In the early ‘80s, the story of Steven Stayner’s childhood abduction and rescue riveted the nation. One December afternoon in 1972, 7-year-old Steven had been walking home in Merced, California, when ...

The new three-part Hulu docuseries Captive Audience explores the tragic story of the Stayner family — specifically the fraught lives of their two sons, Steven Stayner and Cary Stayner. In December ...

America met Steven Stayner twice. The first time, he was a seven-year-old child on a missing person poster, having disappeared without a trace on his way home from school. The second time, he was 14, ...

SAN JOSE — If Cary Stayner’s death could restore the lives he took, ”I say do it,” his mother said in a tearful appeal to jurors Thursday. ”But executing Cary is not going to bring back those people.

Cary Stayner made headlines in 1999 after he terrorized Yosemite National Park, murdering tourists Carole Sund, her daughter Juli Sund and friend Silvina Pelosso, along with park naturalist Joie ...

The tragically separate stories of brothers Steven and Cary Stayner, both of which gripped the Modesto region along with the entire country, will be relived Friday in a special two-hour program on ABC ...

SAN JOSE — A jury declared Wednesday that Yosemite murderer Cary Stayner should be executed for the slaying of three women tourists, killings that rattled the serenity of the Sierra woods in 1999. The ...

SAN JOSE -- Moments after the prosecutor painted a graphic picture of the 1999 murders of three Yosemite tourists, Cary Stayner's lawyer acknowledged Monday that the former motel handyman committed ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decision to give a moratorium to the 737 inmates on California’s death row was met with opposition from Mariposa County law enforcement. The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office and ...

Was Cary Stayner too mentally impaired to plan the murders of three Yosemite tourists, or was he an organized killer living out his longtime sexual fantasies of death and torture? That's the question ...

A San Jose jury took Cary Stayner one step closer to San Quentin's death chamber Monday, finding him guilty of the premeditated murders of three Yosemite sightseers. Jurors deliberated for a little ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A woman has been arrested after she allegedly stole the identities of convicted murderers Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner to steal more than $145,000 in fraudulent unemployment ...