In Hulu's new true-crime documentary "Captive Audience: A Real American Horror Story," the tragic story of one American family is told in detail. Years after one of their children, Steven, was kidnapped by (and eventually escaped from) a convicted child abuser, the Stayners faced another blow when their eldest son, Cary, confessed to being the serial killer behind four brutal murders of women in 1999.
Who Is Cary Stayner?
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 the center of a nationally followed child abduction case after being kidnapped at age 7 and held captive for seven years. According to one 1999 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stayner appeared to have been deeply impacted by his brother's ordeal, both genuinely hoping for Steven's safe return and,...
Who Is Cary Stayner?
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 the center of a nationally followed child abduction case after being kidnapped at age 7 and held captive for seven years. According to one 1999 article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Stayner appeared to have been deeply impacted by his brother's ordeal, both genuinely hoping for Steven's safe return and,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Amanda Prahl
- Popsugar.com
Hulu has debuted the trailer for the upcoming docu-series ‘Captive Audience.’
This is the story of how a story gets told, and how the media’s magnifying glass impacts the characters caught in the narrative. Siblings Ashley and Steven Stayner Jr. never knew their famous father Steven, the child victim of a shocking California kidnapping, who tragically died in an accident when they were young. In 1972, seven-year-old Steven went to school – and never came home. His mother Kay struggles to keep the media interested in the case and to hold her family together. Then, after seven years, a miracle: Steven returns. The media can’t get enough of the story and frantically descend on the Stayner home – but this isn’t the Hollywood ending it appears to be.
Now fourteen years old, Steven struggles to adapt, and his family grapples with life under the media microscope. Steven’s older brother...
This is the story of how a story gets told, and how the media’s magnifying glass impacts the characters caught in the narrative. Siblings Ashley and Steven Stayner Jr. never knew their famous father Steven, the child victim of a shocking California kidnapping, who tragically died in an accident when they were young. In 1972, seven-year-old Steven went to school – and never came home. His mother Kay struggles to keep the media interested in the case and to hold her family together. Then, after seven years, a miracle: Steven returns. The media can’t get enough of the story and frantically descend on the Stayner home – but this isn’t the Hollywood ending it appears to be.
Now fourteen years old, Steven struggles to adapt, and his family grapples with life under the media microscope. Steven’s older brother...
- 4/7/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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