Stephen Stanko
Appearances
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
I know that I'm not a person to hurt anybody. I never would have hurt anybody on purpose, never.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
Yeah, I was doing things that I should not have been doing without a license.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
I enjoyed school. I enjoyed sports. I really didn't have too many problems.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
I had wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. I had wanted to design jets. But during his senior year in high school, everything changed. That's when a lot of things happened. That's when I went from honor student, 11th in the class, athlete, and everything else. I turned down some scholarships because I thought I had the Air Force Academy in the bag, and then I didn't get that.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
My dreams kind of went by the wayside at that point. I was just trying to figure out what I was going to do.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
You know, to be considered a genius but do such stupid things. There were times when I would look at it and say, you know, what the heck were you doing?
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
It was like it was good news and bad news. The bad news is you got a brain defect. The good news is you got a brain defect.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
They've showed what's wrong in my frontal lobes. And you can't deny it.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
Henry became kind of a friend and a quasi-father for me for a while. He was good people.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
Usually it's when I'm confronted with violence. I mean, the only times that it's ever happened is when I was confronted with violence.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
or a slap that causes a cigarette to go into my eye. And that's what Laura Ling did? Yes, sir.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
You can use whatever word you want. I mean, I have thought about this. I have thought about why I didn't kill somebody in prison. The one thing I never did in prison was fight somebody when nobody else was around.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
You know, no matter what happens today, if there's one thing I do believe that somehow, someway, my brain and the things that have gone on with it have got to be useful to science.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
I never in the world meant to hurt anybody. It's like there's two of me. I never would have hurt anybody on purpose, never.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
My life with Laura was unconditional. I loved her. She loved me. We never judged each other.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
She slapped at me and I had a cigarette. And the cigarette lodged in between my glasses and burned me.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
When I came to, I put a towel on and I walked into our bedroom and felt for a pulse on both of them.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
For 20 years now, I've been running this race to try and be something I'm not and lying to people and everything else.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
I think about Laura every day. I wish I could remember the things that happened, but I don't.
48 Hours
The Mind of a Murderer
The problem was I was screwing it up a little bit. That's when I was running competence schemes.