They had very few memories of their father and learned about his life the way most people did: through the media. White went on to have two children with his wife, Dena. [2] In 2002, Cary was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of four women. Stayner went on to marry his wife, Jodi Stayner, and have two children. Kenneth Parnell - Wikipedia The kidnapping had a deep impact on Cary Stayner, his childhood friend, Mike Marchese told ABC News in a 1999 interview. But he always seemed to get through it no matter what. According to SFGate, his friends and coworkers described him as being impulsive and prone to seemingly abrupt and violent fits of rage. The couple dated for a year before marrying in June 1985. Their case inspired the much-watched 1989 TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven. Stayner died in a motorcycle crash the same year the movie was released. Steven Stayner's grave./Steven Stayner. Stayner's account of his time with Parnell formed the basis of a 1991 book by Mike Echols. Stayner told another psychiatrist, Park Dietz, who was hired by the prosecution to evaluate whether he was sane at the time he committed the Yosemite murders, that as a child he worried that the obsessive thoughts he had about holding the neighbor girl against her will somehow caused Steven to be kidnapped. Following his rescue, White went on to bravely testify at his kidnappers trial when he was just 6 years old, the New York Times reported in 2010. He later moved with his mother, his two half-sisters, and a half-brother to Bakersfield, California, where his mother operated a boarding lodge. His older brother Cary was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of four women in 2002. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. An archive article published September 18, 1989, two days after Stayners death, in The Spokesman-Review, said a driver hit Stayner on a highway and left him on the ground with severe head injuries. On several occasions, Parnell encouraged Stayner to help him lure another boy into the home.