SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — Timothy White, the youngest victim in a notorious California kidnapping case, died on April 1. He was 35.

The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said his stepfather, Roger Gitlin.

Mr. White was 5 years old when he was kidnapped in 1980 by Kenneth Parnell, a convicted child molester. Steven Stayner, then 14, had been kidnapped by Mr. Parnell seven years earlier and was still being held captive. Two weeks after Mr. Parnell took Timothy, the two boys fled from where they were being held and hitchhiked to safety.

Image Timothy White is embraced by his mother, Angela White, shortly after the boy escaped his kidnapper in 1980. Mr. White died on April 1. Credit... United Press International

Their story was told in the 1989 television movie “I Know My First Name Is Steven.”

Mr. White was buried Thursday in Newhall, in Los Angeles County, where he had worked as a sheriff’s deputy since 2005.