1976 Chowchilla kidnapping — the full case file

SOLVEDBerenda Slough / Chowchilla, California (abduction site); victims later held at a quarry in Livermore, California2:0322 September 2026

On July 15, 1976, three armed men hijacked a school bus in Chowchilla, California, abducting the driver and 26 children and burying them in a trailer at a Livermore quarry; all victims escaped and survived, and the three kidnappers were later convicted and, by 2022, all paroled.

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