Karen Kilgariff
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 8 Jun
Karen Kilgariff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you'll remember, in 1972, was kidnapped and held captive by a child molester named Kenneth Parnell. Cary was the older brother, and he was... 11 years old. When it happened? Yeah, when it happened. And Stephen, the brother, was held captive more than seven years before escaping. That itself is a fucked up story that you guys should look up.
Well, when you when we talked about that, that was the first time I found out that these two are brothers because I knew about Carrie's murders and I knew about Stephen's kidnapping, but I didn't know they were connected. And that just makes it.
It just, it makes, it boggles the mind, you know, in a way that's like more than just when you think of a serial killer and you're like, how does your brain do that? And then we have this added piece of fucking childhood trauma in there.
Well, so the year after Stephen came back, I'm going to call him Carrie. Carrie's uncle was murdered and Carrie was living with the uncle at the time. But no one considered him a suspect. And Carrie would later claim that his uncle molested him.
Cut to 1997. Cary was hired as a handyman at the Cedar Lodge Motel in El Porto, just outside of the Highway 140 Arc Rock entrance to Yosemite National Park. So just outside Yosemite, Cedar Lodge. The weekend before February 1999,
he was having these murderous fantasies that had become so intense that he knew he was going to murder someone he prepared a murder rape kit containing a rope a roll of duct tape and a serrated kitchen knife and later a gun and a camera and as far as we know other besides his uncle which may or may not have happened this is his first these are his first murders okay
So on Valentine's Day, 1999, Carol's son, who was 42, her daughter, Julie, who was 15, and Sylvina Peloso, who was 16, were his first victims. Carol was initially leery of Carrie when he knocked on their cabin door saying he had to fix a fan in the bathroom. She talked him through the window and didn't want to let him in and only did so after he said he'd go get the manager to like confirm it.
And she was like, no, no, no, no, no. That's OK. You know, the way people do. When they give you the double confirmation.
Right. Then. OK. Yeah. All right. I'll do it.
so but once inside he pulls out a 22 caliber pistol he tells them he's desperate quote and orders them to lie face down on the bed he bounds their hands with duct tape gags them and then he took the two girls into the bathroom he strangles carol with a three foot piece of rope later saying in his taped confession i didn't realize how hard it is to strangle a person it's not easy
but I had very little feeling it was like performing a task.
So maybe don't do it. Yeah, it's harder than one thinks. So after putting her in the trunk of her rented Pontiac, he goes back to the girls, cuts their clothes off, and then he strangles Silviana in the bathroom. And then he sexually assaults Julie in the motel room and then wraps her up Um, and ties, he ties her to the bed. He says he felt like he was in control for the first time in his life.
And he cleaned up the crime scene so well that it appeared that the women had checked out and left when the, when the, um, people came to check when the staff came later to check to see if they were there. They had detected no foul play. Let's see. He even wiped his hair off the bed sheets. And then when the FBI agent asked on tape why he did that, he replied, I watched the Discovery Channel.
Oh, no. Hi, that's all of us. Yep.
Good and bad. Yeah, for sure. So at 4 a.m., he takes Julie out of the motel and drives her away in the rental car with her mother and friend in the trunk. So she's still alive? Yes. Okay. And I don't know. I don't think she knows that those two are dead and in the trunk because he kind of there was two motel rooms that he was going between. And I don't think she ever saw.
She just thought she was separated. Yeah. So she says he says, I didn't know where I was going or what I was doing. I just kept driving and driving. And he said about Julie, she was a very likable girl. He said crying on tape. She was very calm. So Don is approaching. He turns off at Lake Don Pedro and carries Julie up a dirt path to a small clearing overlooking the water.
I told her I wished I could keep her, he said. Then he sexually assaulted her again. Finally, he brushed her hair and fanned it out on the ground beneath her head. I told her I loved her, he said, and then he slit her throat.
I didn't want her to suffer the way the other two did. A too late asshole.
Like, I think because he he choked them manually. He was thinking that it was taking longer. So he slit her throat thinking he was. Comparatively. Yeah. Like thinking he was being compassionate. So he hides her body and he drives the car with the bodies in the trunk as far as he could into the forest.
Then he takes a cab back to Yosemite, pays with the fare with the $150 he stole from Carol's purse. Two days later, he returns to the car with a can of gasoline and scratches, we have Sarah on the hood with a pocket knife. And then he lights the car on fire. Then he drives two hours west and dumped Carol's billfold on a Modesto Street corner to fool the police.
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