Carlton Gary's Kevo

Carlton Gary lived a life filled with mistrust and feelings of abandonment. He was never acquainted with his father, who ran off before he was born, which gave him no father figure, or role model to follow in his life. Gary’s mother also abandoned him at an early age, after taking him to be raised by his grandmother. As a child, Gary did not have much of a life. He was lonely growing up, since he was an only child, and had very few friends. He was often described as aloof and reserved. He looked undernourished, and appeared scrawny. In his grade school years he suffered from a head injury when he was knocked unconsious during recess. By the time Gary was a teenager, he was experiencing drugs, and acquiring a criminal record of robbery, arson, and assault. He dropped out of high school before he was eighteen, and married a young woman he had been dating for only a few months in 1966. Gary then moved to New York, taking his wife with him, finding a job as a janitor, and joined a band as a drummer playing in nightclubs during the evenings. Gary’s dark nature could not be tamed by marriage or raising a family, when he abandoned his wife and two children, just as his father and mother had abandoned him. He took on various aliases and traveled around to different cities in states such as South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. In his wake he left seven elderly women raped and strangled in their homes. Gary took on the modus operandi of breaking into elderly women’s homes who lived alone, and sexually assaulting and strangling them with a pair of panty hose, which gave him the moniker of “The Stocking Strangler.” He was finally arrested in 1979 for a series of burglaries, but escaped in 1984, fleeing to Florida where police once again caught up with him. During his trial, he tried every ruse in the book to get a lesser charge, such as, feigning mental illness, and attempting suicide. Eventually he was sentenced to death for three of the murders.
Work History
(1966) Carlton Gary took a job as a janitor in New York after dropping out of high school in Columbus, Georgia, and getting married. Gary was also in a band as a drummer.