I Know My First Name Is Steven (20 page)

This is the caretaker's stark cabin at the Mountain View Ranch where Steven lived with Parnell – without electricity or indoor plumbing – from July 1979 until March 1, 1980.

Steven stands in front of the Mountain View cabin where he lived with Parnell from July 1979 until March 1, 1980.

Some of the evidence successfully used by Mendocino County to prosecute Parnell in the kidnapping of Timmy White: Timmy's underwear and boots, the bottle of sleeping pills used to drug him, the hair coloring used to dye his hair, and the Peterbilt cap worn during the kidnapping by Sean Poorman.

Barbara Matthias's son Lloyd was sixteen when the author interviewed him outside Barbara and John Allen's remote trailer home in northern Mendocino County.

Dave Johnson was Ukiah's police chief when Timmy disappeared on Valentine's Day 1980.

Pat Hallford was the Merced County District Attorney who successfully prosecuted Parnell and Murphy for the 1972 kidnapping of Steven Stayner.

Timmy White and his mother Angela are shown here on the night they were reunited at the Ukiah Police Station.
(Courtesy of the White Family Collection.)

Steven and Timmy as they appeared at the end of their press conference, the morning of their return. This photograph appeared on the front page of major newspapers around the world. (
John Storey
/San Francisco Chronicle.)

Steven poses with his youngest sister, Cory, at the Fishermen's Grotto Restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, California, when he and the author first met, March 4, 1980, just two days after he returned home.

Timmy White beams at Steven after presenting him with a check for $15,000 as his reward for returning him to his parents.
(AP/Wide World Photos.)

The summer after his safe return home, fifteen-year-old Steven cradles his beloved Manchester Terrier, Queenie, which was given to him by Parnell. To the left behind Steven is his name, which he had scrawled on the garage wall the day before he was kidnapped.

The Stayner family in front of their house at 1655 Bette Street in Merced, the same house they lived in when Steven was kidnapped (left to right, Cory, Jody, Steven, Cindy, Cary, Kay, and Del).

On June 22, 1981, Steven bravely testified at Parnell's trial for kidnapping Timmy White.
(AP/Wide World Photos.)