Timothy James White (November 1, 1974 – April 1, 2010) was an American man who was abducted in 1980 by pedophile Kenneth Parnell and held for several weeks before he was rescued by fellow child captive 14-year-old Steven Stayner, who escaped and guided the 5-year-old to safety.
When White refused and attempted to run indoors, Poorman shoved the boy against a chain link fence, forced him to loosen his grip, then dragged him kicking and screaming into the car.
[1] Parnell also dyed White's blond hair dark brown in order to mask his appearance from the forthcoming missing child posters.
White forged a bond with Stayner during the 16 days he was held captive and spoke favorably of how the older boy took care of him.
[2] Stayner, determined to not see another child suffer the systematic sexual abuse that he endured, sought to return White to his parents.
Parnell lived in remote backcountry; they walked a quarter of a mile down a road until a passing truck driver took them to Ukiah.
Since White couldn't recall where his parents lived, Stayner went to a phone booth and found the address of the Ukiah police station.