On September 12, 1951, Paul Zeininger was born in Schenectady, New York, the last of five children. Three of the children born before him had already been given up for adoption. The fourth was a baby girl who had suffered severe brain damage and was the only one their mother would choose to keep. Ms Zeininger was so neglectful that when he was six months old and she gave him up, the doctors declared the baby unadoptable. He was functioning on such an animalistic level that he was injecting his own feces to survive. He was eventually taken in by a couple with the last name of Stano.
The couple had been unable to have their own children and were desperate to adopt a baby boy. Eugene was a corporate manager and Norma was a county social worker. The deplorable condition of baby Paul pulled at Norma's heart strings, especially when the Stanos were told that the agency was having a difficult time placing such a neglected and malnourished child. The couple would not be denied their opportunity to provide a good home for this poor child. They adopted him and renamed him Gerald Eugene.
Even though it appeared that Gerald's home with the Stanos was loving, the boy had behavioral and disciplinary issues throughout his young life. He suffered through enuresis until the age of 10. He was always emotionally distant and withdrawn. Gerald had trouble dealing with his peers and became a loner. He was targeted by the usual bullies and had no luck with the young ladies, who frequently told jokes about him.
Music was the only subject in which he excelled at school. Gerald was a compulsive liar who was consumed with exaggerating his performance in activities to make himself appear less inadequate than he felt. In the 1960s, he was arrested after sounding a false alarm and a second time for throwing rocks at cars on the highway from an overpass. His parents were told that he would be sent to juvenile detention if he stepped out of line again.
Gerald was then enrolled in a military school, where his behavior seemed only to continue down the usual path. Even after the family moved to Pennsylvania, his behavior accelerated. He stole from other students and skipped school perpetually. He even stole money from his father to pay track team members to lag behind him so Gerald wouldn't finish last. He did not graduate high school until he was 21 years old.
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