178: Greed - The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1976 in a small cattle town in northern California, a school bus full of 26 children - disappeared. When the parents started realizing their kids hadn't made it home from summer school - the entire town quickly jumped into action and within hours the bus was discovered by a farmer flying over a dry riverbed in his crop duster.... the only problem - it was empty...

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0:10.0	You're listening to a morbid network podcast.
0:14.0	Hi, my name is Carly Kew.
0:20.0	And if you're anything like me, you may have noticed that there are a lot of big questions out there
0:24.4	that need answers.
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0:30.8	Well, at least some of them.
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0:45.0	kidnappers drove them a hundred miles from Chaucella California to a rock quarry.
0:50.0	They buried the children and the driver alive 12 feet underground in a moving truck
0:57.0	while the driver and children managed to dig themselves out.
1:00.0	The 28 hour nightmare still wants the three years later.
1:08.0	Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners,
1:11.0	and this case is wild.
1:14.8	Anne was also spearheaded by Greg, so we are both going to tell this story.
1:20.3	You see, my mom's in town and Greg offered to write this episode because he was so interested in the case but when he pitched it to me
1:28.4	I got jealous because I've heard of this case before and then I started researching myself and then I really wanted to be involved.
1:38.4	So wait, am I the greedy one? That's my way for today's sin.
1:43.0	Greed.
1:45.0	Content greedy.
1:47.0	Content great.
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