I Would Find a Girl Walking by Diana Montane & Kathy Kelly

Author:Diana Montane & Kathy Kelly [Montane, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2011-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

In a written statement dated March 6, 1981, Gerald Stano wrote:

“I remember taking a girl up there with me (Bulow Creek) with a blue purse trimmed in brown and light colored clothes. During our travel we got into an argument and I hit her in the head with the back of my hand. . . . She said she wanted to go back to the beach and I said shut up bitch and I hit her again.”

Stano’s account of the slaying continued:

“We then stopped along some little path and I began to move towards her and she was nervous. Then I put my hands up to her and I strangled her.”

Armed with Stano’s written statement, Sergeant Paul Crow interviewed the suspect at the Daytona Beach Police Department on March 12, 1981.

Once more, Sergeant Crow advised Stano of his rights and ascertained that his current address was the Volusia County Jail. Crow then said the name “Nancy Heard” into his tape recorder, spelling it out, “H-E-A-R-D,” and opened his line of questioning.

“And you’re willing to talk to me at this time about a case in 1975, a white female who has been identified as Nancy Heard in reference to a homicide investigation?”

“Yes, sir.” Stano knew the drill by then.

“Mr. Stano, in January of 1975, do you recall ever picking up a white female in the Ormond Beach area?”

“Yes, I do.”

Then, as usual, Crow asked Stano about the approximate location where he had picked up his victim, as well as a physical description of the girl, if only to determine with final certainty that she was indeed Nancy Heard. Stano was as precise as he was detached in his answers.

“In regards to the first part of the question, I picked her up around the Mandarin Motel on the beachside. She was walking down the beach, down the beach stairs from the Mandarin Motel. It was towards afternoon. She was wearing a blue pair of pants, or excuse me, strike that, jeans, uh, a light shirt, uh, uh a blue Wrangler jacket with red trim and a blue pocketbook with red trim, or reddish brown trim.”

The sergeant wanted to know if Stano and the young woman had any type of conversation that would have personalized the victim to her attacker. At this point, the investigator had no idea that the attack had been all too personal.

“Uh, the conversation was just, just a little. She said she worked at the Mandarin Motel as a maid and, um, asked me what I did and I told her I worked for Publix Supermarket.” Stano did not, of course, but it was his way of ingratiating himself to a potential prey.

Crow wanted to broach the subject of favorite hunting grounds.

“Are you very familiar with the motels along Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach, the names of the motels?”

“Yes, sir. I could name at least half the motels down the beachside.”

“And you’re positive of the name of the motel you’ve mentioned that you picked her up behind, or whatever?”

“Yes, sir, the Mandarin Motel.

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