• Journey Into Darkness: The Stayner Brothers Part 2

  • Dec 6 2024
  • Length: 52 mins
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Journey Into Darkness: The Stayner Brothers Part 2

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  • When we left you at the end of Part 1, fourteen year old Steven Stayner had escaped from seven years of captivity and abuse at the hands of child predator Kenneth Parnell—and he’d rescued Parnell’s next intended victim, a little boy named Timmy White. The story made international headlines, and Steven Stayner became his hometown’s living legend. It was March 1980, both boys were back home safe and Kenneth Parnell was behind bars where he belonged, waiting to go to trial. It seemed like a happy ending. But the story doesn’t end there. The second half of the Stayner saga is even darker than the first. Justice is denied. Secrets come to light. And another member of the family lets his most depraved fantasies cross over to real life.

    Big thanks to Mike Moran of the podcast Confessional with Mike Moran for doing much of the work/research on this one and last week's!

    Sources:
    Wikipedia: Cary Stayner
    A&E's American Justice, episode The Yosemite Killer
    The Crime Reel: Part 2 of The Troubled Lives of the Stayner Brothers
    Casefile (podcast): Yosemite Sightseer Murders Parts 1 and 2
    CBS News: The Yosemite Murders
    SF Gate: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/defense-to-fight-for-stayner-s-life-lawyers-2820211.php

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