Man Who Kidnapped Bus Full Of Kids & Buried Them Alive Being Freed On Parole
perezhilton.com[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A man who kidnapped a bus full of school children and buried them alive could soon be walking free.
In 1976, Frederick Newhall Woods (above) was part of a monstrous trio who abducted 26 kids, aged five to 14, and their bus driver in California in one of the biggest kidnapping plots in US history.
The now-70-year-old and his accomplices — Richard and James Schoenfeld — hijacked the bus in the town of Chowchilla.
They transferred the youngsters and the driver into vans, then drove the captives 100 miles away to Livermore. In a move apparently inspired by the movie Dirty Harry, all 27 hostages were then buried alive in a quarry owned by Woods’ father while the trio demanded a $5 million ransom from the state Board of Education.
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