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The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

Crime With My Coffee
Crime With My Coffee
Episode • Oct 28, 2020 • 35m
June takes us in the Way Back Machine to the kidnapping of a school bus full of children returning from a field trip in California in 1976. Spoiler Alert: The children are all returned back to their parents alive.

Sources for this episode:
New York Times - 3 Plead Guilty '76 Chowchilla Kidnapping of 26 Children and Driver
New York Times - Ed Ray, Bus Driver During Kidnapping, Dies at 91
LA Times - From the Archives: The 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping
Wikipedia - 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping

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