On January 16, 1938, Timothy Oliver Stoen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, followed by two brothers. In 1956 he graduated from Littleton High School in Colorado. In 1960 he graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois. In 1961 while on a Rotary Foundation Fellowship, he took photos of border guards in East Berlin, and got arrested. In 1964, he graduated from Stanford Law School. In 1965, Tim became a deputy DA for Mendocino County in Ukiah, California. On August 8, 1967, at a hiring interview for a new poverty law program, he met Jim Jones. On April 1, 1969, Tim took a poverty law job in a black section of Oakland, California. He defended, in a criminal case, a member of the Black Panther party. On January 1, 1970, Tim joined Peoples Temple. On March 2, 1970, he became the "county counsel" for Mendocino County, and also became the "pro bono" attorney for Jim Jones. On June 27, 1970, Tim married 20-year-old Grace Lucy Grech. On May 17, 1976, he became "special voter fraud prosecutor" for the San Francisco DA's office, and thereafter Head of Special Prosecutions. During 1976 and 1977, Tim defended Jones as he was becoming a "power broker" in San Francisco, winning over Mayor George Moscone, Assemblyman Willie Brown, and columnist Herb Caen. On February 16, 1977, Tim left to go live with his son, John Victor, in Jonestown. On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones exhorted action on Tim: "Somebody-can they talk to...San Francisco-see that Stoen does not get by with this infamy... He has done the thing he wanted to do: have us destroyed." Jones's loyalists then instigated an Attorney General by falsely charging Tim had manipulated the 1975 mayoral election. Although he was cleared, the public stigma remained. On his day of death, Jones rendered a curse: "We win when we go down. Tim Stoen has nobody else to hate... Then he'll destroy himself... I'm speaking as a prophet today." For nine years after Jonestown, Tim experienced profound grief and guilt. On April 1, 1988, he found relief due, he says, "to something totally outside my control." On March 9, 1997, he married a Swedish widow, Kersti ("Shesti"). It became the happiest of marriages. On June 26, 2000, he resumed his career as a California prosecuting attorney. In 2010, Tim was nominated to the California District Attorneys Association as Prosecutor of the Year. In 2014, he was honored as one of the five top wildlife prosecutors in the state, at a presentation attended by the governor.