45TH ANNIVERSARY: CHOWCHILLA SCHOOL BUS KIDNAPPING
Jul 11, 2021
3 minutes
Twenty-six children and one middle-aged bus driver were abducted and buried alive in the largest kidnapping in US history. Known as the 1976 Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping case, it has been 45 years since that terrible day, and the survivors still bear the scars and torment that they endured on July 15, 1976.
Back then, Chowchilla was a much smaller town than it is today. Roughly 24km from Madera, California, the community is known for its two prisons –
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