Homicide suspect, victims met at library in Florida

The Reader’s Shop writes Here’s An Odd One.

Reference librarian Laura Ling, 43 and Henry Lee Turner, 74 met at the Socastee Library in Florida. Ling met Stephen Stanko when he visited the library to reserch a book he was writing on prison life. Turner often talked with Stanko and Ling when he visited the library.

Police say they think Stanko strangled Ling, his girlfriend of five months, and sexually assaulted a girl in the home around 2 a.m. Friday. Turner was killed in his home on Saturday.

Police in Horry and Georgetown counties have issued national alerts for Stanko, who is still at large, and other library employees remained under police protection at work.

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