Serial Killer Informers
Killer of the Week:
Gerald Stano
Full name: Gerald Stano
Date of Birth: 1951
Died: February, 1998 (executed)
Victims: 41
Reign of terror: 1970-1981
Caught: 1981
Stano's story begins in the early 70s,
in the coastal regions of Florida.
A young man of 22 years,
he was pudgy, short,
and not what one would
categorize as a looker. In his mind, he most
definantly felt the opposite,
referring to himself as a,
REAL ITALIAN STALLION.
Mr. Stano was anything but a stallion,
however, in fact , he was nothing
but a cold blooded psychopath.
AT the time of his arrest,
in March of 1981, he confessed to
33 gruesome murders.
The number has ascended to 41
at present day.
Twenty-two bodies were found,
identified, and credited to this sick slasher.
Listed below are a few of
the many brutal stories Mr. Stano
offered the police in 1981.
Please read carefully and
remember that these girls are not
made-up, they were living,
breathing people just like me
and you that laughed, cried,
had kids, were kids, and had
a right to a life. This will help you
to see the true evil that is Gerald Stano.
Mary Carol Maher,
a good-looking, twenty year old hitchhiker,
made a bad decision one day in 1980,
one that cost her dearly.
After some time at a bar,
she walked out of the bar,
looking for a ride.
It wasn?t long until a man
took notice and pulled over.
Mary Carol got in.
They drove only a short
distance before she could realized
she was in trouble. At a red
light, the man put his hand
on her leg and said,?
I want some right here?
, where he was met with
mocking laughter. She did not laugh long.
Her hysterics turned to terror
in only moments when
he exposed the blade.
She lunged for the door,
but his grip was too strong.
Gerald began screaming repeatedly,
ripping the knife into her chest.
Her body hung forward,
limp, except for her right arm,
which still attempted to open the door.
Stano abruptly pulled her back,
and punched many new holes in her,
until she moved no more.
Then he looked for a quick place
of disposal before his blood-stained
upholstery was ruined. They found her
decomposed remains approximately two weeks later.
Toni Van Haddocks life was tough.
She was a prostitute,
forced to live this life by
a man she stayed with,
she was ready for someone to love her.
She would never get the chance.
One night, Toni was on the street,
as she had been so many times,
when a car pulled up and a man
offered her thirty bucks. She accepted readily.
He took her in and off they went.
She only got worried when he kept driving.
She was used to doing her thing
close to her neighborhood and jumping back on the streets.
He eventually turned down a dirt road.
Her right arm was in a cast,
and he began hitting it
and laughing at her pain.
He then stopped and forced her to go down on him.
When she had finished,
she reluctantly asked for her fee.
Without delay, he reached under the
seat, grabbed the knife,
stabbed her twice in the car.
Then he dragged her convulsing body from the car,
and commenced to ram his weapon into her head thirty-eight times.
Then he pulled her
corpse out away from his car
and threw tree branches on it.
Then he went home,
cleaned the gore off his car seat,
cleaned his knife,
locked the stuff in his trunk,
and went to bed,
as if it were another day at the office.
Had it not been for a victim of
some thirty stab wounds who actually
survived, Stano might still be loose today.
Donna Hensley, a drug-addict prostitute,
was attacked in a Florida hotel, beaten,
stabbed repeatedly, but lived to finger Stano as her assailant.
Stano began telling his monstrous tales at this point.
He was tried, convicted, and sent to Death Row
at Florida State Prison, where he spent the rest of his life
until he was executed in 1998
Finally, in november 1990, Andrei was arrested for the final time, confessing all of his grisly
crimes to police. Sentenced to death, Andrei Chikatillo was executed Russian style on
February 16, 1994.
STANO'S IDENTIFIED VICTIMSANN ARCENEAUX-17
JANINE MARIE LIGOTINO-19
BARBARA BAUER-17
NANCY HEARD-24
DIANA LYNN VALLECK-18
CATHY LEE SCHARF-17
SUSAN BASILE-12
SUSAN BICKREST-24
BONNIE HUGHES-34
LINDA ANN HAMILTON-16
MOLLY NEWELL-20
JOAN GAIL FOSTER-18
EMILY BRANCH-21
RAMONA NEAL-18
PHOEBE WINSTON-23
EMILY GRIEVE-38
MARY KATHLEEN MULDOON-23
SANDRA DuBOSE-34
DOROTHY WILLIAMS-17
CHRISTINE GOODSON-17
MARY CAROL MAHER-20
TONI VAN HADDOCKS-26
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