Cary Stayner is dead or still alive? Where Is from Hulu's Captive Audience Now?

Hulu’s newest true crime documentary, Captive Viewers: The True American Horror Story, chronicles the true events of the Stener family, which are a mix of endless tragedy and horror.

When viewers learn of the misadventures Steven Stener experienced at age 7 – after being kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell before returning to his family at 14 – the series also chronicles the 1999 episode for Stener Another nightmare unfolds for the family.

Steven returned home after heroism in 1980 (he helped 5-year-old Timothy White escape the same kidnapper), Parnell was arrested and died in prison in 2008 while serving a life sentence , at the age of 76.

A few years later, tragedy struck again when Steve was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1989. White also died young at the age of 35 after suffering a pulmonary embolism in 2010.

Just when the Steiner family thought they’d seen it all, another incredible thing happened – Steven’s brother Cary was convicted of murder and the family made headlines again.

Here’s everything you need to know about Cary’s criminal past and where he is today.

What crime did Gary Turner commit?

\Motel repairman Cary Stayner, seen on the July 29, 1999 Reservations Cup, was charged with murdering three Yosemite tourists on Wednesday, October 20, 1999. The lawsuit, filed by Mariposa District Attorney Kristin Johnson, charges Stener with three counts of murder and exceptional circumstances that could carry the death penalty.

In 1999, Cary was arrested for the murder of a young woman named Joy Ruth Armstrong in Yosemite, California. Naturalist Armstrong, 26, was found beheaded in the wooded area of ​​a national park near her home.

According to the New York Times, Cary confessed to killing Armstrong in an off-camera prison interview in Sacramento after his arrest, as well as murdering Carol Sand, 42, and her 15-year-old daughter Julie Sand. With Jolie’s friend 16-year-old Silvina Peloso. .

Cary was a janitor and stayed at the Cedar Inn in Yosemite, the motel where the three of them stayed. In his prison interview, he said he killed the women “because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

According to the New York Times, before Cary’s murder spree, “he said he dreamed of killing women for 30 years before finding his moment in February”. A week before Armstrong was beheaded, he said: “He couldn’t resist the temptation to kill again.”

What is Gary Turner’s verdict?

Convicted Yosemite killer Cary Turner has been escorted out of Mariposa County court to face charges in the killing of three park visitors who stayed at the motel where he worked as a handyman on the edge of Yosemite National Park. Turner is charged with the murders of Carol Sand, 42, her daughter Julie, 15 (Eureka, Calif.), and Argentine Silvina Pelosso, 16. Turner had previously been sentenced to life without parole for the death of naturalist Joie Armstrong.

Cary was not initially charged with murder, but the FBI was brought to him as he left behind a trove of evidence. Because they found Armstrong’s vehicle near his cabin, Jeff Lineker (the FBI agent working on Cary’s case at the time) said they wanted to use him as a “natural witness for the interview,” according to ABC. Company news reports.

After Armstrong’s murder, Cary fled to a nudist colony and was found and questioned by the FBI — where he confessed to her killing, and told the FBI, according to FBI Special Agent John Boles Described the behavior as “as if he was reading a soup label”. Cary quickly confessed to killing three other women.

Cary was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2002.