Stephen Stanko’s last moments alive resembled a medical procedure, an IV protruding from his arm as he peacefully drifted out of consciousness.
It was an easier death than Stanko granted his two victims in 2005.
As Laura Ling laid dying on her bedroom floor — bound, beaten and strangled — the last thing she likely saw was Stanko raping her 15-year-old daughter. After slitting the daughter’s throat, Stanko fled to his friend Henry Turner’s house in Conway, shot him while he shaved, stole his truck and skipped town…