Stayner Steven

American missing child, he was kidnapped in 12/1972 by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. After being grabbed off a street in Merced, CA he was kept for seven years, brain-washed and sexually abused. On 2/14/1980 Parnell snatched another boy, five-year old Timmy White. About three weeks later, on 3/01/1980, Steven walked into a Ukiah, CA police station in order to save Timmy. Parnell was arrested and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, of which he served five. On 5/23/1989 a drama aired on NBC entitled "I Know My First Name Is Steven," the network paid Stayner $30 thousand for his story. Eventually he got a job delivering pizzas. In 1985 Stayner married Jody Edmondson; they had two kids. He was killed in a hit-and-run traffic accident on 9/16/1989 when a car pulled into the path of his motorcycle 70 miles east of San Francisco, CA. He was riding without a helmet at the time and suffered massive head injuries. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less