On March 21, 1973 the bodies of 17-year-old Ann Eugenia Arceneaux and 19-year-old Janine Marie Ligotino were found in a vacant lot in Gainesville, Florida. Both young women had been stabbed to death. Ann Arceneaux was a white female originally from New York who was residing in Gainesville at the time.

The murders shocked the local community. Investigators later linked the killings to Gerald Eugene Stano, who confessed to both murders during a series of confessions in the early 1980s and was later convicted for them. The killings are part of a larger pattern of violence attributed to Stano across multiple states.