A new documentary series streaming on Hulu this month will focus on the divergent lives of Merced brothers Steven and Cary Stayner. While the former even today remains hailed as a fallen hero, the ...

America met Steven Stayner twice. The first time, he was a seven-year-old child on a missing person poster, having disappeared without a trace on his way home from school. The second time, he was 14, ...

Too smart for “true crime” and far more artfully constructed than standard-issue nonfiction, “Captive Audience” revisits the case of Steven Stayner, who in 1972 disappeared without a trace and then ...

Life isn’t a story, and if it was, then the ordeal of the Stayner family would be too far-fetched for fiction. Over the course of five decades, the Stayners endured the kidnapping of their 7-year-old ...

In the early ‘80s, the story of Steven Stayner’s childhood abduction and rescue riveted the nation. One December afternoon in 1972, 7-year-old Steven had been walking home in Merced, California, when ...

Captive Audience premieres April 21, 2022, on Hulu. A True Crime documentary about True Crime, the three-episode Hulu series Captive Audience follows a real kidnapping case from the 1970s, which it ...

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- A plaque in honor of Steven Stayner and Timothy White has been stolen in Merced. The two-by-three-foot memorial was installed at Applegate Park back in 2010, along with a ...