Cary Stayner was convicted in the 1999 murders of 42-year-old Carole Sund, her 15-year-old daughter Juli, their 16-year-old family friend Silvina Pelosso and Joie Armstrong, a 26-year-old Yosemite naturalist, according to History. "Hes ready to kill again. Steven's parents were devastated by their son's disappearance and the lack of witnesses or any evidence in the case. On September 16, 1989, Steven Stayner was driving home from work on a California highway after work one rainy evening and got into a deadly collision with a car that turned in front of him. Mr. White was 5 years old when he was kidnapped in 1980 by Kenneth Parnell, a convicted child molester. You know, hung out with him, played with him.. Stayner waited until Parnell had gone to his night shift job as a clerk at a local motel on March 1, 1980 and, carrying White on his back, hitchhiked 40 miles to Ukiah. He had three sisters and an older brother, Cary. American sex offender, child rapist and kidnapper (19312008), Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Youth Abducted Seven Years Ago Goes Home Again", "Alleged attempt to buy child leads to arrest of kidnapper", "Sex Offender Kenneth Parnell Dies in Vacaville", "Steven and Cary Stayner: The tale of two brothers' horror and heroism", "Kenneth Parnell, kidnapper of Steven Stayner, dies at 76", "Kenneth Eugene Parnell, A Notorious Child Molester Dies In Prison", abducted man posing pastor launched-daring-escape, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kenneth_Parnell&oldid=1133639900, American people convicted of child sexual abuse, American people who died in prison custody, Prisoners who died in California detention, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from May 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 20:40. But in 1980, the Stayners prayers were answered when Steven returned home after a seven-year disappearance. "Merced was the lead police department, and so they really mounted a large effort to search. Everything has changed. When he was 24, he died in a hit-and-run motorcycle accident. Parnell was sentenced to 20 months in prison for Steven's. Parnell, 76, died at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville on Monday, corrections officials said Tuesday.
