Unlike most other serial killers, he never raped his victims - instead he
submitted them to slow, painful deaths. Stano was arrested 1978 and
charged with the December, 1973, murder of Cathy Lee Scharf, a 17-
year-old hitchhiker from Port Orange, Florida.

Stano confessed picking up the teenager while she was hitchhiking on
U.S. 1 in Port Orange and choking her repeatedly over several hours.
After finally killing the girl, he dumped her body in a drainage ditch,
cleaned up and went roller skating. Hunters found her decomposed
body at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville on
January 19, 1974.