'His mind is still evil and he is out to get what he wants,' one survivor told the parole board.
FILE - In this July 17, 1976, photo members of the Alameda County Crime Lab and FBI are pictured working around the opening to the van where 26 Chowchilla school children and their bus driver were held captive at a rock quarry.still incarcerated will be released from the California Men's Colony after 17 previous parole rejections.
"It was awfully hot and we kept putting water on our heads to cool off," Ray told Merced Sun-Star in 1976."We had a hard time trying to keep the children from crying. I had to beg them not to scream." “We needed multiple victims to get multiple millions, and we picked children because children are precious,” James Schoenfeld explained at a 2015 parole hearing. “The state would be willing to pay ransom for them. And they don't fight back. They're vulnerable.”
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