Blind Fury

by Anna Flowers

Book Overview

A biography of the heinous serial killer chronicles Eugene Stano's eight-year killing spree, which lasted through most of the 1970s and claimed the lives of thirty-three women. Original. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558177191
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 4.3" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Gerald Eugene Stano

BLIND FURY,published by Pinnacle, NY in 1993, was a lead title for Doubleday's True Crime Book Club and has been widely read through five mass media printings. It is a comprehensive study of the case of serial killer Gerald Stano, who was executed in Florida in 1997 for the murder of Cathy Lee Scharf - one of his known 41 victims. Stano is believed to be the most prolific killer of the last century. It vividly chronicles the homicides while giving insight into the criminal mind and criminal justice system.

"Blind Fury" is detailed and informative

When the prolific serial killer Gerald Eugene Stano was recently executed in Florida, I was inspired to find out more about this man and his crimes. Flowers book is an incredibly detailed and thorough study of Stano's extended killing spree, and his eventual capture and conviction. Anyone who enjoys a good crime story will love this book. While I do not believe in the death penalty, Flowers gives the reader a strong and well-presented argument for limiting the long appeals process that is part of capital cases in Florida. This is a thought-provoking and entertaining book.

Shocking truths. The definitive work on killer Gerald Stano.

I read this book during all the controversy over Stano's scheduled execution in Florida's quirky electric chair, nicknamed "Old Sparky." Gerald Stano's long-postponed execution was finally carried out in Florida in early 1998, bringing closure, after too many years, to this macabre case. After reading Flowers' account of Stano's crime spree in "Blind Fury", which she presents in journalistic rather than emotional style--detailing facts, confessions, figures, and evidence, I can accept that justice was done when Stano was removed from this earth. According to Flowers' account, Stano murdered more than thirty women, and possibly upwards of forty, though exactly how many will never be known. Excellent reporting of a true crime, in its third printing, Flowers' will remain the definitive work on Gerald Stano and serial killers. Highly recommended for true crime readers.