Aileen Wuornos: Part 01 - The Girl in the Woods
Obscura: A True Crime Podcast
Justin Drown
4.6 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
She had stopped going to school. She had no money. There was no adult on the planet looking for her. What she had was a sleeping bag in the snow.
Her name was Aileen Carol Pittman. The world would come to know her by her grandparents’ last name. Wuornos.
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| 1:01.1 | In the winter of 1971, in the woods on the outskirts of Troy, Michigan, |
| 1:07.2 | a 15-year-old girl was living in a sleeping bag in the snow. |
| 1:11.3 | She had a small clearing she had picked out for herself. |
| 1:14.6 | A fire pit she had dug. |
| 1:16.7 | A few items of clothing and a plastic bag. |
| 1:19.8 | Cigarettes when she could trade for them. |
| 1:21.6 | The patch of woods around her was hers in a way that nothing in her life up to that point had ever really been, |
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