Mendocino County Stories: Steven Staynor & Timmy White Kidnappings
Psych Legal Pop Podcast
Tess & Brooke Brigham
4.2 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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These events took place in and around our hometown of Ukiah, California. In 1972 Kenneth Parnell kidnapped 7 year old Steven Staynor as he walked home from school in Merced California. He told Steven his parents didn't want him anymore and that they had given custody of him to Parnell. In 1976 Parnell moved with Steven to the remote town of Comptche northwest of Ukiah. In 1979 they moved to Manchester, another remote town near the Mendocino coast. On Valentine's Day 1980, 5 year old Timmy White was kidnapped by Parnell walking to his babysitter's house after Kindergarten. He brought Timmy back to the remote cabin where he lived with Steven. Not wanting Timmy to endure the same pain and abuse as he had, while Parnell was working a nightshift Steven heroically set out on foot with Timmy to return him to his home in Ukiah.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Psych Legal Pop podcast. This is a podcast where we talk about popular culture through the lens of an attorney and a therapist. I'm Brooke Brigham. I'm the attorney. And I'm Tess Brigham. I'm the therapist. And today we are going to be talking about the case of Stephen Stainer. Now, this is the first in a series of |
| 0:25.9 | episodes that we're going to do over the next few months or so. I don't know when they're going to |
| 0:33.3 | come out, but of cases that happened in or have some connection to the town where we grew up. |
| 0:43.7 | So we grew up in Mendocino County in a town called Ukiah in northern California. |
| 0:52.0 | It's about two hours north of San Francisco. And my parents moved there |
| 0:56.6 | when I was like two. And then Tess was born there. And then I stayed there through high school, |
| 1:04.7 | graduated from high school. Tess had moved with our mom to Berkeley when she was 10. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.2 | 10. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:13.3 | So it's, it's, I, it's definitely my hometown. |
| 1:17.5 | I guess I quite think of it that way. |
| 1:20.0 | But yeah, we did a whole episode. |
| 1:21.9 | I think it was at Thanksgiving. |
| 1:23.0 | It was our Thanksgiving special episode. |
| 1:24.8 | Thanksgiving special. |
| 1:25.6 | We talked all about, you know, where we grew up and how we grew up and our background, our family and all that kind of stuff if you're interested in that. But... And our father still lives in Yucaya. So we still go up there. We were just there last evening. Yes. And if you're part of our Patreon, you would have found out that we were just there with our dad. |
| 1:47.3 | And what was I going to say? |
| 1:49.5 | And, you know, we have a lot of, we grew up with a lot of people there. |
| 1:53.2 | We have this connection to Yucaya and Mendocino County. |
| 1:56.2 | Yeah, we have a lot of friends. |
| 1:57.5 | Yeah. |
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