Murder At Yosemite

Author : Dennis McDougal
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307493538

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The Yosemite Murders by Dennis McDougal Pdf

Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's Day, brings his considerable investigative and narrative skills to the Yosemite murders to give you the most complete account of what really happened. Drawing on several personal conversations with the confessed killer and interviews with the victims' families, McDougal presents the definitive story, and answers many lingering questions. What demons drove this quiet handyman and nudist colony habitue to burn, mutilate, and murder four women he didn't even know? How did he overpower a woman and two teenaged girls? And most disturbing, did the glory-seeking FBI actually hinder the investigation, leaving the killer free to kill once more before he was caught? THE YOSEMITE MURDERS offers valuable insight into these savage and senseless murders in the heart of America's most beautiful wilderness.

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:999359844

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Murder at Yosemite by Carlton Smith Pdf

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781466885004

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Murder at Yosemite by Carlton Smith Pdf

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** Amidst the breathtaking natural beauty of Yosemite National Park, four terrifying killings took place. For months, law enforcement officials were stumped by the deaths of three tourists: Carole Sund, her teenaged daughter Juli, and a family friend, Silvina Pelosso. But when they found the decapitated body and head of 26-year-old naturalist Joie Ruth Armstrong, they were led to one man: 37-year-old handyman Cary Stayner. Stayner was arrested at a California nudist colony and soon admitted to all four killings, claiming he'd had urges to kill women for thirty years. And Cary's twisted impulses were not the only tragedy of the Stayner family. At the age of seven, his younger brother Steven was abducted by a pedophile and forced to live with the man for seven years, until he escaped. His story was told in a TV movie called "I Know My First Name is Steven." Steven would ultimately die in a motorcycle crash at twenty-four. What are the odds of one family suffering such astounding tragedies? What would compel a seemingly pleasant, clean-cut man to brutally attack and gruesomely kill four innocent women? Did he act alone? Or was his a false confession? Bestselling true crime author Carlton Smith searches for the shocking answers in Murder at Yosemite, this fascinating account of murder and madness.

Author : Jack Rosewood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1516893085

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Cary Stayner: the True Story of the Yosemite Park Killer by Jack Rosewood Pdf

While some would say that American serial killer Cary Stayner was influenced by family tragedy - his already-troubled family was shattered when his brother was abducted for seven years and held as a sex slave before his heroic return inspired the miniseries "I Know My First Name Is Steven" - in reality, Cary Stayner's true crime story is much more ominous. The handsome, outdoorsy guy with a love for marijuana, nude beaches and the Sierra Nevada mountain range where he once spotted Bigfoot had been harboring fantasies of brutally killing women years before his brother's abduction turned the Stayner family upside down. And in the annals of historical serial killers, Stayner's story stands out, because for months he made one of the most beautiful places on earth a nightmare for women when California's majestic Yosemite National Park became his own devil's playground, and he finally found himself unable to control his long-suppressed urges. Because he didn't look menacing, the man one FBI agent compared to actor Tom Laughlin in "Billy Jack" was able to gain the trust of his victims, and three vacationing women who were staying at the lodge where he lived and worked during the busy tourist season and a nature-loving teacher who help kids become stewards of the land she loved made that fatal mistake before they were savagely, sadistically murdered. The biography of serial killer Cary Stayner and his psychopathic crime spree leaves spine-tingling chills, because as far as the outside world was concerned, he was a fairly normal guy who found himself uncontrollably compelled to kill. Stayner has been on death row in California's famed San Quentin for more than 10 years, but for the families of his victims, no punishment is just enough to make up for the vibrant lives Stayner took, making him one of the most depraved American serial killers in contemporary history.

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Serial murder
ISBN : 9780312974572

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Murder at Yosemite by Carlton Smith Pdf

The shocking story of the Yosemite killer, who made headlines with the triple murder of a woman, her teenage daughter, and her friend, has been featured in every major newspaper, including The New York Times, People, Time, and on television shows such as "Dateline NBC."

Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri,Charles R. Farabee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128357253

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Off the Wall by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri,Charles R. Farabee Pdf

Accounts of all known fatal mishaps in Yosemite National Park.

Author : Jeffrey L. Rinek,Marilee Strong
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781946885289

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In the Name of the Children by Jeffrey L. Rinek,Marilee Strong Pdf

"The voice that narrates In the Name of the Children: An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators, which Rinek wrote with the journalist Marilee Strong, sounds warm and humane, qualities missing from much crime writing. Their book is a professional job, filled with illuminating details about the day-to-day operations of the bureau." —New York Times Book Review FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . . In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our children. During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see—and once seen can never forget. There is no more important—or more brutal—job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases. Most famously, Rinek got Cary Stayner to confess to all four of the killings known as the Yosemite Park Murders, an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek's recounting of the confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation. In the Name of the Children takes readers into the trenches of real-time investigations where every second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic repercussions. Rinek offers an insider's perspective of the actual case agents and street detectives who are the boots on the ground in this war at home. By placing us inside the heart and mind of a rigorously honest and remarkably self-reflective investigator, we will see with our own eyes what it takes—and what it costs—to try to keep our children safe and to bring to justice those who prey on society's most vulnerable victims. With each chapter dedicated to a real case he worked, In the Name of the Children also explores the evolution of Rinek as a Special Agent—whose unorthodox, empathy-based approach to interviewing suspects made him extraordinarily successful in obtaining confessions—and the toll it took to have such intimate contact with child molesters and murderers. Beyond exploring the devastating impact of these unthinkable crimes on the victims and their families, this book offers an unprecedented look at how investigators and their loved ones cope while living in the specter of so much suffering.

Author : Dennis McDougal
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504023139

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Mother's Day by Dennis McDougal Pdf

The true story of Theresa Knorr, the twisted child abuser who murdered her daughters—with the help of her sons—told by a former New York Times reporter. In June 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr dumped her daughter Sheila’s body in California’s desolate High Sierra. She had beaten Sheila unconscious in their Sacramento apartment days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. But this wasn’t the first horrific crime she’d committed against her own children. The previous summer, Knorr had shot Sheila’s sister Suesan, then ordered her son to dig the bullet out of the girl’s back with a knife to hide the evidence. The infection that resulted led to delirium—at which point Knorr and her two sons drove Suesan into the mountains, doused her with gasoline, and set her on fire. It would be almost a decade before her youngest daughter, Terry Knorr Graves, revealed her mother’s history of unfathomable violence. At first, she was met with disbelief by law enforcement and even her own therapist. But eventually, the truth about her monstrous abuse emerged—and here, an award-winning journalist details the jealousy, rage, and domineering behavior that escalated into homicide and shattered a family. A former reporter for the New York Times and Los AngelesTimes and the author of true-crime classics including Angel of Darkness, about serial killer Randy Kroft, and Blood Cold, about Robert Blake and Bonny Lee Bakley, Dennis McDougal reveals the shocking depths of depravity behind a case that made headlines across the nation.

Author : J. Edward Gray
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781457556753

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The Greater Good by J. Edward Gray Pdf

It’s 1962. After his first year of law school, AJ O’Leary hires on as a summer ranger in Yosemite’s High Sierra. He has taken a law enforcement job in a patch of wilderness that has witnessed no violent crime in over a century. But innocence is swept aside when four wealthy hikers are found dead within weeks of AJ’s arrival. AJ and Park Naturalist Virginia Alvarez join the FBI in the search for a killer with more targets on his list. Before they finish, they will come face to face with the man who believes some of the privileged few must die to serve The Greater Good. Lawyer and outdoorsman Jim Gray taps his experiences from the legal shark tank and Yosemite’s beautiful High Sierra to create a spellbinding murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The next time you go hiking, you may think twice before venturing down the trail alone. “Gray has written a page turning murder mystery set in the Yosemite he knows so well. His love for that beautiful park obviously matches my own.” - Kenn Bennett, Secrets to Enjoying Yosemite Valley Winner, Best Travel Book, 2011 Global eBook Awards

Author : Don Davis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429903455

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Death Cruise by Don Davis Pdf

For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa Bay. Little did naive mom and two daughters know that behind Chandler's mask of a gracious host lurked a daring and ruthless ex-con, a thief and a liar, a seductive Don Juan who used and discarded wives and children. As they sun serenely sank below the Gulf of Mexico, Chandler suddenly shut down the engines, dropped anchor...and turned into a sadistic torturer. Hog-tying and brutally raping all three, Chandler tossed them overboard -- alive -- with 40-pound cement blocks tied to their necks. With cruel laughter, he spoke his last words to them: "Swim for it." But the dark green waters of Tampa Bay refused to hold his monstrous secret, and after only three days, the bodies of his victims surfaced. If it hadn't been for a dedicated team of detectives and the clues provided by Chandler's neighbors, a depraved killer might have gotten away with his ghastly crime. Instead, he now paces the floors of a Florida prision awaiting his rendezvous with the electric chair.

Author : Jack Rosewood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:1301795498

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Cary Stayner by Jack Rosewood Pdf

Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-17
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429908870

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Blood Will Tell by Carlton Smith Pdf

They Were The Perfect Family. . . For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked closer at the death of Kristine Fitzhugh, there could be only one conclusion. Someone had murdered Kristine in her own home, inflicting a series of horrific blows to the back of her head, and then cleaned up the mess to make it look like an accident. Who would do such a thing? Protesting his innocence, Kenneth Fitzhugh was arrested and tried for the murder of his wife. And as the case progressed, one by one, the hidden secrets of the Fitzhugh family came spilling out. . . Blood Will Tell is the shocking true story of a seemingly happy family and the deadly secrets that led to murder.

Author : Michael Patrick Ghiglieri,Thomas M. Myers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Accidents
ISBN : 0984785809

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Over the Edge by Michael Patrick Ghiglieri,Thomas M. Myers Pdf

Gripping accounts of all known fatal mishaps in the most famous of the World's Natural Wonders.

Author : Nevada Barr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101133880

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High Country by Nevada Barr Pdf

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed to dining room duty; but after a week of waiting tables, she knows the missing employees are only the first indication of a sickness threatening the park. Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic; her new restaurant colleagues regard her with suspicion and fear. Yet when Anna's life if threatened and her temporary supervisor turns a deaf ear, she follows the scent of evil, taking a solo hike up a snowy trial to the high country, seeking answers. What awaits her is a nightmare of death and greed - and perhaps her final adventure.

Author : Arthur Herzog III,Arthur Herzog
Publisher : Arthur Herzog III
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780595183548

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The Woodchipper Murder by Arthur Herzog III,Arthur Herzog Pdf

Even though the Newtown, Connecticut, police listed Helle Crafts' disappearance as a routine missing person case, Keith Mayo, a private investigator, knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: "If anything happens to me don't think it was an accident." Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18, 1986. In the style of a brilliant detective novel, Arthur Herzog skillfully re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true-crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment, promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper.