... she suffer from bipolar disorder, and was this a contributor to the murders? Was she the product of both nature and nurture? These are questions that will be explored. Aileen Wuornos was born outside of Detroit, Michigan in 1956. Her teenage, unwed mother Diane Wuornos never bonded with the infant, said she "made a lot of racket" and abandoned her before she was two years of age. She never met her father, Leo Dale Pittman; he killed himself while serving time in prison for raping a seven-year-old girl. So it was that Aileen and her brother Keith found themselves living with their alcoholic, abusive grandparents in Troy, Michigan, where Aileen would grow up to be a sad and lonely individual; hostile, aggressive, an outcast to all. "She [Wuornos] apparently engaged in an incestuous relationship with her brother and was kicked out of her grandfather's house at 13, having given birth ...

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