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Steven Stayner Wife: Where is Steven Stayner Wife? – Steven Stayner was an American kidnap victim who was abducted at the age of seven from Merced. California by child molester Kenneth Parnell and his accomplice Ervin Edward Murphy.
Is Steven Stayner married?
His captor convinced him that his parents had legally handed him over to him, which probably played a significant role in the boy’s inability to take advantage of opportunities to escape despite being free to go out. As he entered puberty, Parnell, who often sexually abused him, even tried to use him as an accomplice in kidnapping other younger boys. However, all those attempts failed, as according to Stayner, he intentionally sabotaged many of those attempts. After Parnell successfully abducted a five-year-old Timothy White, Stayner determined to return him to his parents and escaped with him. While Parnell was arrested and awarded a prison sentence, Murphy, who claimed that he did not know anything about sexual abuse, was given less severe punishment.
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Steven Gregory Stayner was born on April 18, 1965, in Merced, California, to Delbert and Kay Stayer. He was the third of five children of his parents and had an elder brother Cary and three sisters.
At the age of seven, Steven Stayner was kidnapped on the afternoon of December 4, 1972, by Kenneth Parnell, who had previously been convicted for sodomizing a young boy and for armed robbery in Utah. For the abduction, he enlisted the help of naïve and simple-minded Ervin Edward Murphy by pretending to be an aspiring minister who needed a young boy to raise him in a religious-type deal. Murphy who was instructed to distribute gospel tracts to school boys, approached Steven Stayner, claiming to be a Church representative, and asked him if his mother would be willing to donate anything to the church. Young Stayner replied that his mother would donate, following which Murphy asked for his address and offered to accompany him to his house, to which he agreed.
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Soon after, Parnell reached there driving a white Buick, which Stayner got into willingly, along with Murphy, but instead of his home, he was taken to a cabin in nearby Catheys Valley. Parnell, a sex offender, molested him the first night, and began raping him thirteen days later, on December 17, 1972.
Parnell created a new identity for Stayner, giving him the new name, Denis Gregory Parnell, but retained his original middle name and his original date of birth. He was not kept in captivity, and in the following years, was enrolled in a number of schools where Parnell identified himself as his father. Parnell shifted from one place to another for work, often took Stayner with him, but later sometimes left him alone and unguarded. However, the young boy could not take advantage of those opportunities as he was reportedly unaware of how to summon help. Stayner had a relaxed upbringing as his captor not only allowed him to roam freely wherever he wished to go but also allowed him to start drinking at a very early age. During this time, he had grown very fond of his pet dog Queenie, a Manchester Terrier.
Who is Steven Stayner’s wife, Jody Edmondson?
Jody Edmondson is the ex-wife of Steven Stayner. The two were too much in love and they married later. The couples divorce later and are currently living differently in their various homes and doing and living their normal lives.
Jody Edmondson has remarried after their divorce. Not much is known about her marital life and her new husband. Steven Stayner has remained single after the divorce and hasn’t been in a relationship with anyone yet.
Where is Steve Stayner’s wife today?
She has kept a low profile and hasn’t updated anything concerning her whereabouts to the press yet.
Source: GhGossip.com
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