Gives me an idea for a new Reality Show.
Posted on 07/31/2015 7:30:52 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A convicted kidnapper who kept 26 children and a school bus driver in a buried trailer has been granted his freedom - after the governor of California didn't object to parole.
James Schoenfeld, 63, kidnapped the bus carrying the group then buried them alive in a chilling heist inspired by the film Dirty Harry.
Schoenfeld confessed to carrying out the 1976 crime with his brother Richard and his friend Fred Woods.
He was originally given a life sentence, which was commuted to allow the possibility of parole. This will now be granted to him after almost 40 years in prison.
Governor Jeremy Brown could have denied the recommendation of Schoenfeld's parole board, but took no action.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This and son of Sam and patty Hearst. I remember were some of the big stories.
Ditto — GMTA!
"There they were held captive inside a buried, ventilated trailer stocked with mattresses, food and water. The victims eventually managed to dig their way out and escaped unhurt."
He doesn't seem to be aware of what's going on in the world around him.
A person that would do this to all those children is so depraved, so evil that he should never had been kept in prison and should have been executed and removed from society decades ago..........
Was he Gov 39 years ago when the crime occurred?
Yep, me too. I was hugely into ‘current events’ for the whole of my childhood and adolescence and- well, I’m still into it. I remember my homeroom teacher in middle school would give us a current events briefing every morning, which I thought was cool, but he couldn’t keep his own politics out of it. This was during Watergate.
He’s start off by seething something like “Today is April 26th, and Richard Nixon is STILL the President of the United States”.
How horrible! I have no memory of this awful event! These men should never walk free again!
Moving to an unsanctified chitty no doubt...
There was a time when kidnappers were executed.................
Yep. Elected as the state’s youngest governor in 1974.
Only because his father was a successful California governor.
He was a shrub before being a shrub was popular...
Only in Cali would this monster breath free air again ( maybe VT too). I lived a short piece down the road from where this happened at the time.
Murderers spend less time in prison - especially illegal alien murderers. Putting this man on parole is at least consistent with ‘equal protection under the law’.
I may not like it but there it is.
It's about criminals. It's about the liberal insanity of repeatedly releasing these animals back onto the streets. 90% of all violent crime is committed by repeat offenders.
This animal should have been executed. At the very least, he should never see the light of day. And that goes for probably 60% of all parolees.
When I grew up in Los Angeles, the news was nothing but the Manson Family, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, The Zodiac Killer, The Hillside Strangler(s), The Freeway Killer(s), Black Panthers, and Chowchilla.
The 1970s was nothing but freaks and weirdos, lunatics and perverts, bloody ghastly murder cults, and all the adults blissfully on drugs --- all with the inept boob Jimmy Carter in the White House and space cadet Jerry Brown in the CA governor's mansion adding liberal-assed screwballs to his cabinet that he's only met briefly in organic markets and phony Navajo sweat lodges in Petaluma run by a fake 'Indian shaman' from Brooklyn named Marty Goldfarb. The creepy dangerous idiocy was non-stop.
When Reagan came, the changes to California happened almost overnight. Californians had enough of the 1970s and resolved to beat the creepy liberals bloody and chase them away with torches and pitchforks.
NOW look.
Only because his father was a successful California governor.
Jerry Brown also benefited from the Watergate scandal. The GOP's strongest candidate, Lt. Gov. Ed Reinicke was convicted of a Watergate-related charge--by an all-black, all-Democrat jury in Washington, so the GOP ran Sen. Houston Flournoy (R-Pomona)--a RINO if there ever was one. Brown won in a landslide, as did Democrats across the country in the "Watergate" election of 1974.
By the way, Reinicke's conviction was later overturned, but his political career was toast.
These guys would be given a chance to get over a wall before they got shot. If they made it over the wall, they were free on parole. I don't think they'd make it over the wall if I was in charge.
Gives me an idea for a new Reality Show.
let him out so he can ruminate on his pathetic wasted life....
IIRC,no one was killed during this event.....we let actual murderers out I half the time...
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