A 70-year-old man who kidnapped a bus full of school children and buried them alive in 1976 has been approved for parole after spending more than 45 years in a California prison, it is reported.
Frederick Newhall Woods and two other men took 26 kids, aged five to 14, along with the bus driver, near the town of Chowchilla, 125 miles from San Francisco.
He and the other two kidnappers Richard and James Schoenfeld buried them alive in a bunker that had an air vent at a quarry that was owned by Woods’ father.
