![]() ![]() “I thought maybe he just wanted directions,” said Mary, who was 36 at the time. (Steve Kuchera / Forum News Service)Īs they left the salon and Mary was unlocking the passenger-side door of the 1973 Ford LTD supplied to them by their church, a man who appeared to be in his early 30s with thick glasses approached them outside the busy intersection. In the foreground is a scrapbook of coverage of the case. Irv Stauffer listens as wife Mary talks about being kidnapped along with the couple’s eight-year-old daughter in 1980. In the late afternoon, it was Beth’s turn to go to Carmen’s Beauty Salon off Cleveland Avenue in Roseville. She brought her 6-year-old son, Steve, an afternoon kindergarten student, to get a haircut in the morning. That day, Friday, May 16, 1980, already had promised to be busy as Mary Stauffer hustled to handle last-minute preparations for their four-year stay abroad. In advance of that program’s airing, Mary and Irv Stauffer sat down with the News Tribune to recall their tale of terror 39 years ago. The Hermantown resident’s harrowing story of survival is scheduled to be told in the drama “Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story” on the Lifetime cable TV network (7 p.m. ![]() ![]() Mary Stauffer recalls 1980 kidnapping in Roseville, being held with her 8-year-old daughter for 53 days – Twin Cities ![]()
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