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Morning News

Relatives of Three Slain Women Return to Yosemite to Remember

Aired February 16, 2000 - 9:32 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: It has been a year since three women disappeared while touring Yosemite National Park in California. The women were killed and their bodies were later discovered. Yesterday, relatives went back to Yosemite to reflect and to remember the lives of these three women.

The story now from reporter Michelle Hoflan (ph) of our affiliate KTXL.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MICHELLE HOFLAN, KTXL REPORTER (voice-over): These women don't want to be here. They need to. They retrace the final steps a killer force 15-year-old Julie Sund, her mother, Carol, and family friend Silvina Pelloso to take exactly one year ago.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I haven't been ready to come up here until now. I've been afraid to come.

HOFLAN: The sightseers were Vicky Caton's (ph) sister-in-law and niece, Kim Peterson's (ph) friend and Carol Carington's (ph) daughter and granddaughter.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have to get through this time and through the sorrow that we can't get away from and do as much positive things as we can.

HOFLAN: Down this forgotten road in the Sierra, flowers mark where the killer abandoned Carol's rental car and set it on fire, Carol and Silvina's body stuffed in the trunk.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love you, Carol and Julie and Silvina.

HOFLAN: The women weep, remember the terror and pain, and smile recalling found memories.

Next, a 45-minute trip southwest, a scenic spot overlooking lake Don Pedro.

(on camera): This is the toughest site to visit. The family knows that Carol and Silvina were already dead by the time they were taken to the other place, but here Julie was alive, and she almost certainly knew that she was about to be killed as she walked down this path. (voice-over): It's an emotional and difficult walk.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I kept thinking of my niece alone with that -- with him and being scared out of her mind, and it was horrible.

HOFLAN: The women struggle down the slippery-steep slope, where the killer discarded Julie's body.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel like I'm honoring them a little bit doing this, that I'm just bringing back the good memories.

HOFLAN: Their fresh flowers add to the growing collection of mementos complete strangers leave behind.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But I'm glad I came, and I'm glad Carol was with me (OFF-MIKE) Carol was with me.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you.

HOFLAN: As Vicky, Carol and Kim leave, they discover a powerful poem someone left on this remote hillside.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A mother and a daughter and a friend from far away, I do not know them, have never met them, but my heart aches for these three and I find myself praying for their family.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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