Offren hotades med vapen, bands med silvertejp och ströps. Offren var Juli 15 år, hennes mamma Carol 42 år samt Silvana 16 år. En tid senare mördas Joie 26 år.
Stayner arbetade som hantverkare.
Intervjuades som anställd, var lugn under intervju, ostraffad och inledningsvis inte misstänkt.
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One of those employees was Cary Stayner, but he was not considered a suspect at that point because he had no criminal history and remained calm during the police interview.
37 år vid morddebut. Drömt om att döda i 30 år. Planerade sexöverfall och mord innan,som dock misslyckades, och han stalkade på sin arbetsplats. Dagen innan försöker han slå till.
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Then on February 14, 1999 -- Valentine's Day -- he stalked four young girls staying at Cedar Lodge, the motel outside Yosemite's south entrance where he worked off and on doing maintenance. He again backed off because they were accompanied by a man. The next night, Stayner decided on Carole Sund and her two teenage charges after spying them through their window at the lodge.
Han lurade dem på arbetsplatsen och sa att han skulle fixa en vattenläcka. Han hade med sig en verktygslåda med kniv, pistol, rep och silvertejp. Väl inne lurade han dem att det var ett rån.
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"..saying he had to fix the fan in the bathroom. Once inside, he pulled a .22-caliber pistol, told them he was "desperate," and ordered Carole Sund, 42, her daughter Juli, 15, and Silvina Pelosso, 16, to lie face down on their beds. After binding their hands with duct tape and gagging them, he took the two girls into the bathroom.
Han band och ströp offren, utförde sexövergrepp.
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He first strangled Sund with a 3-foot piece of rope, taking five minutes. "I didn't realize how hard it is to strangle a person," Stayner said on the taped confession. "It's not easy. I had very little feeling. It was like performing a task." After stuffing Sund into the trunk of her rented Pontiac Grand Prix, Stayner ripped and cut the clothes off the two girls.
Han la dem i bilen och städade brottsplatsen - detta hade han studerat via Discovery channel. Han la ena offret i en filt i deras bil.
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"It felt like I was in control for the first time in my life," Stayner said on the tape.
An FBI agent asked on the tape why he did that, and he replied: "I watch the Discovery Channel."
At about 4 a.m. Stayner wrapped Juli, naked, in a pink, motel blanket and drove away in their rental car with her bound in the passenger seat. "I didn't know where I was going or what I was doing," he said on the tape. "I just kept driving and driving."
Slutligen dödar han henne och lämnar liken i bilens bagage, återvänder sen och tänder på med bensin. Han placerar ut offrets plånbok åt ett annat håll för att förvirra polisen.
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After hiding her body in the thicket he drove the car -- with the bodies of Carole Sund and Silvina Pelosso in the trunk -- as far as he could into the forest.
Two days later he returned to the car with a can of gasoline.
Ett massivt sökpådrag startar efter offren.
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After a massive search-and-rescue team working around the clock in a 30-mile radius failed to find anyone, agent James Maddock, now placed in charge of the investigation, told the press, "We feel almost certain that the women were victims of a violent crime."
När offren hittas drygt en månad senare i den utbrända bilen kartläggas mängder av suspekta personer och mördaren anses ha god lokal kännedom om trakten. Endast en sådan kunde känna till vägen där bilen hittas.
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The police figured that the killer of the three women was someone familiar with the county
More so, opined the FBI, only a native would have been aware of the out-of-the-way site where the car, with its grisly contents, was eventually abandoned.
Others, too, had been questioned in the slayings -- more routine than anything -and released. One of these was a man named Cary Stayner, clean cut, no record of violence, and was in the employment of Cedar Lodge as its handyman.
Ytterligare en kvinna mördas som är anställd i parken. Stayner plockas in till förhör igen. Han är irriterad efteråt över detta. Senare genomsöks hans lägenhet och man finner spår som kan kopplas till morden.
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"(A witness claimed that) Stayner was angry about authorities seizing his backpack after he was questioned earlier that day. He was also angry about how his truck had been searched."
Hon anländer vid 20-tiden till parken. Han kör fram bilen och börjar artigt konversera med henne om hon tror på Big Foot. Han överfaller henne ute vid bilen, hotar henne med vapen och binder henne i stugan med rep och silvertejp.
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"Stayner said he thought he had gotten away with the earlier crimes, but could not resist the urge to kill Armstrong after he struck up a chance conversation with her..."
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According to his confession, Stayner stepped out of his vehicle, approached Armstrong's pickup truck, and said hello.
Stayner apparently attempted to put the wary young woman at ease by asking if she had ever seen Bigfoot in the area, adding that he had once spotted the creature in the fields just beyond her cabin. When he realized Armstrong was alone, he pulled a gun and ordered her inside the cabin, where he bound her hands and gagged her with duct tape. Then he ordered her back outside. In the gathering darkness, he shoved her into the front seat of his Scout and began to drive back up the road.
http://www.outsideonline.com/1889286/yosemite-horror
Varför misstänkte ingen denna anställda hantverkare?
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Billed as "Mr. Nice Guy"
"He would have been the furthest of suspects in the locals' minds."
If that comment made by Cedar Lodge restaurant manager Kathy Hefner sounds unforgivably naïve, read further. Most of Stayner's coworkers would probably say they fully understand why he had fooled the FBI as long as he did. He just wasn't the killer type, not a troublemaker, not a wise guy, never violent. His only encounter with the law was for marijuana use in 1997.
The relatively quiet but friendly motel handyman's only passions seemed to be nude sunbathing and hiking. On days off he would escape to Laguna Del Sol, a nudist colony in Sacramento County. Despite this sensual surrender, he never behaved lewdly nor perversely.
Management found him a hard-worker and honest. In his capacity, Stayner performed technical and housekeeping duties, everything from fixing electrical and mechanical breakdowns to delivering extra towels and bedding to guests.
Sandy Cox, whose husband owned the window company where Stayner worked for in Atwater, says, "We've known Cary since he was a little boy...It just doesn't match up. Out of respect for his family and the victim's family, we don't want to say anymore."
Efteråt uppstår spekulationer kring hur en enda man kunde utföra dådet mot tre personer samtidigt.
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Stayner did act alone, with the help of only a weapon. "Stayner," says the source, "used a gun after gaining entry to the motel room of the Sunds and Pelosso, and tied them up."
Inledningsvis nekar Stayner.
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FBI Special Agent (SA) Marcee Robinson in support of a search warrant for blood, hair and saliva samples from Cary Stayner, further details were presented about the murders in Yosemite. In this official file, which was requested by the state of California, it is made clear that Stayner, despite earlier denials, sexually assaulted two of his victims, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso.
Senare, angående sista offret, hittas bland annat blodspår. Han tros ha skurit sig i ett finger.
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The FBI also seized clothing stained with blood from Joie Armsttrong's body. Although most of the stains are likely to include Armstrong's blood, Stayner was observed to have a laceration on his hand during his interrogation, and therefore may have been cut and bled during the attack.
Other objects of evidence are being examined in the interim. These include the knives Stayner claimed to have used to kill Juli Sund and Joie Armstrong, pieces of duct tape from Armstrong's house, and a blanket Stayner said he wrapped around the Sund teen.
Two vials of Stayner's blood, as well as 25 samples of Stayner's head and pubic hair, saliva and fingerprints, are scheduled for testing against trace evidence in the Fresno County Jail in the presence of law enforcement officials.
http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stayner-cary.htm
Avrundar med följande ord från Gina som förlorade sin mamma och syster:
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"‘Deep in my heart I know something my mind does not want to learn,’ said Gina,13. ‘I try to stay strong because I know that’s what you’d want your baby to be, but, Mommy, I don’t want you to leave me.’"
http://aboutserialkillers.blogspot.se/2012/08/the-story-of-cary-stayner-yosemite.html
