Daughter Testifies Father Had Hit List of Victims : Courts: Woman says she was among targets mentioned by Douglas Stanley, on trial for killing sister-in-law, co-worker.

A father and daughter each shed tears in a courtroom Wednesday, he as he sat accused of killing two women and she as she testified against him.

Douglas Stanley, 58, blotted his eyes with tissue as his 23-year-old daughter, Lisa, told jurors her father told her he had compiled a list of people he wanted to kill, including her and the two women her father allegedly gunned down in July, 1993.

Stanley faces life in prison without parole if convicted of killing his sister-in-law Joyce Stanley, 52, and Terry Vasquez, 41, as the three worked together in a Fountain Valley embroidery shop. Stanley admits killing the women, but contends he was suffering a form of amnesia at the time and was unaware of his actions.

The stress of the testimony in Orange County Superior Court was evident. The daughter’s eyes were rimmed in red and her voice quavered as she recalled a confrontation during which her father ticked off the names on the list, which included her name and those of the victims.

When asked what she understood the list to mean, the young woman answered quietly: “That he wanted to end their lives.”

The father and daughter are estranged. The prosecution contends Stanley killed the women in part because he blamed his sister-in-law for his troubled relationship with his daughter. Joyce Stanley and her husband, Charles--the defendant’s brother--sought guardianship of the daughter because the defendant moved frequently to find work.

The defendant has been described as a “survivalist” who collected guns and often threatened to kill those who angered him. His threats were so frequent that few took him seriously. After the July 8 killings, he fled to Colorado, sparking a nationwide manhunt.

He was captured July 11 after a law enforcement officer became suspicious and began questioning him. Stanley was arrested when a gun slipped out of a pant leg while he was talking to the officer.

Deputy Public Defender Denise Gragg said during opening statements Tuesday that her client was suffering from amnesia triggered by stress and severe heart problems when he “went off” and killed the women. Gragg said her client did not premeditate the killings, a factor needed to help prove first-degree murder.

But Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert Molko told jurors Stanley bragged to a friend that he planned to commit the murders and withdrew money from the bank shortly before the killings, apparently to help fund his getaway.