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California Gov. Newsom imposed an indefinite moratorium on the death penalty in ; prisoners sentenced to death are not eligible for parole. Perhaps the strangest serial killer in modern California history, Cary Stayner, 61, has a backstory like no other. In , when Cary was 11, his younger brother Steven was kidnapped by a sexual predator.

For years, the family was held in suspended animation, not sure if he was dead or alive. Incredibly, Steven escaped with another boy the man had kidnapped. While his brother was a hero, Cary grew up to be a monster.

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He got a job as a handyman at a Yosemite-area motel and there brutally murdered two women and two teen girls over the course of a few months in His car linked him to the crimes, and he was arrested later that year; in , he was convicted and sentenced to death. Shermantine and Loren Herzog grew up together in Linden, San Joaquin County, and, as adults, shared the addiction to methamphetamine that would give them their moniker.

Throughout the mids until , the pair came into contact with more than a dozen people who would end up missing. Once in custody, investigators realized they had a much bigger case on their hands: More victims were found in a well in Linden. Another half of a serial killer duo, Charles Ng met his partner in crime while fleeing the Marines in after allegedly stealing weapons from a military base.

Ng was busted for shoplifting at a hardware store in South San Francisco in , leading authorities to the Wilseyville cabin. Ng was convicted in of 11 murders. He is now A petty criminal, Naso was visited by law enforcement when he skipped out on his probation in ; at his Reno home, they found a journal with the names of 10 women and 10 locations.