The Heartbreaking Story of Stephanie Scott Murdered by a Monster

Back in 2015, Australia was hit with this shocking news about Stephanie. It’s really messed up — she got kidnapped, beaten up, raped, stabbed, and even burned by this guy Vincent Stanford. He was a cleaner at the high school in this small place called NSW Riverina.

What’s even crazier is that Stephanie was just 26 years old and was about to marry her high school sweetheart, Aaron Leeson-Woolley, like only six days after she disappeared.

Imagine, this town Leeton, with just around 11,000 people, was used to just minor stuff like property vandalism. But now, with this horrifying crime, things have totally changed. Stephanie was this young woman with a bright future and a million-dollar smile, and she was taken away in such a brutal way.

So, during the trial and all that legal stuff, they found out that Stanford, who was 25 at the time, had been stalking women in the town before he did this to Stephanie. He saw her at the school, cleaning, and then planned this messed up attack. He even had a term for it, calling it a “rape kit.” He bumped into her, said Happy Easter, but then grabbed her and did all this horrible stuff in the school’s storeroom.

When Stephanie didn’t come back home on Easter Sunday, her family freaked out, obviously. They knew she wouldn’t just bail on her fiancé like that. They teamed up with the cops, searched everywhere, while this Stanford guy took her car with her body and hid it at his place.