Stayner's wife, Jodi, who The Spokesman-Review reported married Steven when she was 16, said he was her first love and the couple met in high school. When Parnell kidnapped 5-year-old Timothy White that year, Stayner fled on foot along with the kindergartner and then hitchhiked to safety, a journey that thrust the two kidnapping survivors into the national spotlight. While Steven was a freshman at Mendocino High School, some 300 miles to the south, his older brother Cary was an upperclassman at Merced High School. Steven Stayner, 24, Kidnaped as Boy, Dies in Motorcycle Crash Steven's parents were devastated by their son's disappearance and the lack of witnesses or any evidence in the case. Authorities had already interviewed him once before about the other three murders, but at the time he hadnt raised any red flags. He was kidnapped. Stayner was considered a hero for saving White from years of sexual and physical abuse. "He and Ervin Murphy got into Ken's big, white Buick and drove into Merced.". He returns to Merced triumphant. "Merced was the lead police department, and so they really mounted a large effort to search. The brothers, four years apart in age, shared a room, but didnt get along, according to Rowlands. Woman recalls moment family learned they were target of 1999 Yosemite On Dec 4, 1972 at age 7, he was abducted in California by Kenneth Parnell. When 14-year-old Steven Stayner turned up at a police station, more than seven years after he was kidnapped while walking home from . His grades faltered, and he dropped out, per the Los Angeles Times. Steven Stayners fame was short-lived. He'd bought a brand new white and blue Kawasaki EX-500 motorcycle with money from a miniseries based on his childhood kidnapping, called "I Know My First Name Is Steven." Steven Stayner died in 1989. Steven Stayner - Kidnap Victim, Timeline and Life - Famousbio Accident or not, someone lost their life. On the afternoon of December 4, 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner was walking home from school in Merced, California, when he was approached by a man passing out religious pamphlets. They no longer want you.. Steven was told his new name was Dennis Parnell and was enrolled in school. On March 1, 1980, in Mendocino County, California, he and Timothy White, another of Parnell's victims, managed to flee. "Cary was very upset," childhood friend Mike Marchese told ABC News in a 1999 interview. He died behind bars in 2008 from natural causes.

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