| Show ivf'r'5 A tv" i ' West Standard-Examin- Yosemite killer sentenced to The Associated Press - FRESNO Calif A motel handyman was sentenced to life without parole Thursday for beheading a Yosemite National Park naturalist clearing the way for his trial in the grisly slayings of three tourists Under a plea bargain that spared him the possibility of a death sentence Cary Stayner 39 admitted he killed Joie Arm-stron-g last year after kidnapping and trying to sexually assault her “I gave in to the terrible dark dreams that I fried to subdue” a sobbing Stayner shackled and wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit said in federal court “The craziness that lurked in my mind for as long as I can remember became a reality in this terrible crime and I am sorry and ashamed” Stayner is also accused of killing Yosemite tourists Carole Sund 42 her daughter Juli 15 and their Argentine friend Silvina Pelos-s- o 16 Prosecutors have not said whether they will seek the death penalty The three were last seen alive in February 1999 at a motel where Stayner lived and worked More than a month later a burned rental car was found abandoned along logging road In the trunk were the bodies of Mrs Sund and Pelosso Juli Sund’s body was I found later in a thicket Armstrong’s headless body was found in the woods near where she lived in the park Stayner was arrested three days later after a sweeping investigation and manhunt that began five months earlier when the three tourists disappeared In court Armstrong’s mother Lesli wept as he addressed her “I wish I could take it back but I can't” Stayner told her “I wish I could tell you why I did such a thing but I don’t even know my- self” Stayner’s statement in court potentially could be used at his future trial He avoided o killings as any reference to the he expressed his sorrow and shame “If there is a God in heaven I pray for his forgiveness” a sobbing Stayner read “I cannot expect any forgiveness from Mrs Armstrong or her family for taking Joie from them I cannot even ask forgiveness from my own family who I have hurt so deeply and who have already suffered so much” Stayner’s mother and father sat in the front row of the courtroom their heads bowed as they wiped tears from their eyes Sund-Peloss- They left the courthouse without ment- face ruptures indicate a greater likelihood of shallow quakes that could cause greater damage in the immediate area research geologist Brian Sherrod said SEATTLE - 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