During his interrogation, Stayner shocked the agents when he confessed not only to Armstrong's decapitation, but to the murders of Pelosso and the Sunds, and the sending of the map for finding Juli Sund's body as well. FBI agents John Boles and Jeff Rinek found Stayner staying at the Laguna del Sol nudist resort in Wilton, where he was arrested and taken to Sacramento for questioning. Detectives traced this vehicle to Stayner, which led to him becoming the prime suspect in the case. When the decapitated body of Joie Ruth Armstrong was found, eyewitnesses said they saw a blue 1972 International Scout parked outside the cabin where she was staying. One of those employees was Stayner, but he was not considered a suspect at that point because he had no criminal history and remained calm during the police interview. The top of the note read, "We had fun with this one." Investigators went to the location depicted on the map and found the remains of Juli, whose throat had been cut.ĭetectives began interviewing employees of the Cedar Lodge motel where the first three victims had been staying just before their deaths. A note was sent to police with a hand-drawn map indicating the location of the third victim, Sund's daughter Juli. The bodies were burned beyond recognition and were identified using dental records. The first two victims, Carole Sund and Pelosso, were found in the trunk of the charred remains of Sund's Pontiac rental car. Between February and July 1999, he murdered two women and two teenagers: 42-year-old Carole Sund her daughter, 15-year-old Juli Sund Juli's friend, 16-year-old Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso and Yosemite Institute employee Joie Ruth Armstrong, a 26-year-old naturalist. In 1997, Stayner was hired as a handyman at the Cedar Lodge motel in El Portal, California, just outside the Highway 140 entrance to Yosemite National Park. Stayner is reported to have attempted suicide in 1991, and was arrested in 1997 for possession of marijuana and methamphetamine, although these charges were eventually dropped. Cary later claimed that Jesse molested him around the same time that Steven was kidnapped. The following year, Cary's uncle, Jesse, with whom he was living at the time, was murdered.
Steven died in a motorcycle accident in 1989.
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A true crime book and TV movie, both titled I Know My First Name Is Steven, were made about the ordeal. When Steven escaped from Parnell and returned home in 1980, he received massive media attention. Cary later said that he felt neglected while his parents grieved over the loss of Steven. His seven-year-old brother, Steven Stayner, was kidnapped by child molester Kenneth Parnell in 1972, when Cary was 11, and held captive for more than seven years before escaping and being reunited with his family. Cary Stayner was born and raised in Merced, California.
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