TSFU: Ep. 143- Mass Child Abduction: The Chowchilla Kidnapping
That's So Fcked Up
Ashley Love Richards
4.5 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Fallon summarizes the latest true crime hit on MAX, Chowchilla, and also tells us info not given in the doc!
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-Audio editing by Dallas Hernandez.
-Research by Fallon Morey.
-Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chowchilla,_California
- https://web.archive.org/web/20151103185845/http://www.ci.chowchilla.ca.us/city%20facts/history.htm#1976
- https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/17/archives/26-children-found-safe-after-being-kidnapped-from-bus-in-california.html?_r=0
- https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/08/us/chowchilla-dirty-harry-kidnapper-denied-parole-trnd/index.html
- https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping
- https://doi-org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1176/ajp.140.12.1543
- https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/02/health/chowchilla-childhood-trauma/index.html
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A kid named Michael Marshall sticks his hand up through the like little crack, his little arm, |
| 0:08.1 | and start shoving at the batteries until he is able to muscle them off the lid and they're able to move the sheet metal aside. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm just thinking what if that, what like what if they say that in the documentary. |
| 0:19.2 | They're like all that's holding his arm from being chapped off is every... |
| 0:23.4 | Oh, my God, what a brave little soldier. |
| 0:26.9 | Jesus. |
| 0:27.8 | That is so fucked up. |
| 0:30.7 | It's fucked up. |
| 0:32.5 | So fucked up. |
| 0:33.6 | It is just so damn fucked up. |
| 0:42.3 | That's fucked up. |
| 0:43.3 | Are you so ready, Fallon? |
| 0:46.3 | I'm so ready. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm ready to tell you about 26 kids getting kidnapped. |
| 0:51.3 | But, you know, it's a good story. |
| 0:52.3 | You know, I'll take it over, you know, |
| 0:55.3 | just hearing stories of children being singularly intensely abused. So I'm ready to party. I'm |
| 1:03.3 | ready to get on the bus. Not the Chow Chula Bus. Ready to get on the party bus to hear about |
| 1:08.7 | the Chow Chow Chila bus too soon. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:12.6 | You know, I don't know. |
| 1:16.7 | So you guys, welcome back to the podcast. |
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