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They Walk Among America - US True Crime
Fitton Benjamin
4.1 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of They Walk Among America… Chowchilla was a rural town in Madera County, California. In 1976 the population of the farming community was around 5,000, spread across sprawling acres of land. Most of those living in Chowchilla had been born and raised there, in the Central Valley. The isolated countryside didn’t provide much for kids to do during the summer months, so many enrolled in summer school. Dairyland Elementary had been assigned as the location for classes in the summer of 76 and over 125 children signed up to attend. 26 of those pupils would become victims of one of the most notorious mass kidnappings in US history…
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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.
This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.
Researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann.
Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.
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| 0:53.3 | On this episode of They Walk Among America, Chowchilla was a rural town in Madeira County, California. |
| 1:02.4 | In 1976, the population of the farming community was around 5,000, spread across sprawling acres of land. |
| 1:10.7 | Most of those living in Chowchilla had been born and |
| 1:13.2 | raised there in the Central Valley. The isolated countryside didn't provide much for kids to do |
| 1:19.1 | during the summer months, so many enrolled in summer school. Dairyland Elementary had been |
| 1:25.3 | assigned as the location for classes in the summer of 76, and over 125 children signed up to attend. |
| 1:33.8 | 26 of those pupils would become victims of one of the most notorious mass kidnappings in U.S. history. |
| 1:43.7 | Hello listeners, I'm your host, Nina Instead, and welcome to episode 38 of They Walk |
| 1:49.9 | Among America, a joint production between the Law and Crime Podcast Network and |
| 1:55.0 | They Walk Among Us, the award-winning true crime podcast. |
| 2:20.5 | Thank you. word-winning true crime podcast. After a long day at summer classes in Derryland Elementary School in Chowchilla, |
| 2:27.3 | the children walked out the front doors and made their way onto the big yellow Dairyland Union school bus as usual. |
| 2:33.0 | They greeted the bus driver, a man they knew well, Edward Ray. 55-year-old Ed had been driving the school bus for years |
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