Entertainment Tonight on the TV miniseries I Know My Name is Steven. Includes interviews with Cindy Pickett, John Ashton and Steve Stayner, who is seen on set playing a small role in the film.
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I was best friends with Steven and was with him the day he was kidnapped. We walked home from school all the time together as he lived close by. Even though I was only 7 at the time I still remember his mom calling my house looking for him after school. Merced was a safe town were kids would play and be kids. This changed that forever on that day.
Mr. Masterson, You were blessed to know the real Steven Stayner so blessed. I watched this movie many years ago and also in more recent times and I found it very very moving. What was Steven really like. I would have loved to have met him. How sad it was that he died so tragically young.
Stevens story is so inspiring, AND NOT ONLY THAT, HOPEFULLY PARENTS WILL LEARN, AND KEEP AN EYE ON THEIR CHILDREN, AND ALWAYS HAVE SOMEONE WITH THEM, DON'T LET THEM WALK ALONE TO OR FROM SCHOOL.
Were you really his friend that is awesome. I saw that movie as a kid and it had a lasting effect on me. I was always careful when my I was without my parents as a kid bc of this movie
Corin Nemec was a young actor at the time and he was nominated for an Emmy and he should have won for this TV series. Always tell your children about Stranger Danger and don't trust people and always be aware of your surroundings. This was not Steven's fault and he was only 7 yrs old. This story is so sad b/c he died and so did Timmy White and there was no happy endings and Cary Stayner became a serial killer. Steven's children are doing well now that they are older. Steven Stayner will always be a hero.
Same. This is new to me, I'm 21 but I've been familiar with this story since I was about 12. I've researched it a lot, so it's bizarre that I've never seen this before. This is my first time hearing his voice
This movie was very well documented. Steven was such a brave soul, to have gone through all of this from such a young age. He dealt with so much trauma, from being kidnapped and made to believe his parents did not want him, sexual and emotional abuse. Steven seemed to start realising things were not quite right with his so called new Dad in his teens. This was when Steven could invite friends around to smoke and drink. His friends thinking Steven had a cool Dad but Steven could see the sexual advances being made towards his mates. When Parnell snatched the second child, Steven was so courageous to help that child by taking him to escape and going to the police. Going back home must have been like living with strangers again. Steven was used to living an unruly life with no boundaries. He must have been dealing with so much hurt, anger and grieve inside. It is so sad that as much as he tried to get on with his life and supporting his wife and children, Steven was still struggling with his own demons. So much had happened to this one person in such a short time of his life. RIP Steven.
Sad there was no support when he went home. His loving mother decided he didnt need any therapy help and the poor kid was bullied and teased thruout his remaining teen years.
Can't get my head around how Parnell kept getting off so lightly with all of his previous convictions. Then he gets off lightly AGAIN for what he did to Steven . WTF !!!!!!!!
It's the California legal system, which has a history (specifically more recently) of very lenient sentencing guidelines for some rather heinous crimes. I never understood how he kept getting off either. It's not like he was a wealthy man with power, connections and access to fancy lawyers. I think that he always just had public defenders. So I think he just lucked out through the years with easy going judges.
The laws regarding kid fucking are simply nowhere near as severe as they need to be now 30 years later, and were even more atrocious back then. MOST kids won’t talk about it, and NONE wants to testify in court. Can you imagine the humiliation of a 14 year old boy, newly sexually mature, telling a room full of reporters, your family, strangers that you got raped repeatedly for 7 years? Thats why Steven is a legit hero. He wanted a book, he wanted a movie, he wanted to tell his story to save other kids who were being held captive and manipulated like he was. Its insanely courageous, and he got beaten up over and over again at school and called a “fag”. Sadly his life ended early. Wish he could have lived to see happiness. Even more shocking js that this kid, nor his family had ANY therapy or meetings with any counselors at all. I mean, I know it was the 80’s but JFC, if there was ever a time... I think life in prison, or castration works for me.....if you’re caught raping a child. Chemical castration is very easy. No expensive surgeries.
Just when you thought Steven Stayner story couldn't get any more tragic, he passed away, a mere 5 mos after this video clip aired, on September 16, 1989. Apparently, the motorcycle he'd been driving on his way home from work, was involved in a fatal motor vehicle collision. Steve was just 24 years old; a married father of 2 young children of his own.
That was Arliss Howard, a character actor. I don't know why he didn't take a credit. Maybe he felt since the character was such a scumbag, he felt it was wrong.
I remember this story, because my folks and I and some of my relatives were in Napa that day, when we got the news on the radio, that Steven stainer and Timmy White had been rescued, and saved, that Steven, was actually the hero! I'm sure Steven's story has saved thousands of lives if not more, and make people more aware, to be really careful, watch out, and try and bring the children back home! That was Steven Stainer's goal, bringing kidnapped children back home, alive and well! Saving children's lives! Protecting children!
Right. I feel bad cause Steven went thru hell and managed to come out on the other side happy with his own family then tragically dies. Its not fair. Now Timmy dies too. At least they are together in heaven. Parnell is in hell. I don't know what to think about Carey. He did say he had these feelings way before Steven was kidnapped. So he was always sick. I couldn't imagine what the parents are going thru. You have a hero son and a murderer.
I feel so sad for what Steven went through ,and the cops are useless why would they let a freak like Parnell out after 5 years, Steven must have lived in constant fear.and I wouldn't be surprised if Parnell had something to do with Stevens car accident. Steven was a good kid and a hero for saving Timmy .Peace to Steven ✝️
What’s really bizarre is that Steven Stayner died shortly after this movie was made and his brother Cary Stayner is the Yosemite killer who’s on death row right now for killing 4 women.
Sad he died at the age of 24! So many things happened to this man and he survived it and he had his family and he was married and had children. He died after this TV series aired. I saw the whole TV show and I have it on DVD. Always tell your kids about Stranger Danger and don't trust people.
Sad that Steven Stayner died 5 months after this video at 24 y/o after being killed by a hit & run driver & Timmy became an L.A. Sheriff's Deputy who died at 35 y/o from a pulmonary embolism.
Right. I was so upset to hear Steven died so young. Then his brother a serial killer? Now Timmy dies. It shouldn't have been like that. At least Steven and Timmy are together in heaven and Parnell is burning in hell
It's disgusting that Steven and Timmy's paedophile abductor only got 5 years! I hope he got what he did to those boys every damn day he served! Terrified and unable to fight back! I watched this movie. Why did the press have to report that that FREAK raped him for 7 years? Poor Steven couldn't go back to school without being bullied. They called him a fag, etc... So tragic! That paedo should be dead by now rotting in HELL!!! Same for his disgusting pervert friend!!!😱😠🤬
If only Steven Stayner would have lived long enough to see the attitudes toward victims of child sexual abuse, particularly boys, change. I wish Steven would have been permitted to get counselling as that would have helped him a great deal I think. Just sad and tragic all around! :(
Five months after this E.T. Report Steven was killed in a motorcycle accident, his brother Cary became a serial killer who killed four women. He is currently serving time in Merced CA.
All my mom had to do was show me that lifetime movie as a kid and it made me aware and scared to not have that happen to me. I was born in 1986 and have two daughters now that I make sure are never in a position to have that happen to them.
to me Stevens life was just heartbreaking. I'm glad he hd a wife and a family of his own at the end. Its so sad that just when he was finding happiness and a little peace that he died a such a tragic death at such a young age. He never really had a life until he got married and had children and that didn't last long. R.I.P Steven. you deserve peace
Having just rewatched the tv series recently after years of first hearing stevens story (and now that I’m 24 myself), this is also the first video I’ve seen of Steven as an adult. Sad knowing that just months later he’d be dead. His life was tragic. He only had 7 normal innocent years with his family, got the same amount of years taken away from him after that plus sexual abuse, and then had a hard time readjusting to life back with his family and classmates. He never had a normal childhood or teenage years. I’m glad he was able to get married and have kids before the end of his life, but he deserved so much more time and should still be here with us today. RIP Steven Gregory Stayner
Well Steven Stayner died in a car accident he was riding his bike home from work and got killed he was only 24. He died in 1989! He never had a chance at a normal life. So sad! I don't know what runs in the Stayner family demon blood because his older brother became a serial killer. Yeah your right, the kidnapping destroyed the entire family they were never the same after that! If it wasn't for Steven to save Timmy it would have happened to some other kid. Steven will always be a hero. Sad he never got a chance to live his life and see his kids grow up. He was raped over and over again I can't imagine what his emotions were like what was going the inside. He suffered alot!
5 months after this interview he was killed on the motorcycle he bought from what he earned from the making of his movie. The hit and run was caused by an Illegal immigrant by the name of Antonio Loera, who only had to pay a $100 fee and 90 days in jail...an absolute miscarriage of justice. Not once but twice!!!
The real Stayner house looks different now it has palm trees in the neighborhood now the house looks nothing like the one you see in the movie it’s been remodeled.
Actually it looks worse whomever owns it now let it get in disrepair much like the neighborhood. working class area near the railroad tracks and a couple tenths of a mile from the cemetery oddly. So much junk, old stuff litters the lawn now...
It really angers me that, to this day, Luke Edwards and his portayal of Steven as a little boy is totally ignored. His scenes are at least 20 times as gripping as Nemec's. Maybe more. Yet he's totally brushed aside and Corin Nemec gets all the credit. That is totally rude, insensitive, inconsiderate and unfair!
I literally used to think the same thing! There’s no interviews of him at all for this movie. Unless that the fact that the kid was super young, maybe no one wanted him to get uncomfortable for that sort of publicity attention
@@courtneymadison8869 Agreed. But *_Corin Nemec_* was *Emmy-nominated* for *Best Supporting Actor in a TV Movie,* when he should have been put in *Leading Actor* and *_Luke Edwards_* in *Supporting Actor,* because *_Edwards_* is in most of *Part 1,* then *_Nemec_* takes over in the last quarter and is entirely in *Part 2.* But *_Edwards_* got no accolades, while *_Nemec_* received all of the *young artist awards* for the film, which was a *ratings smash* and *critical darling.*
One of the best TV movies of all time the true story of Steven stayner his story is so tragic and Steven stayner became a hero for saving Timmy white, I'm sure that Steven and Timmy are in heaven now,and sicky Parnell is paying the Piper for what he did in this life,I used to watch et back then when it was John tesh and leeza gibbons today I can't stand it, I have l know my first name is Steven on DVD
In The 1989 NBC TV Movie, "I Know My First Name Is Steven", Corin "Corky" Nemec, he really looked very handsome with having longer hair just like that!!!!!! He, Corin "Corky" Nemec also, alongside with Luke Edwards & Jacob Gelman, all really did a very great & a very excellent job portraying Kidnap Victims, Steven Stayner & Timmy White!!!!!! Arliss Howard, he also really did a very great & a very excellent job portraying Sex Offender-Pedophile, Kenneth Parnell!!!!!! That is too bad & that is also a shame that he, Arliss Howard did not receive an on-screen credit and/or was uncredited for his portrayal of Sex Offender-Pedophile, Kenneth Parnell!!!!!! John Ashton & Cindy Pickett, he & she both really did a very great & a very excellent job portraying Steven Stayner's Parents, Del & Kay Stayner!!!!!! I had just found out & I had even noticed that in real life, John Ashton & Cindy Pickett are both old enough to be The Late Steven Stayner's Parents!!!!!! That is really very interesting & that is also a real coincidence!!!!!! Pruitt Taylor Vince, he also really did a very great & a very excellent job portraying Irving Edward "Murph" Murphy!!!!!! In real life, I wonder who The Real Irving Edward "Murph" Murphy looks like????
I totally know what it's like to be an eight-year-old boy being molested & that going on for five more years. What I can't comprehend is all that & then a brother being a serial killer. That's because many things in life a person has to actually go through it to fully understand it. I do know, the time this vid was filmed, the mother didn't know what the other son was up to. He was a serial killer. We all know that Steven died young & we see old vids of him talking about things but I believe at the time he died, he wasn't well enough to care so much if he lived or died. It takes a long time to get to a good point after years of sexual abuse but you never get over it. Steven didn't know his brother was a serial killer yet he might have suspected something was wrong. One thing is for sure, those parents might seem sweet on cam but if reality matched that, they wouldn't have had one son getting in a car with a stranger & another ending up as a serial killer. Something was BAD WRONG in the biological home too! As to other kids, it might have seemed okay but I know a bad home when I see one from a distance. Steven's home was ROTTEN. He had rotten parents.
En los EE.UU. el 18 de abril de 1965 nació el pequeño Steven en Merced California Steven Gregory Stayner ese pequeño niño nunca imagino el terrible y horrible destino que le aguardaba El 4 de diciembre de 1972, Stayner, de 7 años, fue secuestrado en Merced ,California por pedofilo Kenneth Parnell Soy español y he redescubierto este terrible y horrible suceso que vivió el pequeño Steven cuando era joven vi la película por TV y nunca supe que ocurrió realmente si hay algo que me une a este relato es que yo nací en la misma década pero a miles de kilómetros de distancia tenía 6 años y 11 meses cuando fue secuestrado Para el pequeño Steven empezó el horror de ser violado reiteradamente por ese hijo de puta miserable monstruo Mientras yo hacía una vida feliz tranquila él estaba en el infierno mientras yo en mi país en una España gris y en blanco y negro bajo una dictadura militar pero los niños y niñas jugábamos en la calle con un balón y una cuerda y poco más con total tranquilidad no sabíamos de monstros Parnell La verdad es que nunca entenderé porque nunca conto a un profesor que su padrastro lo violaba por las noches eso hubiera puesto final a este espantoso infierno que sufrió no me puedo imaginar la angustia y el sufrimiento físico que padeció en un niño tan pequeño lo normal hubiera sido que se fugara y pidiera auxilio a la policía tampoco entiendo que le tiñera el pelo y el niño no sospechara de que Parnell quería que la gente no le reconociera ese niño era muy ingenuo no sé cómo pudo soportar las violaciones en silencio y no escapar para dejar de sufrir no creo que haya nada peor tendría que haberse dado cuenta que un padre o supuesto padrastro hace eso con su hijo Ya sé que le había lavado el cerebro diciendo que era su nuevo padre pero un padre nunca violaría a un hijo si era cierto que tenía la custodia la policía le hubiera de vuelto a su padrastro pero la ingenuidad del pequeño Steven estuvo en contra suya el cumulo de circunstancias que se dieron provoco que este niño sufriera un horror in imaginable destruyendo su infancia y juventud y su vida esta tragedia me quitado el sueño y aunque tengo 53 años cada vez que lo pienso lloro como el niño que fui El uno de marzo de 1980, Steven Stayner (14), un chico que había sido secuestrado por un pedófilo siete años atrás, decidió levantar de la cama a Timmy White, de 5 años, quien había corrido su misma suerte y ambos huyeron de la casa del depravadado Eugene Parnell aprovechando la oscuridad de la noche. Ambas víctimas, rubios y flacuchentos corrieron asustados por las calles de Ukiah, California, escapando del horror al que habían sido sometidos. Un patrullero policial los vio y los oficiales advirtieron que algo no andaba bien con ellos. Se detuvieron, cruzaron algunas palabras y los llevaron a la comisaría. En ese preciso momento, terminaba el suplicio que durante 7 años había vivido Steven y las semanas de torturas soportadas por el pequeño Timmy. El adolescente había sido intensamente buscado por sus padres, quienes, por ello mismo, habían descuidado, de alguna manera, a sus otros hijos El fin del calvario Cuando los policías entrevistaron a los niños descubrieron un escenario de horror que ni siquiera sospechaban. De hecho, cuando los detuvieron pensaban que eran dos chicos traviesos y la finalidad de su acción era devolverlos a sus padres. Sin embargo, al hablar con Steven, este narró los siete años de terror que había vivido. Steven Stayner, había sido secuestrado por Ervin Edward Murphy, el 4 de diciembre de 1972 desde la puerta de su escuela. Tenía 7 años. Pero Murphy, en realidad era solo un cazabobos utilizado por Eugene Parnell, un pederasta sádico e implacable. Murphy, era un tipo simple, amable y hasta ingenuo del que nadie desconfiaría. Por eso le fue tan fácil acercarse a Steven y comenzar a hablar con él. Con engaños relacionados a la religión, terminó conversando animadamente con el niño y le ofreció acompañarlo a su casa. De pronto se paró un automóvil Buick blanco manejado por Parnell, Murphy lo invitó a subir, el pequeño, confiado por la reciente amistad establecida, no dudó en hacerlo. Pero el destino no fue su vivienda, sino la del delincuente sexual Parnell, en una zona denominada Valle de Catheys muy cercana a donde vivían los abuelos maternos de Steven. Esa noche abuso sexual mente del niño Parnell en violó 13 días después el 17 de diciembre y nunca más dejó de hacerlo hasta la noche que huyó. La mentira El raptor cambió el nombre a Steven, desde ese momento se llamaría Dennis Gregory Parnell y lo convenció de que sus padres se lo habían entregado a él, para que lo “criara de manera religiosa”. Lo inscribió en una nueva escuela, como si fuera su hijo y nadie sospechó nada. Parnell se movía de manera constante por diferentes ciudades de California. Para ganarse la voluntad de su víctima le daba ciertas libertades, por ejemplo lo dejó beber a una edad muy temprana y le permitía salir con libertad. Steven estaba convencido de los dichos de su captor, quien había logrado meterle en su cabeza que sus “padres no lo querían”. Además no pensó en fugarse porque no tenía a donde irse. El disparador Cuando Steven tenía 14 años, Parnell ya no era el mismo con él. No lo acosaba sexualmente como antes porque ya no le interesaba, le resultaba demasiado grande. Y por ese motivo, tomó la decisión de buscar a otro niño que lo reemplazara. Fue así que con la ayuda de otro sujeto, el 14 de febrero de 1980, secuestró a Timmy White, quien tenía solo 5 años y a quien empezó a violar de inmediato. En ese momento y al escuchar los gritos desgarradores del pequeño, Steven tuvo presente su propio calvario y decidió salvarlo huyendo con él. La pena Cuando Steven contó la historia que había vivido, las autoridades detuvieron a Parnell, descubriendo que el sujeto tenía un largo prontuario como abusador de menores aunque permanecía en libertad porque jamás sus víctimas o los parientes de estas, habían suscripto denuncias concretas por temor a la vergüenza social. Para acusar a Parnell, Steven debía contar lo que él había vivido, pero lo hizo parcialmente y el hombre fue procesado por secuestro y no por pedofilia, de modo que solo recibió una condena leve que le permitió salir en libertad en menos de dos años. La justicia también violo al joven Steven ya que el pedófilo nunca pago por las cientos quizás limes de violaciones que su frio y el abandono de las instituciones que debieron de poner todos los medios tanto económicos como se sicológicos para conseguir que soltara todo el sufrimiento que tenía dentro Para no tener problemas de acoso escolar a esta familia que había sufrido sin medida debieron darles una nueva vida en otro estado y en la medida de lo posible un cambio de identidad algo que no se hizo por parte de una nación como es la de los EE.UU que es la más rica y poderosa casi del mundo no hicieron nada salvo dejar a un peligroso pedófilo suelto 5 años después esa es la justicia de esa gran nación Solo deseo que el joven Stenver este en el cielo y que dios nuestro señor y juez verdadero le haya colmado de paz y amor por toda la eternidad ya que nunca la tuve en la tierra
You shouldn't say bad things about this poor boy. Steve was never gay. Steve suffered a lot. You should be an empathetic person with the suffering of others. I hope you think about this and reflections. Do not talk about things that are not. Jesus helps you to have a better attitude. I will pray for you.
