Cary Stayner, with classmate, was voted "Most Creative" in high
school.
Cary Stayner, 1979 Yearbook
His younger brother Steven's abduction by a child molester in 1972
and his celebrated
return seven years later haunted Cary.
Cary, seen hugging his mother the day Steven came back.
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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.
Cary Stayner noticed Joie Armstrong when he drove by her house in
Yosemite.
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.
Stayner killed them, put their bodies in a rental car, and set it on
fire.
The victims