Cary Stayner, with classmate, was voted "Most Creative" in high
school.
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Cary Stayner, 1979 Yearbook
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His younger brother Steven's abduction by a child molester in 1972
and his celebrated
return seven years later haunted Cary.
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Cary, seen hugging his mother the day Steven came back.
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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Cary Stayner
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In 1997, Stayner was hired as a handyman at the Cedar Lodge motel in
El Portal,
just outside the Highway 140 Arch Rock entrance to Yosemite National Park.
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Cary Stayner noticed Joie Armstrong when he drove by her house in
Yosemite.
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He worked at Cedar Lodge in El Portal, where Juli Sund took this
photo of her mother and
friend shortly before Stayner killed them. Photo by Juli Sund via
Associated Press.
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Stayner killed them, put their bodies in a rental car, and set it on
fire.
The victims
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