Steven Stayner Parents: Who Are Kay Stayner And Delbert Stayner?

Steven Gregory Stayner was an American kidnapping victim.

On December 4, 1972, seven-year-old Steven Stayner was abducted in Merced, California, by child molester Kenneth Parnell.

On the afternoon of December 4, 1972, Steven Stayner was approached on his way home from school by a man named Ervin Edward Murphy, who had become acquainted with convicted child rapist Kenneth Parnell as they both worked at a resort in Yosemite National Park.

Edward Murphy, described by those who knew him as a trusting, naïve, and simple-minded man, had been enlisted by Parnell (who had passed himself off to Murphy as an aspiring minister) into helping him abduct a young boy so that Parnell could “raise him in a religious-type deal,” as Murphy later stated.

Steven Stayner was held by his abductor 38 miles (61 km) away in Mariposa County, California, and later in Mendocino County, California, until he was 14, when he managed to escape with another of Parnell’s victims, Timothy White.

Steven Stayner was the third of five children born to Delbert and Kay Stayner in Merced, California.

Steve Stayner had three sisters and an older brother, Cary.

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