Steven Stayner

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On December 4th, 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner was abducted while walking home from school. Steven's abductor, Kenneth Parnell, manipulated Steven into thinking his family didn't want him and had made Kenneth his guardian.

Join Mike and Morf as they discuss the infamous abduction of Steven Stayner. Kenneth Parnell was a master manipulator and had previous convictions. He abused Steven for many years, moving around often and changing Steven's name. It wasn't until Parnell abducted another young boy that Steven made the decision, he could not let what happened to him happen to his boy. He got up the courage to take the boy to the police station and both were rescued. The story made headlines.

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0:00.0	Criminology is a true crime podcast that may contain discussion about violent or disturbing topics.
0:05.9	Listener discretion is advised. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 37 of the Criminology Podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson.
0:43.2	And this is Mike Morford.
0:45.1	Morph, how are you doing this week?
0:47.0	I'm doing good. A little bit chilly here in Florida and I've, you know, we're doing some football
0:51.1	out there with my son and, you know, you don't know how to dress because at practice one day, it's really warm.
0:56.8	But then, you know, the game two days later might be freezing.
1:00.7	You know, freezing to me is like 60 degrees.
1:03.3	So, you know, a little bit of that going on.
1:06.4	How about you?
1:07.3	Yeah, meanwhile, we're stuck here in snow and ice.
1:10.2	So don't tell me about your shorts weather on some days. I don't want to hear it. Now, I'm doing okay. My wife gave me her flu, I think is what it is. I don't know. She was sick for about a week. And then as she was starting to get better,
1:28.5	I,
1:29.0	you know,
1:29.9	inevitably caught it.
1:31.8	That's kind of how it goes in a lot of household.
1:34.8	So that's what we're going around.
1:36.5	Going around a lot right now.
1:37.8	So hopefully you feel better quick.
1:39.6	Yeah.
1:39.8	I've talked to a lot of people who,
1:41.8	uh,
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