Word: stayner
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Convincing children that their parents don't love them is a brutally effective way to secure children's allegiance. Steven Stayner was kidnapped in Merced, Calif., in 1972, at age 7. For seven years, he lived with his abductor as a son, going to a public high school, often left alone but never escaping. According to Sharon Carr Griffin, a friend of Stayner's who is writing a book about his life, Stayner's kidnapper told him that his dad had died and his mother had signed custody of Stayner over to the kidnapper. "If you can convince a child...
...When Stayner escaped 26 years ago, there was little idea that such ambivalent feelings could exist in a child. He was immediately returned to his childhood home, but by many accounts struggled to fit back in. Nine years later, he died in a motor- cycle crash...
...CONVICTED. CARY STAYNER, 41, of the 1999 slayings of three female tourists at Yosemite National Park; in San Jose, California. The former motel handyman, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, is currently serving a life sentence for murdering a Yosemite guide...