In the winter and summer of 1999, a serial killer struck four times in the span of six months inside Yosemite National Park. His spree of brutal murders left FBI agents and local law enforcement searching for leads across the state of California. Taunting letters from the perpetrator revealed clues about this killer’s twisted mind. Authorities and the victims’ families could never have imagined that this sinister slayer, Cary Stayner, whose family name was once known across the nation, was operating right beneath their noses.
Episode Source Material
- Grim Discovery in Burned Car / Husband Stunned With Grief – Teens’ Classmates Try to Cope
- Life goes on for the Sunds
- Modesto shares grief of slain tourists’ family
- Brutal Slayings Shatter Peace of Yosemite
- Share 9 Things You Didn’t Know About Yosemite National Park
- Yosemite killer Cary Stayner born
- An FBI Agent Recounts a Repulsive Request by Serial Killer Cary Stayner During His Interrogation
- In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators, by Jeffrey Rinek
- Need to Know: Who is Cary Stayner, the Yosemite Killer?
- The True Story Behind Cary Stayner’s Murders and His Brother Steven’s Legacy
- Steven and Cary Stayner: Stories of hero, serial killer in same Merced family revisited
- Steven Stayner, 24, Kidnaped as Boy, Dies in Motorcycle Crash
- Woman recalls moment family learned they were target of 1999 Yosemite killer: ‘Our lives were flipped upside-down’
- How a nudist colony helped FBI agents find a Yosemite serial killer and how the agents got his confession
- Details of Yosemite killing given