S1 Ep40: Steven Stayner
Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing
Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing
4.0 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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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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