Stanley Rice

After his conviction, Rice was transferred to the Florida State Prison in Raiford, where he remained until his death on November 3, 2007. A year after his conviction, Rice gave an interview in which he frankly discussed about his life, sexual proclivities and his apparent desire to have his sick desires cured, insisting that he hated the fact that he was this way because he considered kids to be his friends.

Approximately a month later, Rice was apparently questioned by authorities over the boy's murder but failed to locate any evidence linking him to the crime. Despite this, Rice soon left the state and returned to Concord. In January 1968, he was arrested for forcing two young boys to undress at gunpoint and then perform his usual methods on them. Disturbed by the claims, authorities ordered that Rice be held temporarily at the Metropolitan State Hospital for a psychological evaluation, but he managed to escape on February 16, fleeing to Hollywood, Florida.

On May 12, 1968, Rice finished work at the car wash and then traveled to a pond in rural Broward County, where he knew young boys loved to gather. There he found 11-year-old Lowell 'Nelson' Williams and 10-year-old Kevin Polittle, who were out fishing together. Rice then approached and chatted with them for some time before offering to take them someplace else, but the boys refused. Angered by their refusal, Rice took out a sawed-off shotgun and fired upon them, wounding both. He then took out his knife and went to Williams, whom he proceeded to stab three times, killing him.

On June 10, 1966, 8-year-old Tim 'Timmy' Trask left his home in Findlay, Ohio and hopped on his bike, intent on going fishing near the Blanchard River. Along the way, he came across Rice, who offered to accompany him. When they were left alone, Rice proceeded to beat and then rape Trask, before stabbing him twice and shooting him once in the chest with a shotgun. He then covered the body with a pile of wood and left the area.

On July 12, 1963, nine-year-old Keith Henry was reported missing from his home in Waterloo, Ontario. His disappearance led to a large-scale investigation of the nearby area by both local authorities and volunteers, but the searches turned up nothing. The searches were eventually discontinued, and a $1,000 reward was announced for anyone who could provide information about his whereabouts. Henry's mother even requested help from purported clairvoyants, but the boy's body was never found.

In March 1957, Rice and his parents moved to Nichol Township, a small township near the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario, Canada, where he attended the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School. During his period, he developed a fascination with rockets and bombs, and would continued to get in trouble with law enforcement for a variety of crimes. In one of his prison stints, Rice wrote that he had convinced a fellow inmate to hang himself by claiming that a friend of his was planning to kill him. After his release on November 28, 1961, he would avoid trouble with the police most of the time, but Rice would also begin his attempts to sexually molest young boys.

In an attempt to cure him of his apparent fear of loud noises, Rice's father started firing guns in his presence, which seemingly helped the boy overcome it. Not long after, Rice developed a fascination with firearms, and would start stealing ammo from shops to fire it. At the same time, his continued to commit various acts of vandalism and thefts, receiving his first court date at age 11 for stealing ammo, for which he was put on probation. In February 1955, he was kicked out of a private school in Staatsburg, New York for vandalism, and would continue to commit similar crimes for the following years. In 1959, he was convicted of stealing an automobile and detained at a juvenile correctional facility for six months.

According to later interviews, Rice's first sexual experience occurred at age nine, when he was molested by an older man at a barn near a railroad crossing. In the summer of 1955, while at the Lyman School for Boys, he wrote in his diary that he was forced to engage in sexual acts with other boys, and that was when he started to exhibit odd sexual behavior. Over the next few years, he started developing a sexual fascination with blood and seeing young boys defecate, but restrained himself from inflicting harm on others. He would write down his thoughts and feelings about this in his personal diary, which he had kept since he was a young boy.

Stanley Everett Rice (August 7, 1942 – November 3, 2007) was an American serial killer and child rapist who was responsible for sexually abusing numerous underage boys in Canada and the U.S. during the 1960s, of which he killed at least three. Tried and convicted for one murder committed in Florida, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and remained incarcerated until his death in 2007.

Stanley Everett Rice was born on August 7, 1942, in Concord, Massachusetts, the younger of two children. He was raised in a dysfunctional home with abusive parents, but was nonetheless close to his elder sister. According to acquaintances, Rice was considered a nervous, quiet boy who was very polite to those around him, and whom stuttered when he was under pressure or excited. Unbeknownst to most, however, he started to exhibit strange behavior since the age of five, when he started burning newspapers in the family cellar. Just a month after this incident, Rice proceeded to light a fire under an oil tank in that same cellar, and for the following years, he would start stealing various from family members.