That general area had another tragedy in 1999.

Remember serial killer Cary Stayner? He was a handyman at the Yosemite Cedar Lodge, which isn't really in Yosemite, but is actually in a small community called Incline, west of Yosemite.

Yosemite Cedar Lodge is basically where you stay if you want to see Hite Cove, which as I mentioned, is famous for the wildflowers. That's the only hotel in the area, and it's right there at the road to the Hite Cove Trail.

A mother, daughter, and teenage family friend were staying at Yosemite Cedar Lodge, and Stayner used his position as the handyman to get them to let him in. At that point, he murdered the mom and the teen family friend, and then raped the 16-year-old daughter and murdered her, as well. He later attacked a 26-year-old female naturalist living in a remote area nearby, and while she fought back and somewhat injured him, he ultimately murdered her, as well. Shoddy police work allowed him to get away with it for awhile, but eventually the police pieced everything together, and arrested him. He immediately confessed to everything, and directed authorities to the remaining bodies.

Some have said that the Yosemite Cedar Lodge is "haunted" since that incident.

Stayner was coincidentally the older brother of Steven Stayner, a famous early 1970s kidnap and rape victim, who was later the subject of a TV movie, after he helped save a younger boy later kidnapped by the same criminal. Steven died in a motorcycle accident in 1989.

Anyway, these Yosemite Cedar Lodge murders took place only a little bit north of where Gerrish and his family were found dead, albeit 22 years apart.