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Aileen Wuornos confessed to killing seven men in Florida from 1989 to 1990

She was working as a prostitute at the time and claimed in her trial that she was acting in self-defense

Wuornos received six death sentences and was executed in 2002

Aileen Wuornos was working as a prostitute in Florida when she killed seven men from 1989 to 1990.

She committed her first known murder in November 1989 when Richard Mallory approached her in Clearwater, Fla. The store owner was later found shot to death. After she was convicted of Mallory's murder years later, she alleged that he had raped and beaten her and that she had acted in self-defense, per the Associated Press.

For the 12 months following Mallory's murder, Wuornos continued her killing spree, getting picked up by client

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