Gerald Stano

Gerald Eugene Stano (September 12, 1951 - March 23, 1998) was an American serial killer. He killed at least 22 confirmed women and confessed to killing 81.He was more active in Florida and New Jersey. He was arrested after a woman named Donna Hensley had come to the police station bleeding and accused Stano of cutting her off. Stano admitted that his first murder was committed in New Jersey in 1969. He also confessed to killing six other women in Pennsylvania. After moving to Florida, he may have killed up to 30 or more women; A murder that sentenced him to die was the 1973 stabbing of the 17-year-old hitchhiker Cathy Lee Scharf. When he turned 29, he was in prison for allegedly killing 41 women. His victims were killed by different methods, such as strangulation, gunshot wounds and stabbing, but none of them were raped. He was housed with the serial killer Ted Bundy until Bundy's execution in 1989.