Cary Stayner was a friendly, polite, blond and athletic-looking young man, the FBI investigators ruled out that he was a serial killer. He was sentenced to death and has been waiting for the end of his days for 18 years.
Cary Stayner was a kind young man, always willing to help others; A young blond, handsome and athletic looking. He liked to enjoy outdoor activities and it was fun, no one suspected the monster inside and that since he was seven years old I dreamed of raping and killing women.
He always carried a backpack, authorities said it was the “murder kit”, he carried it all the time because he didn’t know when he was going to be presented with the opportunity to fulfill his heinous fantasy.
The potential victims were his girlfriend and two daughters aged 8 and 11. He confessed that he planned to rape the little ones and then kill them, the day he committed the crime his plan fell apart because an unexpected visit came.
That detail made him think that it was better to look for unknown women and began to pay more attention to the women who visited the Cedar Lodge Hotel, the place where he worked.
In 1998 he tried with two young Finns, but had to run when a companion appeared.
Then, on February 14, 1999, Valentine’s Day, 12-year-old Aerin Murphy, her sister and two friends went to have fun at the Cedar Lodge hotel jacuzzi. When they entered the water, a young man with a lot of hair on his chest was already there … It was Cary Stayner who watched them carefully. After a while he discovered that they were accompanied by a man: Bill Murphy, the father of the sisters. They escaped, without knowing it, from a horrendous destiny.
Apparently, three was Stayner’s number because on February 15 He chose three other victims: Carole Sund, 42, her daughter Juli, 15, and Argentina’s Silvina Pelosso, 16. He had seen them in the lobby, at night he stalked them from the darkness, in that desolate mountain hotel.
“I was walking around and I saw a red car alone, I parked in front of the room. The bedroom curtain was open and I watched two young women and the mother. There was no man there, ”Stayner said in the confession recorded in 1999 when he was captured and interrogated.
He knocked on the door of the cabin, as always accompanied by the backpack, where he kept a rope, a large knife, a roll of duct tape and a revolver.
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Carole, Juli and Silvina had left Eureka for San Francisco on Sunday, February 14. They had rented a red Pontiac Grand Prix car. They arrived at Yosemite Park where they registered at the Cedar Lodge, a hotel in the middle of forests and mountains.
That day they went for a walk, they returned to eat hamburgers in the hotel restaurant and rented a couple of movies. Carole spoke to her husband, Jens Sund to tell her that they had arrived well, That was the last time he was heard alive.
Stayne knocked on the door at 8:00 p.m., the victims saw a handsome young man with short blond hair. He wore a work romper, identified himself as a hotel employee and apologized for bothering so late. He said the bathroom spout upstairs was broken and repair was urgent. Carole after doubting, accepted and let him in.
At that time Stayner was 37 years old and did not look like the psycho he was or the murderer he was about to become. He confessed to the police that he was in the bathroom for a few minutes pretending to work, then came out with a revolver, pointed them out and told them he just wanted to rob them.
He tied them up and separated them, then locked the two teenage girls in the bathroom and strangled Carole with the rope. He said it took him five minutes and he was surprised at how difficult it could be to suffocate someone. Further, He stated coldly that with that crime “I felt nothing.”
He took Carole’s body out of the room and dragged him into the trunk of the red Pontiac Grand Prix. He returned to the room and took the teenagers out of the bathroom. He tore the clothes from the pulls and demanded that the teenagers have relations with each other, given the refusal of the teenagers and the difficulty in maintaining an erection eventually irritated him.
He took Silvina to the bathroom and closed the door. He made her kneel in the bathtub, raped her and hanged her. He returned to the bed where Juli was tied and he also raped her, besides forcing her to practice oral sex. He took her to a room where he left her tied and went to clean the crime scene. He took Silvina’s body to the vehicle and placed it next to Carole’s body.
“When I took the body of the girl to the car there I felt that, for the first time in my life, I was in control,” Stayner told the FBI investigators.
He left some wet towels in the bathroom as if he had bathed, put the belongings of the victims in the bags and put them in the car. I wanted to give the feeling that they had left. He returned to the room where Juli was, wrapped her in a blanket and took her to the car.
The girl kept calm, wanted to live. He told her his name was Sarah and for the entire time Stayner drove aimlessly he showed that she was calm. The calm she showed almost makes Stayner give up killing her, but His perverse criminal instinct was stronger.
“I didn’t know where I was going or what I was doing. He simply drove and drove. I started to have sympathy for the girl. She was a very nice girl and she was very calm … I didn’t want her to suffer like the others, but I know she suffered, ”he said.
They arrived at Don Pedro Lake and had her get out of the car. He raped her, combed her hair and told her he loved her. Then he asked her to lie on her stomach on the blanket. He took out his knife and opened his neck mercilessly. It took 20 seconds to bleed to death, meanwhile he looked away to avoid the scene, according to the story.
He left the body among the bushes and wrapped in sheets and continued driving to a forest, there he threw the car down a cliff, but a pine stopped his fall.
Stayner called a radio taxi and after an hour and a half arrived at the hotel where he works. Two days later he returned to the car and sprayed it with gasoline and burned it. Before he had taken Carole’s wallet and threw it into the town of Modesto. He did it to mislead the police who were already looking for Three missing women.
Authorities had first handled the hypothesis of an accident with the car, but when a young man found Carole’s wallet in Modesto all those theories fell. They began to think about a rapture.
Cary Stayner was one of the first to be questioned. He lived alone in a hotel room. He seemed frank and was a good worker, a collaborating employee who helped them collect the evidence and opened the dormitories in the search for data. He was immediately removed from the list of suspects.
A month later an anonymous call gave them a clue: he told them where to locate the red Pontiac reduced to scrap. On Sunday March 21 they found him 90 kilometers away. On the hood they found a sentence written with a razor: “We have Sarah.”
Again Cary Stayner tried to distract them. Inside the trunk were the bodies of Carole and Silvina. Their identities were recognized by dental records. But Juli’s body was not there.
Six days later the police received a note (Stayner became bolder and bolder) with a map that revealed where the third body was. That note said: “We had fun with this one.”
They found Juli Sund, who It had been raped and slaughtered. The FBI was disoriented. The terrible murderer guided them in their blindness and they could not identify him.
The aesthetic prejudice about how a murderer should look flew over the investigation from the beginning. James Maddock, director of the Sacramento, California delegation of the FBI, was also a victim of it. Cary Stayner was interrogated twice. Nobody was struck by the pleasant and calm employee. He tied them. He gagged them and separated them.
In July of that same year Stayner murdered his fourth victim. She was Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26, a naturalist who worked with educational programs in Yosemite.
Joie was preparing to make a trip with her friends when he entered the cabin, threatened her with a gun and tied her with tape. Then he got her into her blue car, on the way she threw herself out the car window and started running. He managed to reach her, rape her and beheaded her.
A witness saw Stayner’s car outside the cabin and investigators were able to identify tire wheel tracks on the road. That’s how they got to Stayner.
He confessed the four crimes with luxury of details in two hours, everything was recorded. In addition, he revealed the plans he had with his girlfriend and two daughters. He assured that He tried to kill them three times.
“I like to look at pictures of little girls, (…) it’s ironic because I love life so much and being with my friends marveling at nature… and the next minute is like I can kill everyone on the face of the earth (… ) That tortures me, comes and goes. Like a tennis match. ”
Psychiatrists who evaluated Stayner revealed that there were mental illnesses and sexual abuse in his family for five generations. It was also learned from them that at 3 years Cary Stayner had been diagnosed with trichotillomania, the obsessive compulsive disease that leads to tearing off her hair. At 7, he had presented the first violent sexual fantasy while he waited for his parents at the greengrocer: he dreamed of kidnapping the cashiers and killing them. At 12 he dreamed of women raped in a pack. Medical reports said his brain had abnormalities that were consistent with schizophrenia, psychotic disorder, paraphilia and obsessive compulsive disorders.
Stayner came from a totally dysfunctional family with a long history of sexual abuse and mental illness. At 11, his uncle abused him, but no one believed him and the rape could not be proven.
In 1991 he attempted suicide, in 1995 he was admitted to a psychiatric institution and in 1997 he was arrested for possession of marijuana and methamphetamines.
Stayner was sentenced to death. He has been waiting for his final day in San Quentin Prison, California for 18 years
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