Monster: Inside the Mind of Aileen Wuornos

CHRONOLOGY OF DATES AND EVENTS

29 February 1956 – born Aileen Carol Pittman

1960 – Lee’s mother abandons her 18 March 1960 – Adopted by her grandparents Lauri and Britta Wuornos

January 1971 – Lee’s baby boy adopted

1971 –Lee’s natural father hangs himself in prison

7 July 1971 – Britta Wuornos dies

1974 – Jailed for the first time

January 1976 – Lauri Wuornos commits suicide

March 1976 – Lee marries Lewis Gratz Fell

16 July 1976 – Lee’s brother Keith dies of cancer

July 1976 – Lee and her husband separate

19 July 1977 – Lee and Lewis divorce

4 August 1977 – Fined for assault and battery

1978 – Attempts suicide with a gun

1981 – Moves into a mobile home with a boyfriend

20 May 1981 – Lee robs store at gunpoint

4 May 1982 – Imprisoned for robbery

30 June 1983 – Released

January 1984 – Hitchhikes to Smyrna Beach, Florida

1 May 1984 – Arrested for passing forged cheques

1985 – First lesbian love affair with a girl called Toni

30 November 1985 – Suspect in the theft of a pistol and ammunition

4 January 1986 – Arrested and charged with auto theft

2 June 1986 – Arrested for threatening a man with a pistol and demanding money. Bailed

8 June 1986 – Ticketed for speeding

June 1986 – Meets Tyria Moore

November 1986 – Arrested for grand larceny

March 1987 – Lee and Tyria move into a trailer at Ormond-by-the-Sea

1 December 1989 – Richard Mallory murdered and, later, his car discovered

6 December 1989 – Lee pawns Richard Mallory’s property

13 December 1989 – Richard Mallory’s body found

19 May 1990 – David Spears murdered

20 May 1990 – David Spears’s vehicle found

21/22 May 1990 – Charles Carskaddon murdered

1 June 1990 – Spears’s body discovered

6 June 1990 – Charles Carskaddon’s body found

7 June 1990 – Charles Carskaddon’s vehicle found

7/8 June 1990 – Peter Siems murdered

4 July 1990 – Tyria and Lee crash Peter Siems’s car

30 July 1990 – Troy Burress murdered

31 July 1990 – Burress’s truck found

4 August 1990 – Troy Burress’s body discovered

6 September 1990 – Curtis Reid murdered

11 September 1990 – Curtis Reid’s car found

11 September 1990 – Charles Humphreys murdered

12 September 1990 – Humphreys’s body discovered

19 September 1990 – Humphreys’s car found

13/15 November 1990 – Tyria leaves Florida for Thanksgiving

16 November 1990 – Bobby Lee Copus picks up Lee and narrowly escapes with his life

17 November 1990 – Walter Gino Antonio murdered

18 November 1990 – Antonio’s body found

23 November 1990 – Tyria returned to Lee in Florida. Lee gives Tyria Antonio’s ring

24 November 1990 – Antonio’s car discovered

2 December 1990 – Lee throws her murder weapon into Rose Bay promising Tyria that she will never kill again

3 December 1990 – Lee and Tyria part company for the last time. Tyria hands back the ring

7 December 1990 – Lee pawns Antonio’s engagement ring

10 December 1990 – Lee leaves lodgings

8 January 1991 – Lee spotted by police

9 January 1991 – Arrested

10 January 1991 – Tyria located in Pennsylvania

11 January 1991 – Tyria relocated to Florida. For three days she speaks on the phone to Lee in jail

19 January 1991 – Lee presented with a movie contract while in the county jail

28 January 1991 – Indicted for the murder of Richard Mallory

29 January 1991 – Police try to thrash out a $2.5 million movie deal with Tyria

14 January 1992 – Lee sent for trial

27 January 1992 – Found guilty of the murder of Richard Mallory

31 January 1992 – Sentenced to death. Received at the Broward Correctional Institute, Death Row

31 March 1992 – Pleads ‘no contest’ to the murders of Humphreys, Burress and Spears

15 May 1992 – Given three more death sentences

9 October 2002 – Executed by lethal injection