Months later, the killer struck again, beheading naturalist Joie Armstrong in Yosemite. Then-FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Rinek was sent to talk with a potential witness in the case, Cary Stayner.

Lawyers for Cary Stayner lost a bid to get the Yosemite homicides trial moved again just before the final jury was picked Monday. Despite publicity so intense that 96% of the jury pool said they ...

Cary Stayner made headlines in 1999 after he terrorized Yosemite National Park, murdering tourists Carole Sund, her daughter Juli Sund and friend Silvina Pelosso, along with park naturalist Joie ...

The two brothers are both famous and both knew unspeakable horror. The two brothers of the Stayner family are both famous, both tied to the wonder of Yosemite National Park, and both knew ...

In a starkly emotional hearing, so riddled with "horrendous and devastating" details of murder that even the judge broke down, Yosemite killer Cary Stayner was sentenced Thursday to die in San ...

Motel handyman Cary Stayner is shown in a July 29, 1999, mugshot, was charged Oct. 20, 1999, with capital murder in the killings of three Yosemite sightseers. He was also linked to a fourth ...

The 200-room motel opened in 1977, providing lodging just outside Yosemite National Park’s Highway 140 entrance. It gained unwanted notoriety in 1999 when one of its handymen, Cary Stayner ...

Lenna said police told her family Cary Stayner tried three times to kill them. Lenna was just 10 or 11 years old when her mother began a relationship with Cary Stayner, a maintenance worker at the ...

Atty. Christine Johnson said a new site was warranted. A hearing was scheduled for Oct. 29 in Mariposa, where Stayner is charged with the February 1999 murders of Yosemite three tourists.

The defense for Cary Stayner, the accused Yosemite killer, began putting on its case Wednesday with a string of female witnesses who characterized the defendant as nonthreatening and respectful.

A former motel handyman was sentenced to death Thursday for murdering three Yosemite National Park tourists in 1999. Cary Stayner, 41, was ordered to die by injection in state prison, a fate that ...

The docuseries kicks off with Steven’s 1972 kidnapping, and follows his abuse at the hands of Yosemite Lodge worker Kenneth Parnell. Stayner would not reemerge until 1980, when he fled from ...