Cary Stayner - The Yosemite Slayer

Victims were chosen opportunistically but matched specific fantasy criteria involving age, appearance, and physical build. Nothing was left to chance. He would prepare a specialized kit with tools, restraints, and tape, carrying it in his vehicle. The profile painted a solo opera ...  Show more

Police had at this time gained tunnel vision regarding a suspect named Lance Williams. He had volunteered, insisted actually, on being given a polygraph test. He supposedly failed this test as it showed anomalous scores after he was asked if he was a serial killer. Here I would l ...  Show more

Yosemite National Park, located in the picturesque Sierra Nevada mountains, was all but serene for five months in 1999. Fear ran rampant as four women were viciously murdered. The prime suspect was 37-year-old Cary Stayner, a handyman at a local lodge. After being arrested in Jul ...  Show more

Why do so many people go missing in National Parks? Alien conspiracy theory? Government experiments? Or just lost in nature? 

Cary Stayner was an American serial killer who became known as the "Yosemite Killer". He murdered 4 near the tranquility of the famous national park. Cary had a childhood unlike anyone we've ever profiled before. His brother Steven was kidnapped and held for many years until he f ...  Show more

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 perp ...