Wondery Presents Against The Odds: Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

Over My Dead Body

Wondery

True Crime, Tally, Matt Baglio, News, Society & Culture, Fox Lake, Rob Moor, Markel, Exhibit C, Matthew Shaer, Joe Exotic, Documentary

4.4 • 28.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When an entire school bus full of children goes missing from a rural California town, local law enforcement, the feds, and the media mount an enormous manhunt. The kidnappers locked the children and their bus driver in a storage container, burying them alive in a quarry. With no rescue in sight, the bus driver tries to get the children and himself out. This is the story of the largest kidnapping for ransom in American history.

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0:00.0	How do you survive when faced with impossible odds?
0:04.0	That's the question asked in each season of Wondries Podcast against the odds.
0:08.8	Hosts Mike Corrie and Cassie De Peckle put you in the shoes of real people who looked
0:13.0	death in the eyes and lived to tell the tale.
0:15.8	These stories are filled with the unshakable human drive to survive and the inspiring
0:20.2	bravery of the heroes who helped.
0:22.3	The newest season of Against the Odds takes you to the largest kidnapping for ransom in
0:26.8	American history, where a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver was hijacked
0:32.3	by three masked gunmen on an isolated road on the outskirts of Chao Chila, California.
0:37.6	The bus and its passengers disappeared seemingly without a trace, local law enforcement, the
0:42.5	feds and the media mounted an enormous manhunt, but the trail quickly ran dry.
0:47.6	You're about to hear a clip from the Chao Chila school bus kidnapping from Against the
0:51.6	Odds.
0:52.6	To be listening, follow Against the Odds wherever you get your podcasts and, hey, prime members,
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1:03.9	A listener note, this episode contains adult language.
1:17.8	Ed Ray steers his school bus down a lonely road that runs between long rows of almond trees.
1:25.1	He squints as he adjusts his visor to block the blazing afternoon sun.
1:30.8	It's July 15th, 1976.
1:34.6	Ed is driving kids home from Dairyland Elementary School in Chao Chila, California.
1:40.7	Summer school is in session.
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