The Yosemite Killer and the abduction of Stephen Stainer, that's what we're sucking today.

Something Carrie Stainer, the Yosemite Killer, might have been able to avoid his dark urges

if some horrible events hadn't have happened to him and around him as a child.

Keyword might.

Carrie Stainer was born to seemingly normal middle-class parents, Delbert and Kay Stainer

in Merced California in 1961.

And Carrie seemed to have had a fairly normal upbringing until when he was 11, two things happened.

He was molested by an uncle and his little brother, Stephen Stainer, was abducted by notorious

pedophile and kidnapper Kenneth Parnell, who kept Stephen for seven years.

Seven years. While these years were absolutely more horrific for Stephen, it was also seven years

of Carrie living in an emotionally broken home. A home where his parents didn't pay attention to him,

where the media was constantly covering his brother's kidnapping, where neighbors and classmates

stared at him, asked him about his brother, seven years of that. Carrie found respite in Yosemite

National Park, camping and hiking in the mountains. It was the only place where he felt at peace,

even after Stephen was returned to the family. Then there would be more tragedy. Stephen would die

young in a motorcycle crash, and Carrie's uncle would get murdered, a case that's still unsolved,

while Carrie was living with him. Then Carrie would kill four women in the spring and summer of 1999,

and then thankfully he'd be caught before killing at least three others he had already made plans

to murder. Was Carrie's stainer always destined to be a killer? Or did his brother's abduction,

and his molestation, and his uncle's murder all combine to push him over the edge?

And what the hell went on during his brother's seven year long abduction? What was Kenneth

Parnell doing to him? Who is Kenneth Parnell? Two sucks in one episode today. Really three.

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