The Stayner Brothers : a Miracle Escape and a Murderous Secret
About this episode
The episode explores the harrowing story of the Stayner brothers, focusing on Steven's abduction and escape, and Cary's later crimes.
The Stayner brothers’ story is a nightmare split in two: in 1972, seven‑year‑old Steven Stayner was abducted on his way home from school in California and held captive for seven years by a pedophile who tried to remake him as his “son.” Steven finally escaped as a teenager, rescuing another kidnapped child in the process and becoming a national symbol of survival, only for the family to be dragged back into horror decades later, when Steven’s older brother Cary was unmasked as a sadistic serial killer who murdered four women near Yosemite, turning one family’s tale of victimhood and heroism into something far darker and more tragic.
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