Transcript J. P. Miller's Interviews Steven Stayner Family
I brother was lauded as a hero, the other branded a monster.
The split up stories of Steven and Cary Stayner made national headlines, first in 1980 and so nearly 20 years later.
Now, a new segment of ABC's news mag "20/20" recounts the crimes and tragedies surrounding the Merced, Calif., siblings on the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Yosemite serial killings. The two-hour special airs Fri.
Steven, the younger brother, vanished on Dec. 4, 1972, when he was but vii years old. Sleet was falling when an old Buick pulled upwardly next to him as he walked dwelling house from school. Inside was a Ukiah hotel clerk named Kenneth Parnell, who accosted him about making a donation to a church building. Parnell offered him a ride, simply instead taking the boy dwelling house, he kidnapped him.
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For seven years, Steven was held captive and sexually molested past Parnell, who forced Steven to call him "Dad" and told him his parents had abased him. He finally escaped with some other boy that Parnell had abducted — a v-year-former named Timmy White.
On Valentine's Day 1980, Steven walked out of a Mendocino Canton motel with Timmy, conveying the boy when he got tired. The pair then hitchhiked to the Ukiah police station. Steven was hailed every bit a hero for rescuing the youngster.
A photo taken after Steven's escape to liberty shows him flanked past his beaming father, Delbert. In the background, wearing a baseball game cap, is his 18-year-old brother, Cary.
From that signal on, Cary lived Steven'southward shadow.
A longtime next-door neighbour told the San Francisco Relate that the kidnapping scarred Cary, who was often described as a loner and introvert.
"I think it must take really afflicted Cary," said Michael Kollman. "When Steven came home, Cary was kind of put on the back shelf. He was in the groundwork ever."
One rainy nighttime in September 1989, Steven jumped on his motorcycle and rode off without a helmet after finishing his shift at a Merced pizza shop. His helmet had supposedly been stolen days before. He crashed into a parked car and was thrown from the bike, his head slamming the pavement. Steven Stayner, celebrity savior of a young boy, was dead at 24.
Tragedy struck the Stayner family again 15 months later, in December 1990. Cary's uncle Jerry, who he was very shut to and lived with, was shot and killed past a home invader with Jerry's own shotgun. The instance was never solved.
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Cary spent the '90s bouncing from one handyman chore to some other. Friends and co-workers would say later that he struggled with impulses he didn't empathise and was susceptible to fits of rage. One twenty-four hour period in 1995, he "freaked out" and he bloodied his fist pounding it into a sail of plywood.
He would later tell the FBI he started imagining killing women and girls when he was simply 6 or 7 years one-time.
Eventually, he institute work doing odd jobs at the Cedar Order outside of Yosemite. On the night after Valentine's Twenty-four hour period 1999, Cary knocked on the door of the lodge'south room 509, proverb he had to brand a plumbing repair.
He actually was not working at the time — he had been laid off for the winter off-season — simply the guests, Carole Sund, her teen daughter, Juli, and their friend Silvina Pelosso, didn't know that.
When he got into the room, Cary pulled out a .22-quotient pistol, claiming he intended to rob the them. He jump and duct-taped the trio, then herded Juli and Silvina into a bathroom while he choked Carole to expiry. Silvina was strangled side by side. Cary and then spent the next few hours sexually assaulting Juli.
The bodies of Carole and Silvina were found in their rental car a month later nigh 50 miles abroad, and investigators — alerted past an anonymous letter of the alphabet that Cary said he wrote — establish Juli's body nearly a Don Pedro Reservoir overlook. Her throat had been slashed.
Cary told a television reporter that iv months later on he drove to Foresta Road in Yosemite National Park, a favorite spot where he said he once saw Bigfoot, which was something of an obsession with him.
He came upon motel where he met a 26-year-old naturalist named Joie Armstrong and brought up the topic of Bigfoot in conversation. When he realized that she was alone, he said, he could not command the urge to kill her too. Her beheaded body was found near her cabin on July 22.
"How could we accept missed someone we felt was part of our family?" asked Lisa Hansell, so Cedar Society eating place general manager. "Anybody living in this community knew and embraced this monster, who was capable of such horrors."
Cary Stayner, now 57, was bedevilled of the murders of Armstrong, the Sunds and Pelosso, and sentenced to death for all except Armstrong's. He remains on death row at San Quentin Penitentiary.
"I wish I could take controlled myself and not done what I did," he said in a 1999 jailhouse interview.
Previous reports by Chronicle reporters Susan Sward, Stacy Finz, Meredith May, Torri Minton, Zachary Coile and Matthew Yi contributed to this article.
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