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♪♪

Williams: The overriding fear
was that visiting the park

was a dangerous thing to do.

What those crimes showed us
was that bad things can happen

in a place
you feel the most safe.

We have amazing, beautiful
scenery and clean air and trees

and, above all, we have safety.

Why here?

Why would you do this
in this community?

♪♪

Hello and welcome to
"How It Really Happened."

I'm Hill Harper.

There are few pleasures
in life more breathtaking

than the wonders of nature's
raw power and beauty.

But in 1999,
the vicious sexual assault

and murders of four innocent
and vibrant women

enjoying the legendary landscape
of Yosemite National Park

cut deeply into the conscience
of a nation and the world.

After a five-month FBI
investigation of dead-end leads,

suddenly,
there's an all-out manhunt.

Agents now have
a new prime suspect,

one who's been hiding
in plain sight all along.

Could this so-called
"cooperative, nice guy"

have actually been
a violent killer.

This is part 2 of
"The Yosemite Murders,"

and this is how
it really happened.

♪♪

On February 15, 1999,

Carole Sund
from Eureka, California,

and her daughter, Juli, age 15,

and Juli's friend,
Silvina Pelosso,

who was 16
and visiting from Argentina,

went missing from the area
around Yosemite National Park.

King: This extraordinary
missing-persons case

has captured the attention of
not only of the United States

but spread around the world.

Hanley: Carole wanted
to take Silvina

to one of the most
beautiful places in the world.

Jordan:
They were having the time
of their lives seeing Yosemite,

and at the end of the day,

they went back to
where they were staying,

at the Cedar Lodge.

It's extremely remote.

There is no cell service,
and there is no traffic.

The cedar lodge was the last
place that they were seen.

These women seem to have
completely vanished

from the face of the Earth.

James Maddock,
you're the FBI special agent.

Anything new you can report?

We're really no further
down the road

in making
a conclusive determination

about what happened
to the missing people.

The first thing we thought was
that they had had an accident

and the car
had gone into the river.

Gagliano: As hopes for finding
the women alive began to fade,

the accident theory gave way
to the likelihood of foul play,

and an FBI task force
was created

to look into the disappearances.

They basically retrace
everything,

starting at the Cedar Lodge,

because that was the last place
that the three had been seen.

They interview the employees.

They interview Cary Stayner,
who's the maintenance guy there.

The guy next door,

just completely calm,
collected, affable, easygoing.

Jackson: Mary Ellen Geist,
a KGO Radio reporter

covering the Sund-Pelosso case,

met Cary Stayner
in a chance encounter

at the Cedar Lodge hot tub.

I said, "Are you related
in any way to Steven Stayner?"

Gagliano:
The infamous Steven Stayner
kidnapping, child-abuse,

and rescue story had consumed
the entire nation,

beginning back in 1972.

And he said "Yes,
he was my brother."

I remember I said, "Oh, my God.
I covered that story."

And he said, "It messed up
our whole family.

It messed up all of us."

And he seemed so evolved.

It's as if he spoke
in a way like someone

who's had a lot of therapy.

He's the one that actually shows

the FBI the different rooms
in the hotel.

He shows them the room
where the girls were staying,

in room 509.

He's actually helping
with the investigation.

Jordan: The idea that
the brother of the very famous

Steven Stayner
had actually morphed

into a violent predator himself
was just unimaginable.

Carole Sund's credit card
surfaces in Modesto.

And one of the theories was,

all three of them
were kidnapped.

Why would this red Pontiac
absolutely vanish

along with the girls?

They had arrested two men.

Rinek: They are great suspects.

Hanley: Rufus Dykes was kind
of a low-level ex-con.

Rufus has a half-brother,
Mick Larwick.

They think maybe they were
working together.

A few days after Larwick
and Dykes are in custody...

We believe we have
recovered the car.

...in the back of the car

were the bodies of Carole Sund
and Silvina Pelosso.

♪♪

Jens: As a father,
I feel terrible.

I'm supposed to die.

[ Camera shutter clicks ]

[Sobbing ] Excuse me.

The search is on for Juli,
and then...

Hanley: They did find her body.

Her throat is slit from one side
all the way to the other.

Eugene "Rufus" Dykes
is interviewed by an FBI agent.

He admitted involvement
in the missing three women

from Yosemite.

Rinek:
The things that Dykes said were
then accepted as a confession.

And the FBI actually made
a statement at that point

that they felt
they had arrested the guys

who had done something
to these women.

Hanley: They told the public
they were safe.

So the feeling was that
these guys did do it.

And that, of course,
was absolutely wrong.

♪♪

A few months later,
the body of Joie Armstrong

is found in
the Yosemite National Park,

and that changes
everything all over again.

Armstrong:
I get a knock on the door.

Two FBI agents --

"We found a body."

I said, "Does the body
have red hair?"

And they said, "We don't know."

♪♪

If that wasn't a sledgehammer
in the gut.

I remember when we didn't know
how this had happened

and we were scared,
wondering,

"Is the guy that did this
right over there?"

This is not just
some isolated event.

This is a part
of a bigger problem.

A distinctive car had been
spotted near Joie's cabin.

Rowlands:
It's powder blue and white,

and a witness says they saw
it driving in the area.

And people know it.

It's Cary Stayner.

He denied being near there.

Rowlands: But they also notice
that he has a backpack on,

and at this point,

Joie Armstrong's head
has not been found.

And a real fear
for these rangers is

"Is her head in that backpack?"

He let us search the vehicle,

but he wouldn't let us
look in the backpack.

I'm like, "Yeah, we've got
to take the backpack."

But I told him that
I wasn't gonna open it

until we got
a warrant to open it.

Turns out that inside
that backpack

was some suntan oil,

some sunflower seeds,
and a book.

Rinek: It was a novel
by a horror/fantasy author

named John Saul
about two brothers,

one of whom was
a stone-cold killer,

who tried to pin a number of
gruesome murders on his brother.

Rowlands: There was no head.

As crime-scene investigators
continue to process the area

in and around Joie's house,

they eventually do find
her head downstream

from where they found her body.

Schwartz:
But in the process, we were able
to look at the tires

and match those tire tracks
to the up on scene.

And found a perfect match.

And that night,
he sold all his belongings.

And he didn't show up for work
the next day.

♪♪

Now there's an all-out search
for Cary Stayner.

The FBI issues a press release
to the media.

And a woman who sees
the television report

is staying at a nudist colony
outside of Sacramento.

So, she calls the FBI and says,
"I know where this guy is."

Gagliano: The FBI quickly
assembles a team

to head to the Laguna del Sol
nudist resort.

One of those agents
is Jeff Rinek.

Rinek: They tell me that I was
picking up some guy

who was possibly running

and that Laguna del Sol
was a nudist colony.

♪♪

Rinek and a team of agents
and officers moved in quickly

and approached Cary Stayner
at the nudist resort.

Their job was really just to
bring him in for questioning.

I think Stayner sees them
and kind of knows.

He stood up and put his hands
on his head.

And during the drive back
to headquarters,

Agent Rinek used his disarming
nature to draw Cary Stayner out.

One of the first things Rinek
says to him is --

Rinek:
He looked exactly like a movie
character called Billy Jack.

There's a scene in the movie...

I'm gonna whop you.

...where Billy Jack does
a roundhouse kick

and knocks the guy down.

It was beautiful.

So, I said, you know,
"Did you ever see 'Billy Jack'?"

He goes, "Nah."

The conversation takes
a more personal turn

to the tragic 1972
sex abuse and kidnapping

of Cary's little brother.

Cary Stayner says he was upset
that Steven's kidnapper,

Kenneth Parnell,
only got seven years in prison

and how unfair that was.

Rinek: Cary and I talked
about closure in the car ride

as it related
to his brother, Steven.

There are things
that happen in life

that will never,
ever go away.

The best we can hope for is that
we can learn to live with it.

As we were pulling
in the impound for the office,

he looks at me
and he recites verbatim

those words from "Billy Jack"
and started laughing.

He knew that I knew,
and I knew that he knew.

He had seen it.

He knew he looked
exactly like the guy.

It probably made Cary feel good,
like he's the star.

Rowlands: And that relationship
would end up

changing this
entire investigation.

After nearly five months,

the FBI task force
now had evidence

connecting Cary Stayner to
the murder of Joie Armstrong.

Rinek: We had him sit down
in an interview room.

He wasn't under arrest,
and he could leave.

We figured the best thing to do

would be to call
in the polygraph examiner,

because as part of
a polygraph examination,

he's got to do an interview.

Gagliano:
FBI Special Agent Rinek
had already established

a crucial bond
with Cary Stayner,

and he was assigned
to interview him.

First thing is,
they order a pizza.

Gagliano:
A lot of times for people that
are being questioned by the FBI,

they think all the worst things,

that a confession is gonna
be beaten out of them.

That's not how we do business.

Rinek: "Hey, the pizza's here.
The polygrapher is here.

What do you want to do first?"

And Cary looks at me and says,
"Let's skip the polygraph.

I'd like to talk alone."

And he says, "You know, Jeff,

I've done some
really bad things."

What could be coming?

And then he said, "I can give
you closure on this and more."

I said, "You mean the three
women from the Cedar Lodge?"

And he silently nods.

Hanley: He tells Rinek,
"Yeah, I'll talk to you,

but there's a few things
I want first."

Rowlands:
Cary Stayner basically says,

"I'll tell you what
you want to know

if you give me pornographic
images of children."

Now you've got him, because even
though it's inconceivable

that you're going to be
sharing child pornography

with this depraved reprobate,

he's willing to negotiate
to tell you something.

Now it's just a delicate dance

of changing his mind
about what he needs --

"How about if I get you
a pepperoni pizza and a Coke?"

-- and trying to work
it that way.

And as he's finishing up
his pizza, he says,

"This is gonna be
my last meal as a free man."

And at that point on,
the confession starts.

Rinek wasn't taking any chances.

Cary Stayner's admissions
of guilt were being recorded.

I thought it was strange
when he mentioned Bigfoot,

but I believe that Cary
believes he saw Bigfoot.

Jordan: In my mind,
Bigfoot is a metaphor

for what other serial killers
call the dark side,

which is capable
of unspeakable violence.

Cary finally begins to reveal
the horrifying truth

of what he had done.

Only a person of incredible
physical and mental strength

could have done what she did.

When I heard Cary Stayner
describing what he had done,

it was just blood-curdling,
shocking, frightening.

And I thought nobody,
except for his victims,

saw this dark, dark evil side
of Cary Stayner.

And when we finished
the discussion

of his murder of Joie,

he had to decide whether he was
going to discuss Sund/Pelosso.

Geist:
My producer called me and said,

"I've got a room for you
at the Cedar Lodge."

And they called it
the 500 West section.

And I pull up,
and I'm the only car there.

And I sort of thought
that was weird

that I was staying there alone,
but I saw a pool and a hot tub.

And I'm like, "Yes!
This is great.

I've had a long day."

This man comes in,
and he gets into the hot tub.

I think he said right away,
"Hi. My name is Cary Stayner."

And then he asked me questions.

We talked a little bit more.

He seemed quite nice.

Gagliano: But when Mary Ellen
changed the subject

to the
ongoing Sund/Pelosso case --

I said, "What's your theory

about what happened
to these women?"

Cary Stayner's demeanor suddenly
turned dark and dangerous.

He turned to me like this,

and his eyes just went
black and flat.

That was like an animal
was gonna attack.

I just felt like I saw
a moment of evil.

I felt in danger, and I ran,

and I put the furniture
in front of the door,

and I just followed
my instincts.

Rinek: When you work homicides,

I always look
in the face of the killer

and I think to myself,

"That's the last thing
our victim saw."

Geist: I think about that look
on Cary Stayner's face.

I was in the same situation
as his victims.

I was alone with this guy who,
when he realizes

he's alone with women,
becomes a predator.

Cary said that he had been
fighting the urge

to kill women
since he was a boy

sitting in the parking lot
of the grocery store

while his mom
was in grocery shopping.

He would look in through
the big planes of glass

and fantasize about
tying up the female checkers.

Cary says he envisioned
slaughtering them en masse.

Cary Stayner's disturbing
boyhood fantasies began

to mutate into visions
of rape and murder.

Dr. Dietz:
He had very early onset
of deviant sexual fantasies.

His interest in being able
to tie up young girls,

put them in a bunker,
and do what he wants with them

started before
his brother disappeared.

There is some indication

that Stayner had been
sexually abused in childhood.

He said, "I've never told
anybody before,

but my uncle molested me."

I believe that what he was doing
was sexually oriented

because of the way he described

that he had never had a normal
relationship with a woman.

♪♪

Rowlands: And he peered
into the window,

and that's when he noticed
Carole Sund, Juli Sund,

and Silvina
inside the room of 509.

Rowlands:
He grabbed his murder kit,
as he called it --

his backpack with his gun
and the rope and the duct tape.

Jordan: Cary talked
through the door to Carole Sund,

who was very suspicious.

He said, "There's a leak
in the room above your room,

and it's leaking water, and I
need to come in and check it."

Carole Sund
actually resisted and said,

"No, you're not coming in."

And he insisted, "Oh, call
the front desk if you want."

Something to re-assure her
that it was okay.

Jordan:
He takes Juli and Silvina
and puts them in the bathroom.

And he approaches Carole Sund,
who is laying bound on the bed.

Silently, he strangles this
mother with a rope from his kit.

He was delivering these
gory details with no emotion.

Jordan:
And he takes Juli Sund and moves
her into the unit next door,

using the master key
from his key ring.

He then sexually assaulted her.

Jordan:
He kills Silvina in the same way

that he killed Carole Sund,
quietly strangling her,

while Juli stays
in the unit next door.

Right next to Carole Sund.

She didn't know her mom
and friend were already dead.

Carole and Silvina are in
the trunk of the vehicle.

He parks, comes around
to the passenger seat.

And he said, "You know,
I carried her like this,

like a husband carries a wife."

And he carried her about
50 yards into the hillside,

and he put Juli on the pink
blanket, totally freezing.

And he's telling her
he loves her.

Jordan: Part of this fantasy
is believing that Juli loves

him and that he loves her.

Hanley: He kept driving
all the way into the forest

and just hoofed it
and walked back to a town.

He used Carole's $200
to get back to Yosemite Lodge.

Handed me the cash up front

and told me
where he wanted to go.

The driver of that cab,
Jenny Paul,

remembers a very
unusual conversation.

When he asked me
if I believed in Bigfoot,

I was kind of shocked

that he would ask me
something like that.

That was the ruse that he had
used to engage Joie Armstrong

into conversation.

Paul: He offered to show me
where he'd seen Bigfoot

when we got to Yosemite,

but I just had this intuition.

I was scared.

I'm not gonna go somewhere
I don't know.

Cary Stayner was a clever man.

Hanley: He watched
a lot of crime shows

and learned throwing the wallet
out might misdirect them

and take the suspicion
away from him.

I don't get emotional
over this really anymore,

until I recently learned
that Cary had his killing kit

in that backpack
right behind me the whole time.

♪♪

Welcome back to
"How It Really Happened."

FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek got
Cary Stayner's full confession.

In chilling detail,
he admitted to killing

26-year-Old naturalist
Joie Armstrong

and the triple homicide
of Carole Sund,

Juli Sund, and Silvina Pelosso.

As soon as his six-hour
confession was over,

Stayner was formally arrested
and locked behind bars.

The task force had finally
gotten their man.

But Cary Stayner's capture
was a complete shock

to the small mountain community
who knew him or knew of him.

Was it possible their friendly
cedar lodge handyman

could really be
a depraved serial killer?

♪♪

The FBI claims to have linked
Stayner to all four killings.

Woman: Late last night, Federal
Authorities arrested this man,

37-year-Old Cary Stayner.

I ran into living room,
looked at the TV,

and I'm like, "Hey,
that's that guy that I drove."

Dr. Kidd: I knew a lot of people
who had contact with him.

This person was right under
our nose this whole time.

Nobody can believe that Cary
would do anything like this.

Everybody thinks that
he probably isn't

the one
they're looking for.

Unbelievable, you know?

'Cause he was very friendly.

There was nothing
that ever made me

think that he would harm anyone.

It brought me to tears
when I saw it on the TV.

Gagliano: But the truth about
Cary Stayner

came out in new revelations
during his confession,

appalling disclosures that the
four Yosemite murder victims

were not his original targets.

Lenna: My mom worked
at the Cedar Lodge.

She was a waitress
and bartender.

My mom seemed very happy
when Cary was around.

We knew that he was more
of like a boyfriend.

They had a really
deep connection and bond.

Jackson: To 11-year-old Lenna
and her 8-year-old sister,

Cary Stayner was like
a favorite uncle

who spoiled the kids.

I definitely remember
he would always buy us gifts.

He bought us Beanie Babies,

we had an entire collection
of them.

I call that grooming.

I think he was grooming them.

Every time we'd see him
at the Cedar Lodge,

he'd walk us
into the gift shop,

buy us another Beanie Baby,
take us to the pool.

So we loved him.

As a child in 1999,
Lenna was protected

from hearing all the details

of Cary Stayner's
gruesome confession

to the Yosemite murders.

But years later,
as a young woman,

Lenna learned
what Cary Stayner had in mind

for her entire family --

a sadistic
and cold-blooded betrayal

that would change Lenna's life
forever.

If you look
at that whole confession,

Rinek was able to peal a lid
off of a Pandora's box

that had been closed
for years and years.

And he pries it open,
and all the skeletons come out.

He was going to murder my mom

and then rape and murder
my sister and I.

To my knowledge, he attempted
to carry out his plan

with my family
three different times.

Even Rinek was caught off guard
by Cary Stayner's new admission.

He was at our house
repairing some screens for us.

He had a murder kit,
as he called it --

his backpack, which had
a revolver, had rope, duct tape.

Cary says that he went there

with the intention
of killing them.

This was a fantasy
that he had had for months.

Jackson:
But, suddenly, a neighbor
appeared at Lenna's door,

and that surprise visit
abruptly stopped Stayner

from launching
his murderous attack.

So, he left there very angry.

He says that once
that plan was foiled,

he came back to the Cedar Lodge,
where he was living.

Gagliano: His twisted fantasy
had been ruined,

but Cary Stayner was still
poised to stalk and kill.

In the course
of walking off his tension

through the parking lot,

that's where he saw Carole
and the girls.

He was so wound up and so ready

because Cary had built
himself up to do this.

Lenna: And that was the night
that he followed through

with Carole,
Juli, and Silvina.

When neighbors heard of
Cary Stayner's violent plan

for Lenna and her family,
they were left in shock.

Williams: First and foremost,
horrifying to me as a mother.

They lived very near to me.

And I felt sick to my stomach.

I pretty much lost my childhood
from that moment on.

Jackson: Since 1999, Lenna has
struggled to make sense

of Cary Stayner's traumatic
betrayal of her family.

Lenna:
This person that we adored,

who wanted to do
these awful things to us,

never even said
a word to us again.

I still have questions
that are not answered.

How could you?
Why would you?

Do you feel any guilt?

And Lenna has also felt anguish
over being a survivor

of the Cary Stayner
killing spree.

It haunted me for a long time

knowing that three other women
lost their lives,

when Cary had confessed
to my mom, my sister, and I

being his original
intended victims.

They're the version of me
that was fatally taken away.

♪♪

♪♪

Jordan: Cary Stayner is
technically a serial killer,

but his first homicide
was really a mass murder.

He killed three women at once
in an act of sexual predation

that was really high-risk.

You almost never see this

as a first murder
for a serial killer.

Gagliano: And when Cary Stayner
was confronted

with losing control
of Joie Armstrong

as she courageously
fought for her life,

it enraged him.

Armstrong: And he said,
"She had made me so angry,

I just wanted to do the most
heinous thing I could think of."

And he cut her head off.

The outcome of her
fighting so hard

was the evidence that was left.

Law enforcement agents want
to build the strongest possible

criminal case
against Cary Stayner.

They know that his confession
alone is simply not enough

to guarantee
a guilty verdict at trial.

[Indistinct chatter

Just because someone
says something

doesn't make it true.

You're gonna need corroboration.

Jackson:
They urgently needed to collect
the physical evidence

Cary Stayner
had scattered in remote places

throughout
the Yosemite backcountry.

Gagliano:
Because only the killer would
know under what tree

the body was laid

or what portion of the creek
he laid the decapitated head in.

Cary Stayner agreed
to fully cooperate,

beginning with
those critical items

from Joie Armstrong's murder.

I think that FBI Agent Rinek's
work was the key in all of it

to get that tour.

Unbelievable.

The next day,
they got him out of jail.

To here.

Rinek: I met Cary and
my partners at Joie's cabin.

My name is Jeff Rinek.

I am a special agent
with the FBI.

This is Cary.

And Cary is going
to take us to an area

where he committed a crime,

and he's gonna show us
what happened.

Dr. Kidd:
Information was leaked.

We snuck over the ridge
and peeked down

to see what was going on.

I come in on the walkway.

Saw a guy being walked through
the crime scene by the FBI.

Rinek: Okay.

And I told her
to get on the bed

with her face pointing
that way.

The first thing I asked Cary
to do was to demonstrate on me

how he murdered Joie

to see if what he showed me
would fit how she was killed.

I put my arm
underneath her arm.

Okay, so you do that.
Okay.

I just led her out
of the house here.

Rinek:
Everything he said proved true.

Then, suddenly, in a potentially
devastating moment,

the killer nearly comes
fact-to-face

with Joie Armstrong's
grieving mother.

Ironically,
when we were driving out

with Cary to start
the evidence retrieval,

we passed Leslie coming in.

I think they realized that we
were there with him,

so I think they kept her
where she was until we left.

Luckily, she didn't know.

On the way out
of Joie's cabin, we stopped,

and he pointed to where
he had left the knife.

We refer to this
as a home-run case,

because that just further
incriminates him.

With Cary Stayner
still under guard,

agents moved on to collect
the key physical evidence

in the Sund/Pelosso
triple murder.

Rinek: We drove about 50 miles,

and he points to where he threw
the knife he used to kill Juli

and the duct tape.

They found both exactly
where he said it was.

Jackson: The mountain
of forensic evidence

revealed to investigators
that Cary Stayner alone

committed
the depraved Yosemite murders.

Maddock: I previously expressed
a belief that the key players

in the Sund/Pelosso case
were already in custody.

In light
of yesterday's arrest, however,

the possible involvement of
others in the murders of Carole,

Juli, and Silvina
is being re-evaluated.

Jackson: Afterwards,
FBI inspectors determined

that James Maddock
mishandled the investigation,

and in January 2001, he was
quietly removed from his post.

Rowlands: Cary Stayner was one
step ahead of them.

Because he was so cunning
and so detached,

he was able to fool the FBI.

♪♪

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[ Camera shutter clicks ]

I don't burden myself
with carrying hate around.

It doesn't fix anything.

Jackson:
Leslie Armstrong did not want
a future tied up

with painful legal battles
determining Cary Stayner's fate,

and so she decided to take
some control over the process.

A simple death penalty does not
mean that it's over and done.

I asked if
the Federal Government

would accept life
with no chance of release,

and I got it.

Jackson: After pleading guilty
to the murder of Joie Armstrong,

Cary Stayner was sentenced
to life in prison

without parole
on November 30, 2000.

Stayner sobbed and turned
to Joie's family

to give
an impromptu apology.

He turned in our direction.

He said, "I'm sorry."

Joie's boyfriend
just started wailing.

I'd never heard a man cry
like that.

That was heartbreaking.

♪♪

Gagliano:
Eight months after the deaths
of Carole and Juli Sund

and Silvina Pelosso,
Cary Stayner was charged

with their murders.

Justice, however,
would have to come later,

in a high-stakes
courtroom battle

for Cary Stayner's life.

The Carringtons were ready.

They pursued the death penalty.

In July 2002,
The State v. Cary Stayner

murder trial began.

Blitzer:
He's confessed to a series
of grisly murders.

Now Cary Stayner wants off
the hook with an insanity plea.

Gagliano: Stayner's defense team

called upon half-a-dozen
mental health experts.

Amongst those was at least
one who would cite brain scans

indicating Stayner suffers

from an obsessive-compulsive
disorder, depression,

and an unspecified
psychosis.

Reporter:
Do you think he's crazy?

No.

Prosecutors were prepared
to prove Stayner

knew right from wrong.

Renowned forensic psychiatrist
Dr. Park Dietz spent two days

evaluating Cary Stayner
for the prosecution.

My testimony was largely focused
on steps he took before,

during, and after the crime
to indulge his sexual fantasy

without being caught.

In the courtroom, there were
days that he would tear up.

There were times when he seemed
completely uninterested

in what was happening.

It was an interesting study
into a serial killer.

♪♪

Gagliano:
On August 26, 2002, Cary Stayner
was convicted of triple murder,

and a few weeks
before Christmas,

he was sentenced to death.

♪♪

Cary is a resident on death row
at San Quentin prison.

Purdy:
There's no capital punishment
in California anymore,

so I Imagine he'll spend
the rest of his life in prison,

on death row.

Whether you get
the death penalty or not,

damage has been done
that can't be fixed.

My child's still dead.

Lenna:
It haunted me for a long time.

I would feel guilty,

and it comes from
having survivor's guilt.

I'll never forget them.

Francis:
Hate is a terrible thing.

I think it wouldn't be
beneficial to hate Cary Stayner.

Jackson: The Carringtons put
all of their emotions

into something positive that
could help other families --

the Carole Sund-Carrington
Memorial Reward Foundation.

This nonprofit organization
was helping to look for children

and families that were
missing or murdered,

and we really did help.

I think Carole and I
have a life.

I don't think we ought to let
Cary Stayner ruin our life, too.

Dr. Kidd:
Joie's story is one of many,
but certainly a spectacular one,

and there's still
a legacy to her story.

The Armstrong Scholars program
is a testimony

to her legacy living on.

Every year, 12 to 13 young women
learn outdoor survival skills.

They learn how strong they are.

I don't want people
to remember Cary.

I'd rather them remember the
beautiful women who were lost.

♪♪

All these years later, the story
of the missing women of Yosemite

is still a valuable
cautionary tale.

It emphasizes how important
it is to trust your intuition

when an encounter with
a stranger feels wrong

or dangerous,
because, sometimes,

the handsome neighbor
or the handyman is a killer.

And as for FBI Special Agent
Jeff Rinek,

he retired from the FBI in 2006.

Rinek told us since his wife
joined him in retirement,

it's the happiest
he's ever been.

Thanks for watching.

Good night.