Coming up. We do have the motive that he just wanted to kill people. There's not much you can do about that.

I hope this is brought to a just end. This is all that we can ask for.

For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime.

It was just over 22 years ago in February 1999 that the news of murders in and around Yosemite National Park started to grab national headlines.

Ever since their daughter, granddaughter, and family friend disappeared right after Valentine's Day. Francis and Carol Carrington have learned to wait.

They're beautiful girls that were just on the verge of growing up.

Days stretched into weeks.

The families kept a hopeful vigil.

Sylvina's parents flew in from Argentina.

By the middle of March, the worst possible news.

The bodies of Carol and Sylvina were found in the trunk of their burned out rental car,

dumped near Sonora. She wouldn't hurt anything or anybody, not even with words.

Investigators found Julie's body a week later near Lake Don Pedro. The Carrington's tried to fill

the hole in their hearts, starting their own reward fund to help other families, and they

quietly waited for a break in the case.

But a break in the case wouldn't come that spring. Instead, a fourth victim was identified in July.

26-year-old Joey Armstrong, a Yosemite woman who worked for the Yosemite Institute, a nonprofit organization.

I'm joined by Walt Gray, longtime morning news anchor at ABC10 in Sacramento.

Walt, what can you remember about the case as reports first came in about three women who disappeared in the park?

Yeah, there were a mom and two girls, a traveling party that had disappeared.

And so obviously when that situation is happening in Yosemite, we're not far from there.

So it becomes a missing person's case, tourists missing, what could have happened. Now,

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