S1 Ep40: Steven Stayner

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In December 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner was kidnapped as he was walking home from school. Sadly, this was just the start of the tragedies for the Stayner family.

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0:00.0	Hello and thanks for joining us for the 40th episode of Into the Killing. If this is your first episode,
0:07.1	we really appreciate you giving us a chance and hopefully you find it interesting. If you listen to
0:11.9	other episodes, thank you so much for coming back and listening again. We would not have gone to 40
0:16.9	episodes without your support. In this week's episode, we're going to take a look at a case that arguably had horrifying consequences years later.
0:26.1	For this episode, we're going back to the winter of 1972. On November 27, 1972, the Count made his debut on Sesame Street.
0:35.8	Two days later, Atari released the arcade game, Pong,
0:39.4	which was the first video game to be commercially successful.
0:42.8	In 1972, the biggest movie of the year was Francis Ford Coppola's classic, The Godfather.
0:48.9	In early December, the number one movie was the biographical drama film, Lady Sings the Blues,
0:59.0	which is loosely based on the autobiography of jazz singer Billy Halladay. The song that was at the top of the Billboard charts was I Am a Woman by Holland Reddy.
1:08.0	In early December, the Stainer family was living in Mercy, California.
1:17.7	Delbert and Kay Stainer had two sons and three daughters, Carrie, Stephen, Cynthia, Corey, and Jody.
1:25.9	Overall, the family was a happy one. They did have spats, but that's not unusual with a family that has five children.
1:35.3	Stephen was an outgoing young boy, and despite being told not to, he would talk to strangers.
1:43.3	On the afternoon of December 4, 1972, all the Stainer children who were school age went to school.
1:52.0	Tragically, Stephen didn't come home.
1:55.0	His parents looked around the neighborhood for him, but they couldn't find any trace of him.
2:00.0	They called the police and a more extensive search was conducted. around the neighborhood for him, but they couldn't find any trace of him.
2:04.4	They called the police and a more extensive search was conducted.
2:09.1	But no trace as seven-year-old Steven Steiner was found.
2:14.4	Stephen's disappearance punched a hole in the family's life.
2:19.9	He consumed the thoughts of Delbert and Kay, and they were desperate for answers.
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