California, USA– A 70-year-old man has spent four decades in prison for kidnapping a bus that was full of children as well as burying them alive. He will be released if the Governor of California named Gavin Newsom will approve his parole.
A panel of two commissioners with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Friday, March 25, recommended parole for Frederick Newhall Woods, which is one of the three men who has hijacked a school bus with 26 children abroad in Chowchilla, in the state, on July 15, 1976.
Moreover, Wood’s attempt for parole on Friday.
Woods and two other gunmen, Richard as well as James Schoenfeld, have stopped a bus driver named Ed Ray as he was taking the young ones back home from the Dairyland Elementary School, which is around 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.
The kidnappers forced the children and Ray into vans, as per the court records. After around 12 hours on the road, the group was taken down into a bunter that was ventilated that bunker that contained mattresses as well as snacks on the property owned by the father of Woods, says prosecutors.
Along with this, the frightened young ones, as well as the bus driver, were buried for multiple hours, the roof began to collapse from the weight of the dirt.
Furthermore, Woods mentioned, “I have had empathy for the victims, which I did not have then. I have had a character change since then. I was 24 years old. Now I fully understand the terror as well as trauma I caused. I totally take responsibility for this heinous act.”
