The Most INSANE Kidnapping Story In History

crime I don't I don't have a second camera here I'm going to I'm going to try something else one sec uh crime conspiracy Cults serial killers and murder all things that I love to consume and I know you do too you sick-minded intellectual Beautiful Freak in today's video we are going to be discussing The Disappearance of Steven stainer and this has to be one of the craziest stories I think I've ever told on this channel typically when we cover crimer related topics it ends up with a person either being found dead or missing forever however

this story has a very unique twist it involves tragedy in heroism and it details a story of one family just trying to live a normal life after blow after blow so let's get into it [Music] obviously I want to address I'm in Canada right now I do not have my usual setup but it's kind of cozy in here isn't it this is my old office but I put all my I my antiquing stuff my my my my fun finds that I found in a fireplace so we have a little a little cozy Canadian True Crime

session right now just had to say that also apologize for the audio again I don't have any of my proper filming equipment so if it sounds like ass it it sounds like ass so I apologize in advance let's get into it so who is Steven stainer Steven Gregory stainer was born to parents Delbert and K stainer on April 18th 1965 in Merced California he had three sisters and one older brother and the stainer family would live a relatively normal life until December 4th 1972 when everything would change this family would seemingly never get any reprieve

for the rest of their lives so on Monday December 4th 1972 7-year-old Steven stainer was on his way home after school when a stranger approached him the stranger claimed to be a man named Vin Edward Murphy who said that he was a church representative and asked local people if they would be willing to donate to the church Stephen said that his mother would be willing to and this led irin to ask where he lives so he could get his mother's information and when Steven told him where he lived that's when a white Buick would pull

up beside them Steven would willingly crawl into the back seat and this began the dramatic tale of Steven ston so once Steven was in the car he would be driven to a cabin in Cathy's Valley which was about half an hour Northwest of merette and unbeknownst to his family he would be held captive here within proximity to his own grandfather's home now it is important to know that Murphy was not working alone he was actually working with another person Kenneth Eugene Parnell Kenneth was a troubled man to say the least having a rough Youth and

spending many years in prison before kidnapping Steven when he was five Kenneth's father cesil Frederick par Corell walked out on his mother and his three siblings and following this event Kenneth would begin a string of crimes including car theft arson leading to spending many years in juvenile detention he's just warming up at this point just warming up in a newspaper written about Kenneth it says he has shown A peculiar tendency to search for trouble and Punishment reported Dr Richard D lenberg a psychiatrist who examined Parnell in 1951 at the beest of the Kern County Superior

Court and Kenneth would also exhibit strange Behavior throughout his life when he was 4-year-old he would try to remove his own teeth with his fingers despite them not even being loose ah I can't even imagine how hard that would be I don't even know how you do I don't even like to think about that I don't even like to think about that like move on moving on and around the age of 8 or n he shot himself in the abdomen and jumped off the roof of a barn onto a wooden plank with hundreds of nails

sticking out of it this guy likes pain okay what do you call that what do you call that I feel like I should know this I think I looked it up a uh a masochist he's a masochist at 9 years old and in 1951 when he was 20 years old Kenneth would lure an 8-year-old boy with a retired Deputy badge he just had lying around from a thrift store portraying himself as a police officer which guys just love to do that Ted Bundy did it who else did it camper maybe I don't know there's there's

a handful of them he would then severely sa the young boy and he would get sentenced to 4 years years in prison but then he would escape and then he would be brought back to serve the rest of his term so as you can see Kenneth was very much not well from the beginning so it is no surprise that he would continue to be a terrible person for the years to come Irvin had met Kenneth at a Resort at yuse National Park where they were co-workers Kenneth would be a nighttime janitor perfect job for a

psycho kidnapping [ __ ] and it is unclear what Urban's job exactly was however while working Kenneth was able to convince Irvin to help him to abduct children so he could quote raise him in a religious type deal what I I keep wanting to look to my left I keep wanting to look over there and say what but you're not what I'm just going to do that if I want a second angle from now on and when friends and family were asked to describe Irvin they said quote those who knew him saw him as a

trusting naive and simple-minded man what a great what a great description of somebody if somebody called me a trusting naive simple-minded woman I'd be offended to be honest and Kenneth clearly took advantage of Irvin giving these qualities and Kenneth was the one driving that white Buick that abducted Steven and it was also his cabin in Cathy's Valley that Steven was taken to so irin would be left on the sidewalk when Kenneth and Steven took off in the Buick on the very first night that Steven was captive he was unfortunately essayed by Kenneth and roughly 2

weeks later he would be essayed regularly by Kenneth Steven obviously wanted to go home he's just a scared little kid at this point and I hope this gu I hope these guys brought in hell for this but his captor would tell Steven that his parents had given him legal custody to be his parent and that they basically just didn't want him anymore so I can't even imagine what that would do to a little child like Psy psychologically the first night they had said they called my parents and said it was all right that I stay

tonight the second night they said that they had called them again and said they that I could stay another night then um one of them went to uh went out and came back and said that he went to court and got in possession of me and said that I was his and eventually Kenneth would change Steven's name to Dennis Gregory Parnell and he would also enroll him into numerous schools well in captivity just to remain normal looking to the rest of society and Kenneth would move around California for years and he would hold down various

jobs leaving Steven at home alone a lot he also would allow Steven to drink at a very young age and also he let Steven freely leave whenever he really wanted wanted to but he would always come back Steven stated that he could have left at any point really but he just didn't know where to get help and a random woman named Barbara maist lived with stepen and Kenneth for about a year and a half while they were in a Santa Rosa area and during that time Barbara claimed that she had no idea what was happening

and fully assumed that Kenneth and Steven were Father and Son allegedly and what is even more strange is that Steven would tell interviewers that in 1975 Kenneth would instruct Barbara to lure a young boy into their car just outside Santa Rosa boy club but the kidnapping attempt would be unsuccessful w w sounds like it's not a legend anymore Barbara but yeah I find it really hard to believe that Barbara was completely clueless of what was going on between Kenneth and Steven despite Steven calling Kenneth dad it should have been obvious by his body language that

Steven was not comfortable with Kenneth ever and that the two were not related cuz they didn't look alike either plus who the would be willing to go along with a kidnapping of a child just so nonchalantly especially if the person was instructed to do so it's in my opinion that she knew what she was doing and she knew what the was going on I've been told that you called him Dad how long before you started calling him Dad do you have any idea when that started um that started about a week after my adduction what

were your thoughts during the seven years about your parents did you think about them and if so what what went through your mind um through the seven years I don't remember what went through my but I thought of my parents very often but Sten would have to suffer for years in captivity traveling around with Kenneth while being violated by him regularly it had to be just absolutely torturous and miserable however in early 1980 Steven would see and take an opportunity March 1st 198 14-year-old Steven would finally Escape of the grasp of his captor and get

the help he so desperately needed but he wasn't alone as sickening and disgusting as it sounds Kenneth grew less interested and Steven as time went on almost as if he doesn't like boys after they hit puberty cuz you know he's a pet Parnell and Steven together realized that Steven was growing up and that he was no longer going to be able to be controlled by Parnell Parnell wanted another kid so once Steven hit puberty Kenneth started to go out and look for younger boys to kidnap and basically replace him furthermore as Steven got older Kenneth

would start to use Steven to abduct younger boys which reminds me of a movie I really like cuz it was really well done with Angelina Julie the changeling which I'm wondering now is that no it was based off a different case never mind but the changeling very interesting movie similar premise um he used boys this guy used boys to abduct other boys and then he would like I'm not going to give it away you should watch it anyway let's continue so at this point he's using Steven to do what Irvin did to Steven do that

make sense I think that Mak sense but any way each time it was unsuccessful because Steven would basically purposefully sabotage the attempt every single time props to Steven and this led Kenneth to start resenting Steven however in February 1980 Steven and a friend Randall porman would kidnap a 5-year-old boy named Timothy White in the city of Yukaya California so on the night of March 1st Kenneth would leave for his job as night security as he usually did and this basically meant that Steven and Timmy were now alone however as mentioned previously this wasn't abnormal at

all it happened all all the time but Steven would grab Timmy and they would hitchhike into nearby Yukaya where he would try to find Timmy's house so after searching for a while he couldn't so ended up going to a police station and when questioned stepen would say quote unquote I know my first name is Steven and this line would become infamous after he was brought home and the media coverage began to look into the case I know my first name is Stephen and that became title of a book it became a television movie and it

made Steven famous seven long years ago youngster in California vanished everyone thought he was dead at this point he rescued another boy this is Steven today he is holding 5-year-old Timothy White who could make this up every television network every magazine cover every uh movie executive there wasn't anyone not interest so on March 2nd Pernell would be arrested from his job and be charged with abduction and luckily both children would be reunited with their families and Pernell would thank God be convicted of two counts of kidnapping so he was sentenced to 7 years and parole

after five what it's just not enough time it's just not enough not even CL he kidnapped a child and did awful things to him for years I don't understand the justice system I guess I don't know because Parnell would not be charged for saay that occurred in merid County since he was apprehended in mesino county and he was outside of the statue of limitations so I I guess that makes sense but still kidnapping is only 7 years especially for the length of time that he had Steven like are you kidding me Urban Murphy and Randall

porman would be convicted of lesser charges for aiding in kidnapping of both children and Steph would recall that Murphy was extremely kind to him when he was first held captive and told investigators that he believed that Murphy was as much a victim as he was which like it's hard cuz I I understand to a certain degree like maybe the same thing happened to Irvin I'm not I'm not even sure we're not sure like that it happened to Steven he was groomed and then made to kidnap people so and it's just that Stockholm syndrome like when

you're a child they're so easily moldable you know and easy to take advantage of unfortunately I don't know I don't know how to feel about like Irvin Murphy and stuff I do think that he was a victim absolutely but yeah I mean you got to know what's right and wrong you know you see other kids not doing that You' think it's like not good to do but then I understand also that you're horribly afraid of Kenneth so anyway but the case of Steven stainer is a very traumatic yet Brave Tale of a boy who persevered

through horrible conditions while saving another from the same fate the car pulled up and I got in and they they passed the road that I was that I lived on I had told them that that was the road I lived on they said that we'll just uh call your parents see if you can stay the night were you afraid uh not that much I was a little bit the case would absolutely blow up on the news and attract lots and lots of media attention leading to Steven and Timmy gaining some Fame so as soon as

Steven was returned to his family he actually began touring around the nation to different morning shows and numerous interviews in front of his family home which I can't even imagine that like after going through that as a kid still like he's 14 and then having to do all that like what a nightmare so over the past seven years Steven had been living in the shadows just yearning to escape but now that he's free and was thrust into the spotlight it kind of became unavoid and on Good Morning America Steven was asked if his parents had

changed at all if he recognized his siblings and things like that all well his lawyer was present and while it was great to have Steven back home he really really struggled to get back into normal life he was used to being an only child first of all so having to share a room with his brother Carrie and share things with his other siblings was just relatively A New Concept for him people believed that his siblings were happy to see him however it was believed that Carrie his older brother wasn't too keen on sharing a room

with him but if you look in the background there there's something worth noting and it's Carrie in his baseball cap and he's not smiling at all and when Steven returned to school he was absolutely ostracized by his peers not only because cameras constantly surrounded him but the public knew that he had been taken advantage of by an old freak so his peers would would question his sexuality and even infer that he enjoyed it like kids are so cruel and I know it was like like a different time I mean kids still do that even now

but oh my God like I can't even imagine the light that like that life is insane like so much sympathy goes goes out to him and his family and everything like I can't even imagine this would obviously cause Steven to drop out of high school and start drinking leading to a very strained relationship with his father who would inevitably kick him out of his home and in an interview with Newsweek Steven told reporters that his father would refuse to hug him once he was home and that the cameras were away which is so sad you

would think that after losing your child for 7 years you'd show a little bit of compass passion but his father's almost as much as a heartless monster as parnel in my opinion Steven would say in an interview I returned almost a grown man and yet my parents saw me at first as their seven-year-old after they stopped trying to teach me the fundamentals all over again it got better but why doesn't my dad hug me anymore I guess seven years changed him too so sad so Steven would continue dealing with reporters and cameras for years and

years after the trials but in 1985 he would get married to a 17-year-old named Jody Edmonson and he would have two children Steven Jr and Ashley his family would live in mered California the place where he was abducted and he would work at a pizza shop and on the side Steven would work with a child abduction group basically to Aid in the search for missing children and prevent more from disappearing so basically he's a saint however on September 16th 1989 on his way home from work Steven's motorcycle would collide with Antonio L's car and it

would kill him almost instantly so once again the stainer family would lose their child in another tragic event except this time it was not only his parents who lost a son it was siblings who lost a brother a wife who lost a husband and two children who lost a father and shortly before he died in 1989 a two-part miniseries would be released with the title no my name is Steven and the plot would detail Steven's entire story including him getting abducted to him arriving at the police station with Timmy white and so on and following

his death a book would be written by author Mike Eckles of the exact same name so all this media would basically immortalize Steven and his story however the city of Merced wanted to honor him even further so in 2010 the city would reveal a large bronze statue with Steven standing holding Timmy White's hand leading him away from the cabin Steven's story was heroic and tragic at the same time and the statue will forever remind passerbys of his struggles and his yearning for a normal life but most of the attention that Steven was receiving was leaving

these siblings feeling neglected by their parents I mean he had been missing for 7 years so so it's not unimaginable that the parents would put all this attention on him when he came back after being abducted while his other siblings would be able to deal with it Carrie on the other hand would not and he would grow incredibly spiteful and then gain some of his own media attention in the years to come and this is where the crazy Twist of events comes in while Steven's story was abruptly ended by tragedy Carrie the Lesser known stainer

brother was about to write his own one far darker than anyone else could have ever imagined he would become the yuse killer yeah what the on a sightseeing trip to euse Carol's son her daughter Julie and their friend svina peloso vanished in February of 1999 Weeks Later Carol and sven's bodies were found in their charred rental car down a cliff we have recovered two bodies from the trunk of the vehicle but where was Julie the killer sent the FBI this handdrawn map with a chilling message we had fun with this one so when Steven disappeared

at 7 years old his older brother Carrie who was 11 at the time was completely distraught he was the big brother and lightly felt guilty that he couldn't protect his younger brother and Steven's kidnapping would haunt Carrie for years and years to come and when the book I know my first name is Steven came out Eckles would quote Steven saying I remember going out one night after Steve disappeared and Wishing on a Star that my brother would come back home I did that almost every clear night from then on until Steven finally came back home

I never did tell anyone about it but I remember Wishing on a Star that my little brother would come back home sounds sweet right well he's a murderer so less sweet and this became such a ritual for Carrie that he continued doing that even after Steven came home even though Steven had came home he would still go out every single night he would walk several blocks away he would pick a star and begin to repeat the wish that Steven would return home before he would remember that Steven was home and he was safe so he

would then thank the star instead again sounds really sweet until you find out he's a murderer the sad fact about car's childhood after Steven was rediscovered was basically that he was overshadowed by Steven and had essentially been left behind he was only 11 at the time so he really still needed guidance but everything became about Steven they would withdraw emotionally from Carrie and they would just put their sole focus into finding Steven and then when Steven was found they would put their soul focused into all the media attention that was happening into how he was

doing and everything and Delbert the father would swing between two versions of himself one that was consumed with slur slide and depression and one that would solely focus on finding Steven so like I I can't imagine being a sibling at that time just and watching your parents just basically implode from the inside out and not parenting you because they're so focused on that like I obviously have sympathy there as well but less because he inevitably became a killer anyway so the children that they did have were neglected in favor of the child that they lost

and Carrie would have unique gifts and talent that his parents wouldn't see because the spotlight was on the missing Steven while he attended mered high school he would actually be nominated as the most creative student with many believing that he would actually become a graphic artist and cartoonist when he got older and he also played baseball where he was positioned in the Outfield which I was too not that I want to have any qualities you know similar to a killer or anything but I just I just thought that'd be interesting little little fact about me

left field was my position so anyway but Carri was a very quiet and reserved individual ual potentially feeling like his feelings or opinions weren't valued from his family because they were more focused on the child that they lost but he was also described as one of the nicest people you could meet and was rarely bothered by anything like he didn't really have any anger issues or anything like that so Carrie would be 18 by the time his brother came home basically a man standing on his own merits and probably fully accepting that he would never

see his brother again but his brother would come into the picture again thus thrusting Carrie back into the Shadows but of course Carrie was glad that Steven was was home of course even thanking the stars that he had wished countless times for his brother to come back but Steven was home and with that came the media Firestorm yet again Steven would just come home he would come home a a a hero basically and neighbors who lived near the stainers for about 20 years Rec called Steven's return home basically made Carrie just return to being the

brother Michael Coleman specifically would LIF next to the stainers for about 20 years and would tell SFGate quote unquote when Steven came home Carrie was put back on the Shelf he was in the background always and Victoria Flores Tatum another longtime neighbor told SFGate Harry was very frustrated at all the publicity Steven was getting I think Carrie wants as much attention as Steven got and he would and he would Victoria Victoria prophesies that a little bit I think sound like Rick Grimes when I said that I think I think of the Dead all the time

corl get back I'm rewatching The Walking Dead and Carries alienation and internal turmoil were compounded by his brother's untimely death in 1989 just as Steven seemed to be finding a sense of normaly in life Steven again would die in a motorcycle accident and through the death was tragic but it only furthered to solidify Steven's like hero Fame even after he was dead and this would leave Carrie to just grapple with his own feelings of inadequacy and emotional distance from his family so the alienation and loss at his home could have been what made Carrie want

to move in with his Uncle Jesse stainer so in 1990 while Carrie and Jesse were living together Jesse would be found in his home dead from one gunshot the murder was investigated but the killer was never found I think I might know who it was and when the murder of car's Uncle Jesse was reported in the newspaper it would be Steven stainer name that was used in the headlines not car's car's name would not be mentioned at all in the article it would say Steven stainer Uncle murdered you're really poking the be media and Carrie

who had found work in multiple trades jobs such as moving worked for a long time as a glass cutter where he'd fix broken windows and installed new ones and at one such job he'd be working with a longtime friend Mike mares mares probably mares sorry who found him punching plywood until he bled and just kept going Carrie had told Mike that he's basically having a nervous breakdown and that he wanted to drive into work and kill everyone there and then torch the place just a big red flag right there if if you ask me following

this incident uh Carrie would become a handyman at Cedar Lodge in El Portal on Highway 140 heading towards Yus National Park we're getting there we're getting to the yeah we're getting there and City Lodge is positioned in an absolutely beautiful area surrounded by mountains and it's isolated due to the National Park's proximity how convenient and this was basically a peaceful place for everyone and Carrie could enjoy the beautiful mountains and would often smoke a little pot well sunbathing naked I don't know why we know that information but we do and the Tranquility would persist until

1999 when Carol sunned her daughter Julie and Julie's friend sylvina peloso went missing along with Carol's 1999 Pontiac Grand Prix and the search for these women would be the largest ever mounted in yede at any time according to at the time FBI agent Jeff rck handling the case and after several weeks all three women's bodies would unfortunately be discovered girl's car would be discovered 60 M away from the lodge having been set on fire with two bodies in the trunk and Julie would be discovered about 40 Mi away from the burned out car after investigators

received a letter in the mail containing a roughly drawn out map area investigators get a break a letter in the mail with a crude map showing an area about 40 m from where the burned car was found earlier this afternoon investigators discovered the body of a homicide victim body of 15-year-old Julie sun was identified earlier in the week and a group of ex-cons would come into the sites of investigators Michael Roy larwick and his half brother Eugene Earl Dykes were the top suspects at the time Dykes had multiple convictions on gun drug and seual charges

and larwick whose childhood home was near the abandoned torched car allegedly shot at the police officer trying to pull him over days after the vehicle was discovered so they would obviously be taken into custody and questioned about these three women's murders larwick denied killing anyone saying that they had the wrong guy basically but it's understandable why federal agents would think that they had the and responsible given all the connections basically considering that lck's criminal history included assault and other essay and attempted manslaughter and even an arrest where he would be found with a rocket launcher

but larwick would even offer to submit a polygraph test and he would also offer his DNA to clear his name he'd be quoted on saying I ain't got nothing to do with this I've done a lot of things I'm No Angel but you've got the wrong guy he's a piece of [ __ ] I I have no sympathy for him but that's I mean you know he didn't do it clearly and investigators would now naturally have the wrong guy which would become apparent when Joey Armstrong disappeared in July of 1999 5 months after the first

three killings 26-year-old Joey Armstrong a naturalist working at yuse living on the west side of the park and at her cabin police would find signs of struggle and her decapitated body would be found half a mile away with her head just floating in the water nearby an investigators would find lots of evidence at Joey's crime scene and Carrie stener's car was very dis stin we'll show a picture of it here very non Incognito you know and it had been seen at the area during the times of the murder so he was initially brought in as

a witness to see if he had seen anything suspicious and he had been found at a nudist col after another person recognized him as a person of interest to investigators and called the authorities but at this point Carrie still wasn't suspected of committing the crimes and the investigators were actually familiar with him after having questioned him after the first three murders they just basically wanted to ask him questions at this point so when FBI agent Jeff Riddick finds him at a nudus colony they find it odd that he raises his hands above his head like

way to give it away dude what the carry was not treated like a suspect at all like when he was being questions he and two other agents were eating pizza and that's when he began to spill his guts and tell the investigators that he could give them more information about Joey Armstrong and more Carrie would confess to Jeff renick well alone that he killed Joey Armstrong as well as Carol Julie and sylina and Jeff renick has actually written a book about it titled in the name of the children and FBI agents Relentless pursuit of the

nation's worst predators and in this book he details the time he spent with Carrie stainer and the horrifying request he made during his confession that connection ultimately got stainer to confess to killing Joey Armstrong but before admitting to killing the sightseers RX says stainer tried to negotiate he wanted images of young girls his family to get the reward money and to end up in a federal prison near his family rinck recalls asking him to pick one what's the one thing it's the one thing only and what he chose to so for car's confession he established

conditions for his continued cooperation he wanted his family to get the reward money for discovery of the women that he killed he also wanted to be placed in a prison close to his family and finally he wanted images and in videos of the young girls and he actually thought that they would give these things to him if he dangled the confession in front of the investigators faces this guy couldn't be a bigger POS I I can't even like the audacity the audacity of this piece of [ __ ] monster my God but investigators would tell

him that he could pick one of the things that he wanted so much and he would choose the images of the little girls over the money for his family and the proximity to his family it's a nightmare what and of course he would confess after not receiving the photos as Jeff renick would tell him of the catharsis that he would feel if he did confess and there might have been also which I think is a big a big possibility that he just wanted to seize any sort of Spotlight or fame from these crimes given that

the spotlight was taken away from him so many times from his brother so many decades ago and Carrie would claim that these inclinations of death and murder would predate Steven's kidnapping when he was as young as six and even 7 years old he would be 37 at the time of apprehension so he had avoided succumbing to these desires for about three decades and may continue to fight these demons today as he sits on death row which I'm sure he does so why might have Carrie finally given in after so long perhaps it was inevitable but

a psychiatrist that evaluated Carrie for his defense team the stainer family experienced extensive and mental illness Steven had been kidnapped by a PDF is but he wasn't the only one that suffered these abuses Steven and Carrie's father Delbert had been ordered into therapy after essaying his own daughters and even Carrie himself would begin peeping in on his sister and even touching her inappropriately when she was only 10 years old and Carrie had even become a victim of sa from his own Uncle Jesse stainer mere months after Steven's disappearance and if you remember Jesse was killed

by a gunshot so after Carrie stainer was convicted for those other murders Jesse stainer case would be reopened so history of sa in the stainer family seemingly went back Generations which is horrific making the fact that Steven would be kidnapped by somebody that committed the same a cruel cruel twist of fate in a very unfortunate irony Carri seemed so normal throughout his childhood and throughout his adulthood and even his friends didn't suspect him of doing anything like this it just goes to show that you never know when somebody's hiding a very dark side to them

and that deep-seated trauma can manifest when you least expect it so the story of the stainer Brothers is intriguing for many reasons their childhoods and how they ended up in adulthood offer a compelling example of the nature versus nurture concept which I always talk about during most of the True Crime deep Dives that I do both brothers endured trauma yet their paths LED entirely different directions Steven would become a symbol of resilience and strength Well Carrie became a serial killer and a cautionary tale Steven's was a seven-year-long nightmare where his could be nightly at the

hands of his captor and when he emerged from captivity he was a hero for his Rescue of a young boy and he was able to function well enough to find a wife and even start a family and carry faced trauma that had similarities yet some differences to Stevens he was allegedly by his Uncle someone he should have felt safe and protected by and grappling with this just compounded the emotional vacuum left by his brother and his parents neglect it left him isolated in his own way just as Steven was but unlike Steven Carrie never really

received any sort of public attention or support that may have helped him process these feelings of neglect and rage perhaps car's life could have had a different outcome if he was treated like an equal and was supported by his siblings and his parents that said if his statements of his very dark inclinations predated the Abduction of Steven and his are factual then perhaps it was inevitable and one could speculate that Steven was somehow motivated by the spotlight that he had gained that to to to make an effort more towards having a normal life basically versus

Carrie the one in the shadows didn't have the same fire lit beneath him to to pursue that kind of normal life so I think the greatest shame and honestly one of the cruelest ironies of this whole story is that Steven a boy who saved another young boy from the that he suffered for so many years was the one who had his life cut short with so much in his future carry the brother who would go on to murder Four Women lives to this day and though it may be on death row he got to breathe

the pleasures that life offered for 37 years and though now in prison continues to create his art so that about wraps up this story very very crazy case I was reading about it I can't even remember I think I was in the bell's Reddit or something and I just I couldn't believe it so I hope you got something out of the video today you know another cautionary tale if you will you know be careful out there obviously my heart goes out to the family and friends of the victims obviously I also want you guys to

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