By Zach Jewell
In 1976, a small farming town in northern California found itself in the national spotlight in the midst of a harrowing story. A bus full of 26 children and their driver were kidnapped by three men and buried alive in a truck trailer.
Now, the last of the Chowchilla bus kidnappers still in prison, 70-year-old Frederick Woods, has been approved for parole 45 years after the abduction, CNN reported.
The three kidnappers, Richard and James Schoenfeld along with Woods, kidnapped 26 children and one adult from a school bus. They also planned on demanding $5 million before letting anyone go, a plan that was reportedly inspired by the 1971 Clint Eastwood film “Dirty Harry.”
