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| Infamous school bus kidnapper granted parole in California |
| By q13fox.com |
| Published: 08/03/2015 |
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Nearly 40 years after receiving a life sentence for his role in the largest mass abduction in U.S. history, James Schoenfeld — one of the three infamous Chowchilla school bus kidnappers — will walk out of a California prison this week a free man. The California Parole Board moved to grant the 63-year-old his freedom in April, at Schoenfeld’s 20th parole hearing since his 1977 conviction on 27 counts of kidnapping, according to Luis Patino, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Gov. Jerry Brown — who was in his first term as governor at the time of the chilling kidnappings — had 120 days to decide whether he’d intervene by sending the case back to the parole board, but when that deadline came and went late last week, Schoenfeld’s release became imminent. Read More. |
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