Steven Stayner: The Boy Who Escaped and Saved Another Child

In 1972 seven-year-old Steven Stayner was abducted by Kenneth Parnell and held captive for seven years under a false identity, hidden in plain sight across California.This episode covers the psychological prison Parnell built, Steven's 1980 escape to rescue five-year-old Timothy White, the shockingly lenient sentence, and his difficult return home.Parnell's manipulation using a fake court-custody claimLife in plain sight, enrolled in schools under a new nameThe 1980 abduction of Timothy White as the catalyst to fleeParnell serving only five years due to jurisdictional fracturingSteven's strained homecoming and his death at 24 in 1989