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| Chowchilla, Calif., bus kidnapper requests parole |
| By timesargus.com |
| Published: 11/16/2015 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three young men from wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families spent more than a year working on their perfect crime. They converted three prisoner transport vans, built an underground bunker to hold their hostages, even made a lead box to hold the $5 million in ransom they expected to collect to block radio signals if authorities inserted tracking devices. Then they kidnapped a school bus full of children and buried them under mounds of dirt in a crime that haunts the victims nearly 40 years later. “They basically stole our whole youth. Our childhood was completely turned upside down,” said Jodi Heffington-Medrano, who was 10 at the time. Brothers James and Richard Schoenfeld were convicted along with their friend Frederick Newhall Woods in the kidnapping, which lasted more than a day before the children were able to dig their way out. Now, only Woods remains behind bars, and he is asking a state parole board to free him. Read More. |
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