Cary always wore a hat because he was compulsively pulling his hair out. But unbeknownst to them, the real killer, Cary Stayner, was still working at Cedar Lodge, living on the premises and was an active member of the community. It proved to be a great place for him to get his head on straight. Stayner eventually brought Rinek and Boles to the places he discussed during his confession and the evidence they would be able to find there. Stayner was already serving a life sentence for the murder of Joie Ruth Armstrong. By the end of that evening, the FBI felt it had gathered enough evidence to arrest Cary Stayner for murder, Sunday morning, they rushed him to Fresno to officially lodge a complaint, then to Sacramento on Monday where he was put before the courts. Include gps location with grave photos where possible. Steven Stayner testifies about his abduction in 1972 by Kenneth Parnell and his seven years in captivity in this 1981 photo. GREAT NEWS! Stayner is suspected in the killings of Julie Sund, left, and Silvina Pelosso FBI agents had questioned Stayner after. What were your feelings? The FBI has also called Stayner the prime suspect in the murders of three Yosemite sightseers who disappeared in February. Things to do in Napa Valley during Bottlerock, plus hotels, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Failed to report flower. Unofficially, Jens Sund offered a $250,000 reward for information that would lead to the return of the missing women. The brothers, four years apart in age, shared a room, but didnt get along, Steven didn't understand the rules that he was now expected to live by. July 21stJoie Ruth Armstrong is decapitated after Cary ties her up and rapes her. The Stayner family was made up of two brothers, three sisters, and parents Kay and Delbert. And we think that fun means something of a sexual nature thats not good for the victim," former FBI agent Jeff Rinek told ABC News. Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites. The bodies of Carole Sund and Pelosso were later found burned beyond recognition in the trunk of Carole Sunds rental car. Convicted in 1978 for rape and robbery, he was jailed on March 14 for failing to register as a sex offender. I guess in the end, if my familys proud of me, Im okay. Park rangers found the body of Joie Ruth Armstrong about 4 miles from Cedar Lodge, where Stayner had worked August 6, 1999 Web posted at: 9:18 a.m. EDT (1318 GMT) Joie Ruth Armstrong had been working for the Yosemite Institute for the past year and had worked on education programs through a partnership with the National Park Service. He went on TV, spoke to newspapers, and even had a book and miniseries about his time as a sex slave of drifter and pedophile, Kenneth Parnell, a man who incidentally also used to work at the Yosemite Lodge. Correspondent Don Knapp contributed to this report, Co-workers say Yosemite suspect not known for violence, FBI arrests motel worker in Yosemite murder, FBI questions man after Yosemite naturalist slain, Slain Yosemite visitors fund offers reward in other death, All 3 missing Yosemite sighteers identified, officials say, Yosemite Online : The Yosemite Association. The suspect, Cary Stayner, 37, had been one of the people questioned after the triple killings in February, but, at that time no evidence linked him directly to the crime and he had been released. ). Stayner caught the attention of park rangers again last week after his sport utility vehicle was seen near Armstrong's residence on Wednesday night, an hour after she was last seen there. At a press conference outside the Stayner house, everyone was smiling, but Cary in his baseball cap wasnt smiling at all. Upon examination by the FBI Laboratory, some items have yielded trace evidence. At the time Juli Sund's body was found, six days after the discovery of the two other victims, the authorities said only that they had been led to the body by a tip. 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He paid a local kid to ride with him to the town of Ukiah, California and he told to go and find him a boy. How frightened the girls must have been when he cut their clothes off.. Concluding the interview, he addressed the victims' families: "I am sorry their loved ones were where they were when they were. Yosemite West, Mariposa County, California, USA. Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26, was found Thursday near a stream. Steven Stayner died in a motorcycle accident in 1989 at the age of 24, and not long after, Steven and Carys uncle, whom Cary was close with and living with at the time, was killed. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print. The next day, a tip was called into park rangers about a car spotted near Armstrongs cabin. They said he was cooperative and agreed to talk with them. The Stayners put up billboards, passed out leaflets, and even consulted psychics to find him to no avail. Soon after, he confessed to murdering Carole Sund, Juli Sund, and Silvina Pelosso once in custody. "Had we not gotten Stayner, they could've been next," said Boles. There was a dramatic period of silence after Rinek invited Stayner to continue opening up, Rinek said. Rinek believes that was an attempt by Stayner to control what the agents were thinking of him. More than a thousand leads, they confessed, produced nothing. What followed turned out to be one of the most shocking crimes in both National Park and American history, involving a man whose family had already been involved in a notorious crime, literally the two faces of evil. Carole and her husband, Jens, 43, owned a realtors business in the Stockton area. She had probably been murdered on the evening of Wednesday, July 21. Learn more about merges. 6. "Everybody thought it was over with the other case," said a cashier at Cedar Lodge, the El Portal motel-restaurant where Carole Sund, her daughter Juli, and family friend Silvina Pelosso from Argentina were last seen alive in February. Watch the full story on "20/20" FRIDAY, Jan. 25 at 10 p.m. They called police when she didnt show up to meet up with them as planned. "She stepped up on the porch and she was talking to me and she turned. Parnell was convicted on kidnapping and false imprisonment charges. You can customize the cemeteries you volunteer for by selecting or deselecting below. How could something so inhuman happen someplace so idyllic and far from the corruption of modern society? By the time Steven was 14, he had been abused and manipulated by Parnell for seven years and Parnell and Steven together realized that Steven was growing up and that he was no longer going to be controlled by Parnell and they would need to find someone else that they could sexually abuse. The prosecution team was headed by George Williamson and the defense team was headed by Marcia Morrissey. YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK - Joie Armstrong's grieving family and friends returned to her cabin here for the first time since she was brutally slain and beheaded. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. "Now, we had been going through, not details, but the emotional impact this had on him. At the time of the murders of Carole Sund, Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso, investigators didnt see him as a suspect, and he even opened rooms at the motel for the FBI to gather evidence. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. It was the worst and best moment of my career," Rinek said. It was then that Steven's nightmare began as Murphy brought him to Kenneth Parnell, a known pedophile. cemeteries found in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, USA will be saved to your photo volunteer list. Rangers found her body at about 1 p.m. Thursday near the living quarters she shared with a man and a woman at employee housing units just west of the Crane Flat campground. Darrell Gray Stephens, 55, Strange's roommate. < Dubs fans picking apart video of possible Poole-Draymond incident, Destructive landslide closes historic California institution, Bay Area mom influencer found guilty of lying about kidnapping, More rain, 'unseasonably chilly' temperatures coming to Bay Area, Horoscope for Monday, 5/01/23 by Christopher Renstrom, Bay Area preschool teacher suspected of dumping body along road, 49ers out in full force at Warriors-Kings Game 7, Shock, fear as 2 killings in 3 days rock quiet Davis, Sold-out Berkeley crowd gets rowdy at country star's concert, Steph Curry killed off the Kings with a smile, Draymond Green rips Domantas Sabonis: 'Lost a lot of respect', Klay Thompson calls Warriors-Lakers series 'a dream come true'. Joie Armstrong and her grandmother had grown extremely close since Leslie Armstrong was diagnosed with cancer in April, said family friend Anita Ham. After first flying to San Francisco, where Carole rented a red 1999 Pontiac Gran Prix, they stopped in Stockton, where Juli took part in a cheerleading contest at the University of the Pacific. This account has been disabled. Your account has been locked for 30 minutes due to too many failed sign in attempts. Weve updated the security on the site. It shows Vista Point. You know what I mean? Found more than one record for entered Email, You need to confirm this account before you can sign in. Joie Armstrong, a NatureBridge educator at Yosemite National Park in 1999, was a bright light to all who knew her. The deranged woman-hating lunatic responsible turned out to be Cedar Lodge's handyman Cary Stayner. As a naturalist, her job . He realizes its not much, but its all he can offer. "Her mother, sisters, and a family friend had been missing for a month by the time Gina Sund read her poem in front of a thousand or so people who gathered in Modesto," writes Time. Thanks for using Find a Grave, if you have any feedback we would love to hear from you. What did she see?' "My wife Lori and I, were at our best when were helping people, and we dont necessarily decide who were going to help and who were not going to help.". FBI agents swarmed into the valley after the body was found, a scene familiar to many agents who were still working on the kidnap-murders of a Eureka mother and daughter and their friend earlier this year. Parnell was convicted on kidnapping and false imprisonment charges. Silvina Pelossos mother, Raquel, said, I just cannot understand how so many peopledidn't realize that maybe (Stayner) was the man since I heard that he was interviewed some time ago. But, to no avail. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Joie Armstrong (6753355)? On February 15, the ladies hiked into Yosemite National Park on one of the many trails. Stayners father, Delbert Stayner, said his son was deprived of a fair trial by a kangaroo court and a judge who ignored defense arguments. In Yosemite, Leslie Armstrong of Orlando, Fla., reflected on the shock of the past week. Try again later. He denied any role in the Yosemite slayings. Joie Ruth Armstrong was one of my dearest friends. Police found her car in front of her cabin, packed for the trip. In May 2002, Stayner pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1999 murder of Pelosso and the Sunds. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Search above to list available cemeteries. "As soon as it got light (Thursday), we were able to begin mounting a search where her residence is," National Park Service spokesman Kendell Thompson said. Listen to Yosemite serial killer's never-before-broadcast confession tapes, "It seemed like she was alone. Armstrong, a naturalist at the Yosemite Institute, was slain near her Yosemite cabin last Wednesday. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. Neither the head nor the murderer has ever been found. Perhaps it allowed him to escape from the mundaneness of his own life. Knives were used in the slayings and the weapon suspected in Ms. Armstrong's death was recovered.". Stayner, from Merced, California, was the older brother of Steven Stayner, who had been kidnapped at 7 years old in 1972, and forced to live with his captor Kenneth Parnell, who sexually assaulted the young boy over the next seven years. Although most of the stains were 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. His distraught parents undertook a veritable quest to find him. Then all of a sudden it's gone. It was badly decomposed and her throat had been cut. 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. When Steven didnt return from school that afternoon, his parents sounded the alarm. He had done this before in the past, helped lost hikers find their way, but todays journey would prove to be very different and much more unnerving. He was sentenced to seven years in prison but only served five -- less time than he held Steven captive. After Steven said his mother would be interested in donating, Murphy offered to take the boy home. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. Former FBI Agent Jeff Rinek recalls the moments Cary Stayner approached 26-year-old Joie Armstrong at her cabin in an area of Yosemite National Park in 1999. They began searching the area. Make sure that the file is a photo. He died in jail in 2008 at the age of 76. Then in July, a teacher at the Yosemite Institute, Joie Ruth Armstrong, went missing. The FBI pushed for Strange's arrest, but he denied any part in the triple murders. Management found him a hard worker and honest. Local police and Yosemite Park Rangers began to search the area where the missing three were last seen. Campbell, when first arrested on mail fraud charges, had in her possession Carole Sund's checking account and automated teller machine numbers. For two weeks, Steven watched Timothy suffer the separation from his family. Rinek feels the car ride was truly pivotal in terms of bonding with Stayner, as he believes Stayner was searching for intimacy and somehow found it with Rinek during that conversation. The issue of whether his confession was coerced seemed to be resolved when on July 24, the court heard the recorded demands that Stayner made to the FBI agents that he wanted to be satisfied before he would give them his confession. Through the media, authorities alerted the public to be on the lookout for Stayner. Cary Stayner is led into a van by a U.S. "The girl I was seeing and her daughters were my original intended targets.". He recalled the abducted tourists case in sharp detail. July 26, 1999 I was at a girlfriend's house, and I guess it's this girlfriend and her two daughters that were my original intended victims," Stayner told the agents during his interrogation. Five months earlier, Kidd had become involved in the search for three missing female tourists who had vanished from their room at the Cedar Lodge, a hotel at Yosemites entrance. The evidence gathered by the FBI indicated that they had been abducted from the Cedar Lodge and with the discovery of Caroles burned-out Pontiac a month later, the truth finally emerged. Looking into his past, the FBI soon discovered that Staynors own family tragedy had transformed him into a violent predator. FBI agents have wondered whether they could have prevented Armstrong's murder by linking Stayner to the three earlier killings. By the end of the car ride, Rinek had developed a connection with Cary Stayner. They decided to take him in again after learning on Friday that he had failed to show up to work at the Cedar Lodge. A lot of people want to believe he was that way. Now, 26-year-old Joie Ruth Armstrong was missing. There, they got a room with a plan to stay for a few days. Stayner also is a suspect in the killings of Carole Sund, 42, her 15-year old daughter Julie, and Silvina Pelosso, a 16-year old exchange student from Argentina. Im just horrified when I think of what happened in that room, what my daughter felt when she realized she was in serious trouble, said Carole Carrington as she asked the judge to sentence Stayner to death. When Steven Stayner was 14, Parnell got a local kid to help him kidnap another child, 5-year-old Timmy White. Joie Ruth Armstrong's decapitated body was found in July 1999 close to Yosemite. This is a carousel with slides. It was 100 miles from the Cedar Lodge. Over the next few weeks, a task force including FBI agents and law enforcers from four surrounding counties, arrested several known sex offenders, drug users, and ex-convicts with a record of violence from within a 75-square-mile area between Modesto and Sonoma. Her slaying was a federal case because her body was found in the national park. You could see that he wanted to play and be with kids and be normal. "Its difficult for me to picture what Cary has done and knowing Steve because their personalities are completely opposite," Duke, Stevens former girlfriend, said. Trending. Unfortunately, those three girls had been found brutally murdered a month later, and the memory was still fresh in Dr. Kidds mind. She was a vegetarian. Cary Stayner told a reporter from KNTV of San Jose in an off-camera jailhouse interview Monday how he killed Joie Ruth Armstrong last week and Carole Sund, her daughter Juli and family friend Silvina Pelosso last winter. Please try again later. After a couple of weeks, he upped the sum to $300,000. His attorney said Monday she feared the documents' release will make it tougher for Stayner to get a fair trial. Why did you do that?'" Joies head sat nearby. Cary later got into a job repairing glass and moved in with his uncle Jerry. I do that when I go home to my wife, and I break down and I start crying and I tell her then.". "She truly strived to be the best that she could be.". She also worked at the Yosemite Institute with Kidd, and though the two weren't friends, they did know each other. She had planned to spend the weekend visiting friends in Sausalito but never showed. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. Sorry! They were looking for the missing red 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix as well as the women. "When you hear these snippets, hes going to sound clinical and unemotional, but this is what I asked him to do," Rinek said. The Cedar Lodge hired him as a handyman in 1997 and gave him the use of a small apartment on the top floor. On March 1, 1980, Steven waited until Parnell was at work and then fled the house with Timothy. "And in order to do that, part of doing that is to not be judgmental, not respond when he says things that repulse me, not to show the emotion thats coursing through me. Her body was found 27 feet away from her head in a drainage ditch. Please enter your email and password to sign in. According to Special Agent Christopher Hopkins , both the FBI's Evidence Response Team and the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office collected items of potential interest from Room 509 at the Cedar Lodge Motel, the room in which Stayner sexually assaulted Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso and murdered both Carole Sund and Silvina. Armstrong's body was found nearby. The California Highway Patrol verified the car's license plate as the Sunds rented vehicle and immediately notified the FBI. ", The FBI was reluctant to finger Stayner because, they, and many others, did not believe that Stayner acted by himself, given the brazen killing of the three women in the Cedar Lodge Motel and the disposal of the bodies. He had no criminal record and his only encounter with the law was for marijuana use in 1997. The beheaded body of a young naturalist Friday touched off a new murder investigation in the second grisly crime in this busy national park in the past five months. Acting on a tip from a caller who was worried about the whereabouts of his friend, Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26, park rangers found her decapitated body on the morning of July 22, 1999. Rinek said his wife Lori has been his rock and feels that without the support of his family he wouldnt have been able to deal with this and the other cases he's investigated. Though hundreds of FBI agents, California Highway Patrol officers, and National Park Service rangers had combed Yosemites rugged backcountry with dogs and helicopters for weeks afterward, it was a lone hiker who eventually found them. Tell me what you did?' Try again later. Then, in the summer of 1999, Joie Armstrong, a 26-year-old woman running educational programs at Yosemite for children, was reported missing by her friends and later found decapitated in the park. Cary Stayner became emotional discussing how his brother had been held captive for so long, while his abductor was only sentenced to seven years in prison. 5-year-old Timothy White walking home from school and they quickly snatched him. Attorneys for Cary Stayner, 39, submitted a written guilty plea to charges of murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault in the July 21,1999, death of Joie Armstrong. Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26, a German native who grew up in California, was found Thursday near a stream running by the housing area where she lived near Crane Flat in the west end of Yosemite. Stayner, 37, was to make an initial court appearance later in the day in connection with the slaying of Joie Ruth Armstrong, whose decapitated body was discovered Thursday. In a voice that seemed relieved to be unburdened from its depth a long-kept secret, Stayner blurted, "I am guilty. One colorful sign decorated with red hearts read "Let Foresta Heal." Steven got married and had two kids, but sadly died in a motorcycle crash sometime later. Two days later, they took him into custody while he was eating at a clothing optional resort near Sacramento. Cary Stayner worked at Cedar Lodge for two years before he killed guests Carole and Juli Sund and Silvina Pelosso. Those sources say it is difficult for some investigators to believe Stayner could have gotten the jump on all three women without any help, let alone dispose of their bodies.". I got put on the back burner, you might say," Cary told J.P. Miller, a filmmaker who wrote a screenplay about Steven's abduction. Failed to delete memorial. "He was spunky. Friends would say the younger Stayner never got his life back together after his ordeal. Im so proud of the way Carole and Juli lived, and Im so ashamed of Stayner.. It is the same garden that her mother, Leslie Armstrong, asked FBI agents to continue watering when they sealed off the property and searched it for evidence after Joie Armstrong's murder. What were you thinking? "I remember going out one night after Steve disappeared and wishing on a star that my brother would come back home," Cary reportedly told Mike Echols, author of the book I Know My First Name Is Steven. based on information from your browser. 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Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. But where was Juli? Try again later. "See the good that comes out of evil sometimes. In the following months, the FBI announced that they believed the people responsible for the murders were in custody. But Juli Sund was still missing. One of those arrested, and later released, was Cary Stayner, who worked at the Cedar Lodge as the handyman. Michael "Mick" Larwick, 42, of Modesto, part of a vagabond group of methamphetamine drug users and friends centered in the Modesto area. She nagged them about recycling and using Styrofoam, they said. She was subpoenaed because she is a friend of Dykes and Larwick. Even as he awaits his day in court, he seems convinced that there is a malevolent Bigfoot stalking the forests and mountains of Yosemite. The inn staff claimed that when they cleaned the room the next morning, they had detected no evidence of foul play or anything that made them suspicious. She turned around and freaked out.". All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. "We needed [him] to be very calm and very thoughtful and to just give us an accounting of everything that happened.". After graduation from Merced (California) High School, Stayner worked as a window installer at a glass company. He would use his position to gain access to his victims. "I've struggled with that issue for the last 24 hours and continue to do so," he confessed. Stayner, 39, was sentenced in November to life without parole for Armstrong's July 21, 1999, beheading. Hastings rejected new defense claims that juror misconduct prevented a fair trial. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Then on March 25, Juli Sunds body was discovered near Lake Pedro in Tuolumme County. You are only allowed to leave one flower per day for any given memorial. Ive never seen anything thats so close to black and white and evil and good as Stayner and our children, said Francis Carrington, the father of Carole Sund and grandfather of Juli. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. "We never really got along that well after he came back All of a sudden Steve was getting all these gifts, getting all this clothing, getting all this attention. This browser does not support getting your location. According to an affidavit, during an interview with FBI agents, Stayner "made statements to the agents in which he admitted killing Joie Ruth Armstrong" last Wednesday. FBI agents had questioned Stayner after the body was found -- even searching his backpack for her head -- but let him go. On Saturday, July 24, FBI agents announced at a press conference that a man was in custody on strong suspicion of murder and that a "significant announcement" would be made shortly. While he attended his meeting, the women were to tour the Grand Canyon. Vacuum sweepings were taken from inside Joies house, where Stayner claims to have bound her with duct tape, yielded hair evidence. It was discovered beyond a campground adjacent to her living quarters in the Foresta community, a group of 30 cabins for use by park workers. Eventually, the family moved on, but one day, Cary heard on the radio that 14-year-old Steven had escaped from his abductor and was returning home. In late March, a taunting letter and a map were sent to an FBI agent in the Modesto, California, office, giving investigators a big clue into where Juli Sund was.
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