Buried: The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

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True Crime, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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If you’re a parent, then you’ve probably spent a lot of time imagining nightmare scenarios for your kids. Y’know, you lose sight of them in Target for a couple of minutes, your mind starts to go in all kinds of awful directions. You’re careful about who they spend time with, you watch what they’re up to online. You make sure they know they can talk to you about anything. But the raw fact is, you can’t keep your kids in a bubble. You can wall off all the obvious angles of attack, but sometimes the danger comes completely out of nowhere. Sometimes, the threat is something nobody could have ever seen coming. Join us for the story of one of California's most startling crimes--the abduction of an entire bus full of children, and their driver. Sources:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/18/frederick-woods-kidnapped-school-bus-children-parole/10356066002/https://www.discoveryplus.com/video/house-of-horrors-kidnapped/buried-alivehttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/48-hours-live-to-tell-the-chowchilla-kidnapping-2020/#xhttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/us/ed-ray-bus-driver-who-helped-save-kidnapped-children-dies-at-91.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/23/archives/quarry-owners-son-called-a-loner-fond-of-old-cars.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/05/archives/a-puzzling-portrait-of-key-coast-kidnapping-suspect.htmlhttps://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Buried-Memories-Twenty-years-after-three-men-3773683.phphttps://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/30/archives/new-jersey-pages-2-fugitives-seized-in-the-abduction-of-26-children.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/29/us/chowchilla-kidnapping-parole.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/11/12/healthtalk-children-and-the-aftermath-of-trauma/409ebd0c-10bf-46e7-af42-4a2dff32d3e6/Follow us, campers!Patreon (join to get all episodes ad-free, at least a day early, an extra episode a month, and a free sticker!): https://patreon.com/TrueCrimeCampfireFacebook: True Crime CampfireInstagram: https://gramha.net/profile/truecrimecampfire/19093397079Twitter: @TCCampfire https://twitter.com/TCCampfireEmail: truecrimecampfirepod@gmail.comMERCH! https://true-crime-campfire.myspreadshop.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:22.7	If you're a parent, then you've probably spent a lot of time imagining nightmare scenarios
0:27.2	for your kids.
0:28.2	You know, you lose sight of them and target for a couple of minutes, your mind starts
0:32.0	to go in all kinds of awful directions.
0:34.8	You're careful about who they spend time with.
0:37.0	You watch what they're up to online.
0:39.1	You make sure they know they can talk to you about anything.
0:42.0	But the raw fact is, you can't keep your kids in a bubble.
0:45.7	You can wall off all the obvious angles of attack, but sometimes the danger comes completely
0:51.1	out of nowhere.
0:53.1	Sometimes, the threat is something nobody could have ever seen coming.
0:57.2	This is buried, the Chauchilla School Bus Kidnapping.
1:15.5	So campers, for this one we're in California, all the way back to July 1976, a year before
1:21.4	I was born.
1:22.9	Gerald Ford was president, the biggest movie in the country was The Omen, can't believe
1:26.8	they didn't wait for a Halloween release on that.
1:29.4	And at the top of the charts was Afternoon Delight by the Starland vocal band, a song that
1:33.6	had parents all across America pray and their kids wouldn't ask too many questions.
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