CA-Diana Lynn Ramel, Manton, missing since 14 Feb 1980

[hoppyfrog]

http://lakeconews.com/content/view/7588/764/

3 March 09

But there is another woman linked to Stanley whose ultimate whereabouts have been a mystery for decades: Diana Lynn Ramel.

In a phone conversation with Lake County News late last month, Stanley stated that he intended to turn over to law enforcement officials and the Tehama County Grand Jury the location of Ramel's body. Ramel went missing on Feb. 14, 1980.

much, much more at link

[monkalup]

CALIFORNIA:

The long wait for justice


Convicted murderer Gerald Stanley wants to die.

Since 1984, Stanley, now 60, has been on death row for the murder of his
wife, Cynthia Rogers. Stanley shot his wife through the heart as she sat
with her father at his Nice resort in August 1980.

Today, Stanley says he is willing to pay the price for his crime, and he
is asking for an execution date.

And, thus far, the answer has been no.

Stanley's isn't a common story on death row. The majority of the 640 death
row inmates at San Quentin State Prison would probably like to go on
living.

(source: Lake County Record-Bee)
http://www.mail-archive.com/deathpenalty@lists.washlaw.edu/msg02247.html

[chicoliving]

~snip~

The one-time Lake County hunting guide recently offered to reveal the burial site of a third wife, who has been missing since the early 1980s, if he can receive a firm execution date.

But Stanley's court-appointed lawyer, Dennis Hoptowit, contends the wife-slayer has vacillated over his desire to die among other things.

~snip~

It was learned Thursday that before conducting a search of the purported burial site, authorities are waiting for the water level to drop in a small creek near the town of Manton in northern Tehama County, where Stanley claimed in a letter to the Enterprise-Record that he buried Diana Lynn, his common-law third wife in 1981, after she allegedly committed suicide.

~snip~

Stanley was convicted of the 1981 sniper-style slaying of his fourth wife in Lake County, while he was on parole for the murder of his second wife.

http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_12427301

Next court date July 6.