughout her life, which contributed to her feeling fully justified in killing all of those men, who she felt were all a threat to her. She's a classic female psychopathic/sociopathic killer. She killed 7 men. Some of the men may have been bad guys, but some posed no threat to her--even some who showed her kindness. One of her victims was a former Air Force major, police chief & child abuse investigator who'd worked to put rapists and pedophiles behind bars--he was found shot 6 times in the head & torso with all of his clothes on & no signs of sexual activity or that he had done anything wrong. Another victim was a police reservist shot 4 times. She shot them all between 2-9 times & dumped their bodies in the woods, often abandoning their cars miles away. One man's body was never found, but Aileen and her girlfriend Tyria Moore were seen abandoning the car. Aileen's hand print was found on the interior door handle.

Around 12-years old she was already engaged in manipulation and trading sex/sexual favors for things like cigarettes, lunch or cash with boys at school, displayed a lack of conscience & empathy, violent crimes, etc. Chances are that she was genetically predisposed to psychopathy. She never met her father, who was convicted & sent to prison after the rape and attempted murder of an 8-year old boy. (and hung himself in prison). Her mother abandoned her at 4-years old. Bad Genes to say the least. It's quite possible that she may have turned out to be a serial killer even if she was adopted, grew up in an idyllic family with a wonderful childhood & experienced no traumatic events. Genetics play a larger role in these things than many people realize-they can at the very least provide predisposition.

It's easy to feel sympathy for her, considering some of the terrible & evil things that she experienced in her life, but ultimately she is a serial killer who got off on murdering other human beings in a very brutal, deliberate & vicious way. She claimed self defense, but it's easy to see that's total B.S. It's screwed up, but millions of people are abused, raped and subjected to terrible things throughout their lives--but almost none murder a stranger who've done nothing to harm or seriously threaten them, let alone murdering 7 separate people at different times in the way she did.

Ever heard of someone pumping 2, 3, 4, 6 or 9 (a total of 30 bullets put into 6 people, not including the 7th victim who's never been found) bullets into another human being who happens to be unarmed--then leaving or hiding the body in the woods & abandoning the car miles away, 7 times...all in self defense?