Posted on 03/29/2022 7:11:53 PM PDT by Morgana
A 70-year-old man convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976 has been approved for parole.
Frederick Newhall Woods was found suitable for parole at a hearing Friday, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Joe Orlando confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
Parole commissioners reportedly decided Woods no longer is a danger to the public.
Woods masterminded the kidnapping plot after being inspired by the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry. His accomplices, brothers Richard and James Schoenfeld, were freed years ago. An appeals court ordered Richard Schoenfeld released in 2012, and former Gov. Jerry Brown paroled James Schoenfeld in 2015.
All three were from wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families when they kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver near Chowchilla.
They buried the children, who were between the ages of 5 to 14, along with their bus driver in a ventilated underground bunker east of San Francisco. After 16 hours, the victims were able to dig their way out and escape as the kidnappers were asleep.
Woods became eligible for parole in 1982 but was previously denied release 17 times.
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but by golly let’s keep jan 6 peaceful protestors in prison in solitary confinement without the possibility of bail because ‘they are too dangerous to let go’ according ot prosecutors and judges that have denied them bail
WOW
GTFOOH
This world is so crazy... would you even be SURPRISED for a moment if this man is released and then hired as a school bus driver?!
Chowchilla bus kidnapping: Rare photos from one of the largest abductions in U.S. history
Those kids are aging adults now. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings if one of them returned the favor.
The death penalty especially since the victims dug themselves out. What would have happened to them otherwise? It’s not like the kidnappers made a deal to release them or the police found the victims.
Tell me about it. Almost a Jonestown-level mass killing of children with this stunt. I too wouldn’t mind expanding the death penalty at least somewhat to cover life-changing crimes like this.
Frederick Newhall Woods, upon release from prison, says...
“Ahhh, another chance. This time, I’m gonna get it right!”
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