S1 Ep46: The Stayner Saga Part 1: Steven’s Gone Missing
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up, |
| 0:13.0 | it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so |
| 0:17.0 | a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really low. |
| 0:24.0 | Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:31.0 | You know the theory of the butterfly effect? You've at least heard it explained in the first Jurassic Park movie. |
| 0:40.0 | Before the self-guided jeeps and the franchise itself went off the rails, a young, super condescending but still somehow really hot, Jeff Goldblum |
| 0:50.0 | leans over to a young, super well-educated but somehow totally naive Laura Dern and explains chaos theory. |
| 0:58.0 | How one event somewhere can catalyze and to change fates everywhere or as he puts it. |
| 1:04.0 | The shorthand is the butterfly effect. A butterfly can flap its wings and be a king and central park you get rain instead of central. |
| 1:11.0 | What if the butterfly flapping its wings is a little boy getting kidnapped? |
| 1:16.0 | And the rain in central park is the tragic murders of four innocent people decades later. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome to Strange and unexplained with me, Daisy Egan. I'm a writer and an actor who knows they've done a lot of episodes recently about little white boys who went missing but promises that this one is different. |
| 1:36.0 | This week, part one of a two-part saga that is the Stainer Brothers tragedy. |
| 1:43.0 | Sometimes I think about how complex and random life is. Everything in your life had to go exactly the way it did in order for you to be right here, right now. |
| 2:05.0 | The good and the bad, regretful decisions and smart ones and the millions of factors out of your control where you were born, what your parents were like, who you ran into on the street on the way home from school, a butterfly flaps its wings. |
| 2:22.0 | On December 4, 1972, seven-year-old Stephen Stainer was walking home from school in Merced, California, a town about two and a half miles southeast of San Francisco near Yosemite National Park. |
| 2:36.0 | The weather was nasty, cold and sleety. When he was about three blocks from home, Stephen was approached by a man who handed him a religious pamphlet, purporting to be raising money for a local church. |
| 2:48.0 | Stephen thought his mother who would raise the family Mormon would likely be willing to donate. |
| 2:54.0 | As he stood there chatting with the stranger, a car pulled up and the man behind the wheel asked if he wanted to ride home. |
| 3:01.0 | The man who'd given Stephen the pamphlet called the driver, minister, and got into the passenger seat. |
| 3:07.0 | And so, little Stephen climbed into the back seat of the stranger's car to get out of the sleet. |
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