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One of three men who were convicted of kidnapping 26 children from a school bus and holding them captive in a buried trailer at a California quarry has been granted parole.
Schoenfeld, his brother Richard and their friend Fred Woods – who were all from wealthy families in the San Francisco Bay Area – were convicted in 1976.
The men spent 18 months hatching the plot and planned to demand a $5m ransom for the return of the children, who ranged between five and 14 years old.
The hostages were taken from Chowchilla as they returned from a swimming trip and driven to a quarry near Livermore, where they were kept inside a partially-buried ventilated trailer filled with mattresses, food and water …. http://news.sky.com