Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder.

Murderers, rapists, and kidnappers often choose to shift blame away from themselves, pointing the finger

at some kind of traumatic event that changed the course of their lives and made them turn towards

crime. Detectives and criminal psychologists also examine the upbringing and history of killers,

searching for anything that might have acted as a turning point.

Molestation, abandonment, violence,

but for one serial killer, his turning point was a little more unusual,

the childhood kidnapping of his own younger brother.

Carrie Stainer had three sisters, but only one brother, Stephen, who was four years younger than Carrie. When Stephen was seven years old, he disappeared. Although his family had no

idea what happened to him, Stephen was being held captive less than 40 miles away, kept in the

house of the man who abducted him, a pedophile by the name of

Kenneth Parnell. By the time seven years had passed, the chances of Stephen still being alive

were slim to none. Even before Stephen went missing, Carrie had not been like the other kids.

He'd always been anxious, developing

trichotillomania as a toddler, which made him pull out his own hair. Despite medication,

he continued to compulsively pluck the hair from his scalp, causing bald spots that the other

kids made fun of him for. Later, he reported having dark sexual fantasies from a very

young age, imagining kidnapping, raping, and killing women even before his own brother became

the victim of the same kind of criminal. Stephen's abduction became the center of Carrie's teenage

years. While his parents grieved Stephen, their older son felt neglected and pushed aside.

He was shockingly intelligent and creative, but none of his academic pursuits satisfied him.

His dark fantasies got stronger and stronger in his teenage years,

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