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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

36: Cary Stayner

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Happy Monday Cult Babes….boy do I have a story for you. We’re talking about Cary Stayner a.k.a. The Yosemite Serial Killer. This week’s episode is a 2-for-1 full of some crazy family drama, a kidnapping, and a real creep, enjoy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Cult Leader Early and Add Free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:07.0

You're listening to a morbid network podcast.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. Happy Monday, Cult Baves. I am home and I am happy about it.

0:45.0

Holy shit. Before I can talk about anything, if you didn't see already, you need to go look at the Cult Leader Instagram because this past weekend, two Cult Baves went and got matching Cult Leader tattoos, which just fucking blew my mind.

0:58.0

They came out so good and I have envy. I won one now and it's funny because I was talking about it on a live stream literally the night before.

1:08.0

And so it's just so cool. I was with my sister Olivia and I was we were out shopping and I was like, ah look when I got the notification, it just beyond.

1:19.0

So, fuck, thank you for being in my cult. Thanks for coming.

1:26.0

Someone on Twitter also this weekend was like shout out to Spencer Henry for consistently uploading content. And I'm like, first of all, okay, thank you.

1:35.0

I guess it combat some of the really aggressive DMs that I get. Otherwise, which are like, I really think you should have told us that there wasn't going to be an episode next week.

1:46.0

Guess what? I can't always do that because I like to wait till the last minute. So if you think you're living on the edge waiting on suspense, so am I. Every single week.

1:58.0

But really, I don't know. Sometimes I get busy, but speaking of, I'm going to be out of town the weekend. Whatever weekend is after June 24th.

2:07.0

So we won't have an episode that week because I will not have time to record. And that's it. Goodbye.

2:14.0

Just kidding. That's not it because I have to tell you guys something.

2:18.0

Uh, Carrie Stainer is a murderer. Pass it on. Do you see that? That's my, uh, what's it? That's my segue.

2:27.0

Because we're talking about Carrie Stainer today. And Carrie Stainer was also known as the Yosemite serial killer. And if you're not familiar with this story, it is wild from beginning to end.

2:38.0

And I mean it. Like, as always, we're going to start with his childhood, but that's pretty much like most of the story in itself. Just because like his life was just insane.

2:51.0

Uh, so Carrie Stainer was born on August 13th, 1961 to his mom K and his father, Delbert Stainer.

2:59.0

And Delbert was a name I had never heard before, so I googled it to see what it means. And apparently it means bright, sunny day, which is nice.

3:07.0

And then I looked up my name, which apparently means dispenser of provisions. And I'm really what that means, but it sounds cool.

3:16.0

Uh, any who. So he had three sisters and a younger brother and his family lived in Merced, which is, it's a place in California.

3:27.0

Uh, they call it the gateway to Yosemite. So it's a town known for being the entrance to another place. Like that's their claim to fame is that they're almost something.

3:37.0

Uh, just kidding. I shouldn't shut on it. I know some of you are probably from there, but it's a small farming town in central California.

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