Ebook: Murder At Yosemite
Author: Stayner Cary, Smith Carlton
- Tags: Serial murders--California--Yosemite National Park, Serial murders, Case studies, Stayner Cary -- 1961-, Serial murders -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Case studies, California -- Yosemite National Park
- Series: St. Martin's true crime library
- Year: 1999
- Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
- City: New York;N.Y;California;Yosemite National Park
- Edition: St. Martin's paperbacks ed
- Language: English
- epub
Amidst the breathtaking natural beauty of Yosemite National Park, four terrifying killings took place. For months, law enforcement officials were stumped by the deaths of three tourists: Carole Sund, her teenaged daughter Juli, and a family friend, Silvina Pelosso. But when they found the decapitated body and head of 26-year-old naturalist Joie Ruth Armstrong, they were led to one man: 37-year-old handyman Cary Stayner.
Stayner was arrested at a California nudist colony and soon admitted to all four killings, claiming he'd had urges to kill women for thirty years. And Cary's twisted impulses were not the only tragedy of the Stayner family. At the age of seven, his younger brother Steven was abducted by a pedophile and forced to live with the man for seven years, until he escaped. His story was told in a TV movie called "I Know My First Name is Steven." Steven would ultimately die in a motorcycle crash at twenty-four.
What are the odds of one family suffering such...