County, Florida. She had been strangled to death and had been abducted from a Holly Hill shopping mall. Cathy Lee Scharf, 17, a hitchhiker from Port Orange whose body was found on January 19, 1974, by hunters in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville, Brevard County, Florida. She had been fatally stabbed and strangled between December 1973 and January 1974. On January 2, 1975, the body of Nancy Jean Heard, 24, was found near Bulow Creek Road, just north of Ormond Beach. Her strangled body was posed and covered with tree branches. She was last seen hitchhiking on Atlantic Avenue. Diana Lynn Valleck, 18, was found on May 19, 1975 in an empty lot in Wesley Chapel, Florida, at the intersection of State Road 54 and Livingston Rd. She had been shot to death. Susan Basille, 12, was last seen in Port Orange, Florida on June 10, 1975. According to Stano's 1982 confession, he picked her up as she exited a school bus after enticing her with a ride to the Starlite Skate Center on South Nova Road. Instead, he strangled her and left her body in a patch of woods, covered with palm fronds. Her body was never found and the site has since been built over. On July 22, 1975, a fisherman discovered the body of 16-year-old Linda Ann Hamilton strangled, drowned and buried in the sand of a beach near Turtle Mound State Park in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. She was last seen walking down Atlantic Avenue. 21-year-old Emily Branch was found murdered sometime in December 1975 in Florida under unspecified circumstances. Stano confessed to her murder among many others in 1982. Susan Bickrest, 24, was an aspiring cosmetologist who had just moved to Daytona Beach from Ohio and was kidnapped by Stano from her place of work on December 20, 1975. Her strangled body was found floating in Spruce Spring Creek later that month. 35-year-old Bonnie Williams Hughes was found on February 11, 1976, approximately 200 yards south of CR 546, near the intersection of 546 and U.S. Highway 27. She had been beaten about her head and face. Her 1974 brown and gold Cadillac sedan was found 50 feet from her body. She was deaf in both ears, and was last seen at an oyster bar in Winter Haven with an unknown white male. Ramona Cheryl Neal, 18, was found in Tomoka State