A convicted child molester whose kidnapping of a boy was turned into a television movie was arrested Friday night after allegedly trying to buy a child, police said. Lt. Dennis Ahearn, a spokesman for ...

Kenneth Parnell, the child molester who became infamous after kidnapping and sexually torturing Steven Stayner in the 1970s, was arrested in Berkeley on Friday night in a police sting operation after ...

A convicted child molester whose kidnapping of a boy was turned into a television movie was arrested Friday night after allegedly trying to buy a child, police said. Lt. Dennis Ahearn, a spokesman for ...

Convicted child predator Kenneth Parnell pleaded not guilty in an Oakland courtroom Wednesday to charges he attempted to purchase of a 4-year- old boy for $500 in Berkeley. Parnell, 71, who was ...

One of California’s most notorious child molesters was convicted Monday in Oakland of trying to buy a young boy for $500. Because of two previous convictions, Kenneth Parnell, 72, could face life ...

KENNETH PARNELL PEFFER Jan. 2, 1939 – Mar. 26, 2007 Resident of Modesto Passed away at the age of 68. He served in the Navy from 1956-1959. From 1960-1963 he became a volunteer firefighter for the ...

“Captive Audience,” a much-anticipated true crime docuseries about the Stayner brothers, debuted Thursday night on Hulu. One of the brothers, Steven Stayner, was kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell off 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, ...

Thirty years after the kidnapping of Steven Stayner, a case that shocked the nation and was made into a television movie, the man who snatched the 7-year-old as he walked home from school has been ...