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The Valentine Killer Who Saw Bigfoot

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 16th, 2008

Stayner

Lots of attention, needless to say, is being given by the media to the Northern Illinois University shootings on Valentine’s Day. I’ve posted my thoughts about that so-called “rampage” and Valentine’s dangers over at my Copycat Effect blog, here, here, here, and here.

I felt now might be the time at Cryptomundo to publish an email you’ll find below. I’ve been holding onto until it seemed like an appropriate moment to share it. Insights into the mind of a Bigfoot eyewitness who turned into a killer is sometimes more confusing than one can imagine.

Stayner

The following was sent to me by a relative (I’ll withhold the name) of Yosemite Killer Cary Anthony Stayner. Stayner said he saw Bigfoot and sent me drawings of it.

It will be recalled that Stayner carried out his initial murder spree (or at least the one we know about) over Valentine’s weekend in 1999, and used Bigfoot to talk to the park ranger he killed.

This following note, at some level, is downright chilling:

I would like to add as a family member to Carey Stayner, as long as I could remember Carey was out running [and] climbing mountains. I remember when he first had told me and my brother of what he had seen [the Bigfoot], he would go very blank in the face as if he was being very serious or like somebody was watching him. He would tell us about the smell the creature had and that it was alot bigger than him. We were very young but we knew he wasn’t playing a joke on us. I remember when I went to Camp Green Meadows in the 6th grade he told me to stay close to all the teachers and no matter what don’t go out at night. He never really seemed the same to me after he had seen Bigfoot. So to me, maybe that’s what drove him mad? You never know.

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For one of those strange coincidences, in what I call the twilight language of all of this, please note the significance of Valentine’s Day in the legacy of the Stayner family, a Mormon family who had been touched before on Valentine’s Day:

Stayner family’s woeful history
San Francisco Examiner 26 Jul 99 L5
By Zachary Coile and Matthew Yi: Examiner Staff

Merced, California ~ When an FBI agent called Assistant Sheriff Henry Strength on Saturday morning looking for a criminal record of a possible suspect in the murders at Yosemite, he asked for the name Cary Stayner. Knowing the name sounded familiar, Sheriff Strength went to work. He had been a young patrol officer in 1972 when 7-year-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped from the streets of Merced only returning home on Valentine’s Day of 1980, when he walked into a Ukiah police station along with another 5-year-old abductee, Timothy White.

Steven Stayner was an instant hero and the 14-year-old later became the subject of the NBC miniseries “I Know My First Name Is Steven.” “It was a shock,” Strength said. Steven’s brother, Cary, 37, was the prime suspect in the killing of a Yosemite naturalist and an FBI prime suspect in several other murders.

Shock was a familiar reaction to residents of Merced, a San Joaquin Valley city 100 miles from San Francisco. It was here that Steven Stayner was considered a hero for escaping from a child molester in 1980. He later joined the LDS Church, married and had two children, only to die at age 24 in a motorcycle accident, nine years after he escaped.

When 7-year-old Steven was approached by Ukiah hotel clerk Kenneth Parnell, the boy was asked if he wanted to donate something to a church. “I said, ‘Well, yeah. I think my mom might donate something.’” Steven told authorities years later. “He said, ‘OK,’ and gave me these booklets and he asked me if I wanted a ride home.” “And I said, ‘Well, it’s just a little ways, I can walk.’” “He goes,’OK. Don’t worry. I’ll just give you a ride home.’ “And I go,” ‘Well, OK,’ “and so I got in the car.”

This began the seven-year nightmare in which Parnell held and sexually molested Steven. He forced the boy to call him “Dad”, telling him that he was no longer wanted by his parents.

Years later after returning home and putting his life back together, Steven Stayner married at age 24. With two children, he and his family joined the Mormon Church. Assistant Sheriff Strength said Stayner was on the waiting list for a job as a county jail guard.

On September 20, 1989, Steven was riding his new Kawasaki motorcycle without a helmet in the rain. He skidded trying to avoid a car and fatally struck his head. After Steven’s death, his parents sold the family home and moved.

“They did mention about finally getting a chance to get out of here,” said Ennis Mayberry, 36, who bought the house from the Stayner 10 years ago. “They said they wanted to get away and wash away some bad memories.”

In December of 1990 the family was dealt another blow, but not its last. Jesse “Jerry” Stayner, 42, Cary and Steven’s uncle, was shot to death in his Merced home. The murder remains unsolved.

“I was just talking to someone about this. We were talking about the Kennedy family, and all the bad things that have happened to them,” Sherriff Strength said. “Then you have Steven Stayner get kidnapped, and then he comes back and gets killed in a motorcycle accident. Then his uncle gets killed in a homicide. And now this. It happens to all families, I guess.”

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9 Responses to “The Valentine Killer Who Saw Bigfoot”

Judy Green responds: February 16th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Whew! Creepy stuff. I was living in Sacramento at the time of those murders so, of course, the newspapers were overflowing with stories about them. So sad for the parents after what happened to their other son. I was also living in Sacramento when the Zodiac murders occurred, but, of course, they have no connection to Bigfoot as far as I know.
Ceroill responds: February 16th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Hmm. Dim echoes of the old Wendigo legends, perhaps?
eireman responds: February 16th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Lots of people have reported seeing such a creature and done little more than calm their nerves with a stiff drink.
kittenz responds: February 16th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I think it’s much more likely that Carey Staynor’s “madness” had something to do with his older brother Steven’s abduction, abuse, and subsequent return after seven years. Something like that is bound to have a profound effect on the whole family, but especially on siblings.

Maybe Carey Staynor DID see a Bigfoot. Who am I to say? But in this case I think more probably, his “Bigfoot” was a projection of his own disturbed mind, sort of like “the voices told me to do it”.
shumway10973 responds: February 16th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Ok, so he saw a big foot. Apparently that was a long time ago. For being a young person when he saw it, the descriptions and advice (at camp) seems perfectly normal. If I had seen one as a child, I’m sure I would have been torn between getting out there and finding it again, or to stay away and find a normalistic safety net. In order to do what he did in 1999, there had to be some insanity. One psychologist said that insanity is simply the loss of knowing where the boundaries are, or that there are any.
dogu4 responds: February 16th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
The human mind is a landscape we all recognize but can barely understand; and the disturbed mind interprets that landscape in a way different than those of us for whom the features that comprise our commonly shared world are recognized for what they are.

Were it not bigfoot, this disturbed mind, whether as a result of infantile fever or a tumor or some trauma, would probably have latched onto some other feature of the world and misinterpreted it in an effort to integrate the deep interior fear and conflicts with what is supposed to be there.

Of course, in our so called enlightened civilization we still look to punishment, an eye for an eye, and revenge when the mentally ill murder, steal, cheat and exhibit serious anti-social behavior in hopes, we tell ourselves, that it will deter others. As long as evil is interpreted as willfully turning away from some divine order, we will fail to look closely enough to understand the nature of anitsocial behavior and continue to address it in the same old, unproductive, but perversely reassuring way.
KashaPaw responds: February 16th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gotta agree with Ceroill, sounds more like a spin on the old Windigo stories, only less cannibalism.

If anything this seems to lend less credibility to bigfoot witnesses. Just another crazy added to the list.
idle jack responds: February 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I agree with Judy Green. A great post Loren about a murderer who tried to kill bigfoot.
bill green responds: February 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
It is a very sad event that happened.

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