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Date apprehended. April 1980. Imprisoned at. Florida State Prison. Gerald Eugene Stano (born Paul Zeininger; September 12, 1951 – March 23, 1998) was an American convicted serial killer. Stano murdered at least 22 young women and girls, confessed to 41 murders and the police say the number of his victims may be closer to 88.
Jan 16, 2019 · Gerald Stano was prosecuted for 33 murders. The man who investigated him said the actual number of homicides the serial killer committed nearly tripled that. For killing a 17-year-old Port Orange ...
Detailed Accounts of Significant Murders. Gerald Stano’s murders were characterized by their brutality and the vulnerability of his victims. Among the most notable was the murder of Janine Marie Ligotino and Ann Eugenia Arceneaux in Gainesville, Florida, in 1973. Both young women were found stabbed to death.
Sep 12, 2005 · Stano executed with no glitch. Gerald Stano, who may have been one of the nation's most prolific serial killers, was put to death in Florida's electric chair Monday in the state's first execution ...
- Former Times Staffer
Stano's scheduled execution was a result of his murder conviction in the December 1973 death of Cathy Lee Scharf, a 17-year-old hitchhiker from Port Orange, Florida. She was found stabbed to death in a remote area of Broward County, Florida. Stano eventually confessed to killing some 41 women in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.
According to Ecker, Stano initially denied killing the young woman, but as each hour passed by he began to break. In the end, he confessed and signed a confession to the murder of Toni Van Haddocks. Crow began to wonder how many more women Stano might have murdered and began to search through all of the unsolved cases dating back to 1975.
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Jun 16, 2011 · Stano at one point claimed two other local victims, a Mulberry woman found dead in a citrus grove near Homeland in 1973 and a Plant City woman whose remains were found in Lakeland in 1979.
