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    Watch Mommy Die

    By Michael Benson

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    The true story of a Jekyll-and-Hyde killer who terrorized South Carolina . . .
     
    First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a forty-three-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenage daughter—warning her, “Scream and I will kill you both”—before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceeded to rape her. And in a final horrifying act of depravity, he forced the girl to watch as he slit her mother’s throat. But the killing didn’t stop there . . .
     
    Stephen Stanko was described as “a perfect gentleman” who “seemed so pleasant . . . and so normal.” But behind Stanko’s mild-mannered appearance, round spectacles, and quiet intelligence was a coldblooded ex-convict who kept a grisly scrapbook on serial killers—and convinced everyone he was a nice guy—until he killed and killed again.
     
    A well-orchestrated manhunt caught up with Stanko, who tried to get away with his crimes by pleading insanity. But the jury saw through his ruse—and the ruthless killer was sentenced to death. Watch Mommy Die is the full story of how law enforcement and the legal system finally stopped his reign of terror.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9780786028566
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    Michael Benson

    Michael Benson works at the intersection of art and science. An artist, writer, and filmmaker, he’s a Fellow of the NY Institute of the Humanities and a past Visiting Scholar at the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Bits and Atoms. In addition to Space Odyssey he has written such books as Cosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through Time, a finalist for the Science and Technology award at the 2015 Los Angeles Times “Festival of Books.” Benson’s planetary landscape photography exhibitions have been shown internationally. He has contributed to many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone. Visit Michael-Benson.com.

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    • 3/5
      This is another new to me True Crime author. This is also just one of those books I picked up at the library. Stephen Stanko was an ex-con and a published author. He used his status as a published author to impress people and glossed over why he went to prison. He had people convinced he was a nice guy. They are all nice guys until you find the bodies in the crawl space – sorry – wrong book.He kept a scrapbook of serial killers, later it became apparent he was using it for ideas on how to become one himself. He was adept at using people, and once they no longer served his purpose, he disposed of them.This book details his crimes after he was released from prison, not too much detail on his life before that and the man hunt after he assaulted his girlfriend and her daughter.This is well-researched and written true crime account. It has detailed information but not so many details that it gets bogged down in the details.

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    • 4/5
      Case of Stephen Stanko, Myrtle Beach area. Note: this true crime book is much more engrossing and intelligent and less sensational than its title would allow.