It was absolutely incredible. The moment that Steven Stayner is abducted is the moment this story really begins. Theres going to be a homecoming. You would imagine sheer joy, that the entire family would be ecstatic. But one member is not so thrilled. He was cold. Hateful. A vicious, vicious killer. Buzz hes more vicious than that. We have recovered two bodies. You can never imagine something so heinous happening in and around yosemite. This is a story that decades later, theyre still talking about it. You should never let your guard down. Maybe, just maybe, well find this girl alive. He was handsome, warm, he was like a big teddy bear. He was just our friend. It was frightening to think what he was thinking the whole time. This is yosemite. These things dont happen in yosemite. Yosemite actually means the people who kill. I had the knife with me. You never expect so much terror to happen in such a beautiful place. This story starts in merced, california. Its in the middle of nowhere,
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