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Kenneth Eugene Parnell

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The Resume

    (September 26, 1931-January 21, 2008)
    Born in Amarillo, Texas
    Convicted sex offender
    Kidnapped seven-year old Steven Stayner (1972)
    Abducted five-year-old Timmy White (February 14, 1980)
    Stayner escaped with White (March 1, 1980)
    Stayner case dramatized in the TV movie 'I Know My First Name Is Steven'

Why he might be annoying:

    He was arrested for impersonating a police officer and sodomizing a young boy (1951).
    He duped a mentally challenged co-worker into being his accomplice in kidnapping Stayner.
    Stayner testified that Parnell sexually abused him 'about once every two weeks' throughout his captivity.
    He introduced a pre-teen Stayner to alcohol and drugs.
    He tried (unsuccessfully) to get Stayner to join him in kidnapping other children.
    He held Steven Stayner captive for seven years, but served only five years for the crime (1981-85).
    He was arrested for trying to coerce his caretaker into buying him a four-year-old boy (2003).
    He claimed he just 'wanted a family,' but the caretaker testified that he requested that the child have a 'clean rectum.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was molested by a border in his mother's rooming house when he was thirteen.
    When Steven Stayner died in a motorcycle accident (1989), he said he cried for the first time since he was nine.
    He was sentenced to life in prison under the 'three strikes' law (2004).
    He said he did not care if people did not like him, adding, 'I guess they have their reasons.'
    He had a flair for understatement.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 118 Votes: 58.47% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 101 Votes: 42.57% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 64 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 69 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 32 Votes: 53.12% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 39 Votes: 56.41% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 33 Votes: 72.73% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 121 Votes: 66.12% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 194 Votes: 62.37% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 115 Votes: 70.43% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 319 Votes: 66.46% Annoying