Posted on 01/12/2007 2:39:17 PM PST by cgk
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Here is the real story...
2 Kirkwood police officers were in the area of the apartment when they saw a truck that matched the description of one seen leaving the area where Ownby was last seen. Geoff Hadler, a neighbor who called police to the neighborhood, had called because they had heard screaming in the area recently. He also took pictures of the truck in the parking lot.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=110821
Hadler has been on TV all night talking about why he called the police, he is the one that told police to look at the truck in the parking lot a little closer. The perp was a real JO about his parking spot at the apt complex.
Sos sickening to know that he was a registered sex offender in one state and the records were not transferred to the state where he moved......or that he did not register there.
This plan had problems that need to be fixed.
November 19, 1965 is what I found.
Oops, I was sitting on this page and now there are 2-3 more - sorry so late ... catching up.
Let me know if they do interview anyone there. What a sad and yet and unblievable "miracle" story.
Mitch Holt is the boy that saw the white truck in the area after he and Ben got off the school bus. Mitch described the truck to police very well, including the trailer hitch, camper shell and rust spots on the rear bumper area and rear bed panels.
Mitch Holt (Ben's friend) and the guy who called Kirkwood police about the truck at his apt complex are the people who broke this case.
**murder has a direct negative effect upon the 50 people closest to the victim, and radiates out to affect a couple of hundred people indirectly. Kidnapping and sexual abuse do too, and I wish our legal system would take this into account.**
I had not heard this before, but it certainly makes sense.
Abject fear, maybe?
Man, he was probably scared about to death that if he'd have laid it all out there in the clear, there'd have been no evidence around by the time the cops got there. Even if the guy WOULDN'T have killed him, and that's not a given, in my estimation, you can bet your last dollar he'd have beat the ever livin' TAR outta that boy. The perp's six-foot, and 180lbs+; Shawn woulda' been one hurtin' unit.
Fear of those kinds of retributions could put quite a damper on the impulse to just tell it all straight out.
FNC channel is following the story -- Greta did several interviews tonight. I hope you can see a replay.
Fet Devlin, Thin Devlin; this is all beginning to sound really weird.
Hallo! I'm Devlin the Great!
Hallo! I'm Devlin the Less!
We're the same age.
We've the same hobby.
We've never met.
But ain't we just the dickens, though?
What ARE the odds?
LOL
Just revisiting the details of the Steven Stayner case after hearing about this latest story. Amazing story of Stayner. This from the Crime Library (hope he gets a statue if it hasn't happened already):
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/psychology/kenneth_parnell/index.html
More than 10 years after Steven's death, the City of Merced asked locals to suggest names for city parks to honor some of Merced's notable citizens. Steven's parents suggested that one of the parks be named in Steven's honor. His mother told the Sun-Star that it would be "a positive thing for kids" because her son had survived "an extraordinary experience and came through it OK."
The City Council initially agreed that Steven would receive the honor, but the Sun-Star soon reported that some locals were concerned that people now primarily associated the name "Stayner" with Cary, and not with Steven.
Over the ensuing months, supporters and opponents of naming the park for Steven debated in City Council meetings and in letters to the editor. Compromises such "Steven's Park" were suggested and rejected. Steven's children wrote a letter to the editor of the Sun-Star stating that their father was unquestionably worthy of the honor of being the park's namesake.
Eventually, however, the park was named after another Merced resident.
But supporters who wanted to pay tribute to Steven's memory were not deterred, and there is currently an effort to create a large statue portraying Steven leading a young Timmy White to safety – to be installed in a prominent place in Merced.
Steven Stayner's legacy continues. His reappearance after seven years may give hope to families also traumatized by a missing child. Nobody knows how his community service of speaking to kids and parents may have prevented kidnappings similar to his own.
But his single act of bravery on a dark night in the early spring of 1980 will define the term "hero" for many years to come.
I wonder if he is going to end up like Steven, who I don't think ended up that well.
I was just reading about the Stayner case. Looks like Steven went on to have a wife and two kids but unfortunately died in a motorbike accident in 1989.
Oh, I know what you mean. I had remembered the case when I heard about this one so I was just reading the details of it. Pretty amazing stuff.
This from the Crime Library:
Back in Merced, when Steven hadn't returned home and darkness fell, Kay and Del became concerned about their middle child and began asking neighbors if they'd seen him. After a couple of hours of searching, they called police and contacted their friends and family to help with the search. By a tragic coincidence, Kay's father lived in a cabin a few hundred feet from Parnell's. Del went to tell his father-in-law about Steven's disappearance, not knowing that his son was easily within the sound of voice.
Well put.
There was a TV movie.."I Know My Name is Steven", good movie about the whole ordeal he went through.
I believe I saw that movie or at least parts of it--somehow I knew about the case. The story is so interesting/odd/amazing, it would make a for a good major motion picture too. I think I remember seeing a Primetime or Dateline about the murdering brother. Gee, what those parents have been through.
I've just been trying to find the movie on amazon, no luck. It may have been on Lifetime, but I think it was network tv. I recall watching the movie and when it repeated yrs. later, just can't recall what channel.
Yes, about the parents. I think the movie was made after Steven was killed and before the brother became a killer.
Actually I just read tonight that Steven had a bit part in the movie--as a policeman. They said if you blinked you would have missed it. The movie came out in 1989--same year he was killed in the motorbike accident.
I don't think I saw the movie (or parts of) when it originally aired--seems like it was in the 90's so it must have been the repeat.
that sounds familiar about him being in the movie. I just remember how sad it all was to have gotten him back after 7 yrs., only to lose him again so soon.
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