The new three-part Hulu docuseries Captive Audience explores the tragic story of the Stayner family — specifically the fraught lives of their two sons, Steven Stayner and Cary Stayner. In December ...

Cary Stayner is the oldest of five children in the Stayner family and was born in Merced, CA, in 1961. His family came to national attention in the early 1970s when his younger brother, Steven, became ...

A new docuseries will be diving into a tale of two brothers, one of whom was a child kidnapping victim-turned-national hero and the other a serial killer. “This is the story of how a story gets told, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early ‘80s, the story of Steven Stayner’s childhood abduction and rescue riveted the nation. One December afternoon in 1972 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Stayner is reunited with his parents Kay and Delbert Stayner on 2 March 1980 after escaping from a seven-year captivity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Captive Audience is a three-part documentary about the Stayner case, which captivated the country when the 7-year-old was kidnapped from his hometown in California in December, 1972, and then ...

Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn child, was among the inmates at California’s prisons and jails who filed hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment ...

When 14-year-old Steven Stayner turned up at a police station, more than seven years after he was kidnapped while walking home from school, it felt like a miracle. "This is really so phenomenal, for a ...

Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including sexual assault on minors that some readers may find upsetting. Disney+'s new crime drama Captive Audience really has to be seen to ...