Captive Audience

Miniserie de TV
2022
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46min

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6.8/10

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In 1972, 7-year-old Steven Stayner mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked '80s-era "stranger danger" warnings, legal reforms.

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Sigue la vida de Steven Stayner y su familia, sumergiéndose en el viaje de 50 años de la familia para desentrañar la historia de dos hermanos, uno considerado un villano y el otro un héroe.Sigue la vida de Steven Stayner y su familia, sumergiéndose en el viaje de 50 años de la familia para desentrañar la historia de dos hermanos, uno considerado un villano y el otro un héroe.Sigue la vida de Steven Stayner y su familia, sumergiéndose en el viaje de 50 años de la familia para desentrañar la historia de dos hermanos, uno considerado un villano y el otro un héroe.

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Kay Stayner

Self - Steven's Mother…

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Ashley Stayner

Self - Steven's Daughter…

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Corin Nemec

Self - Actor

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Cory Stayner

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Jody Stayner

Self - Steven's Wife

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Ted Rowlands

Self - Journalist

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8camerong-73357

See this as a psychological study and not true crime

I think many of the low reviews for this are coming from people who expected something different than what this is trying to do. I think this series is trying to piece together how Steven Stayner's kidnapping and return along with the media attention had a psychological effect on Cary Stayner and possibly led him to become a murderer.

I think the psychological aspects of this incident and how the family was impacted are where the director wants the viewer's attention. We see this in how Kay Stayner describes her husband's opposition to therapy for Steven. The 1989 made for TV movie mentioned in this also alludes to the extra attention given Steven and seemingly taken form Cary. I also think that having the actors from that movie reading the scripted lines was an artistic move. Many are saying it is pretentious but the actual people aren't available to speak for themselves.

7thejdrage

Interesting ........... especially connecting the 2 brothers

I remember both news stories, but did not put them together - because ... I just didn't.

All families have tragedies, but this family has incredible ones.

There are lots of complaints about how it was done and what what was left out. There's always someone complaining!!

I thought it was overwhelming enough as it is!

It's heavy and unreal. To think that a family could endure what it has is incredible. I am exhausted.

3mikelc2020

Pretentious Filmmaker Ruins Important Story of Hero/Survivor Steven Stayner

Such an important story of a young boy who was abducted and brutally victimized for 7 years then becomes a hero saving another child and yet the pretentious director, who directed an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, spent way too much time having actors from a 1989 TV movie based on the events read from actual interviews of family members. This totally took away from the story and was obviously added as filler to make Captive Audience into a miniseries. Here's what the miniseries completely overlooks by a long shot and fails to present: Steven Stayner was a victim turned hero and should be remembered and always honored for that.

9destiny_west

Heart breaking

Captive Audience is the story of Steven Stayner who was abducted at a young age only to return to his family years later. This story was made into a two part series titled "I know my first name is Steven' though it was loosely added to.

This documentary goes over the tragedies that continue to fall the Stayner family even upon Steven's return, that included his older brother turning out to be a serial killer.

This documentary is heart breaking and captivating.

To learn what this kid went through and his own heroic act to save another child, is mind blowing.

To see how the media dogged him and his family upon his return and into the future is heart breaking.

This documentary is well worth a watch.

9ChristyGuinn

So much tragedy.

Sadly, if it can happen, it does happen...but so much to one family is heartbreaking. I certainly don't pretend to know the whole truth. I was very young when the initial crime happened. Remember watching "I Know my First Name is Steven" when I was older. By the time the second crime happened I was into my 20's and don't recall it at all! What I hope is that this documentary told what the family wanted told and in the right way. I know they can get in an editing room and really twist some stuff. The tragedies are immense, from abduction, to rape, to murder and MANY in between, right down to the ABSOLUTELY pathetic sentencing of a child rapist.

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The director later stated in an interview that despite allowing the mitigation specialist for Cary Stayner's defense statement that he found a history of abuse, mental illness, and alcoholism in the Stayner family to remain in, she chose not to address it or ask the interviewed family members about it. In reality, the series leaves out a large amount of information, including the fact that child molestation was rife in the family and the father, Delbert Stayner, was one of the perpetrators, along with an uncle, Jesse Jerrold "Jerry" Stayner, and the maternal grandfather, Robert Augustine. The uncle was murdered in 1990; the case is still unsolved. The grandfather lived near Kenneth Parnell when Steven was kidnapped in 1972.

The private investigator who was interviewed is aware, as are many other people, that despite the narrative that has been fed to the public, Cary Stayner is only guilty of one murder and was railroaded and took the fall for the actual killers (the men who were initially arrested for the crime) in the three murders for which he was sentenced to death. There was a large amount of incompetence and corruption in local law enforcement, and the trial was rigged. Kay Stayner stated in an interview after the trial that she doesn't believe Cary committed those murders either, and pointed out that without his confession, which was full of major discrepancies, the state had no case, but has never fought for her son's innocence, perhaps because she fears the family secrets coming to light again.