Journal Entry 1 by CrazyDutchwoman from Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, November 04, 2011

"I would be drinking and lonely, thinking about all the couples having fun together. And here I am, single, haveing no fun at all. Then I would go out riding around and I would find a girl walking..."-Gerald Stano

His licence plate read: No riders except blondes, brunettes, and redheads. With his flared polyester pants, open nylon shirt, and disco music on his eight track, Gerald Stano believed he was quite the ladies' man. And should a girl dare fracture his ego, he killed her.

By the time he was twenty-eight, Gerald confessed to murdering up to forty women over an eleven-year period. How they died was left to the moment: strangled, stabbed, drowned, or shot. Why? They crossed Gerald's path and were tossed out like trash. But there were other troubling questions: How did this obsessive loner lure so many women into his car? And how could so many appalling crimes go unconnected for so long?

Based on exclusive access to the killer-and extensive correspondence with him-as well as interviews with the lead investigator and the victims' families, this is a revealing, shocking, and unflinching portrait of a man who fancied himself one of the greatest lady-killers of them all. 

Journal Entry 2 by CrazyDutchwoman at Heemstede, Noord-Holland Netherlands on Friday, November 04, 2011

Read from August 25 to 28, 2011

Very disorganized. I started reading this book not knowing much about this serial killer. To my annoyance it got weird real quick. First it starts with how he is caught but then I read that he has been giving the death penalty for several other murders. I cannot find anywhere in the book what happened during all those trials plus it was very confusing to me. Then we finally get to the letters but all the important stuff was already in the first part of the book so it is all repeated. Do not understand why this book has so much raving reviews on amazon. Its not bad but not real good either.
I also discovered that the killing for which he received the death penalty turned out that the DNA found on the body turned out not to be his. There is not much in the book about all the controversy which happened between other cops and Paul Crow the cop who befriended him and got him to confess to so many murders. it is said that he lead him into a lot of confessions. Hardly anything about that in the book even though it was published in 2011.