Kidnapper arrested, accused of trying to buy a child

Sunday, January 5, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO -- 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 arrested for allegedly trying to buy a 4-year-old child.

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