This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. He dug until he was exhausted, and then he kept on digging. They were good kids., See the article in its original context from. The ones he sold he made a lot ontwo or three hundred dollars for a junker, up into the thousands.. Mr. Woods also met Songel Nichols, who was to become his wife. And possess., See the article in its original context from. Following the kidnapping, Woods and his co-conspirators - Richard and James Schoenfeld - each pleaded guilty. They had panic attacks and nightmares about kidnapping and death. Gavin Newsom approves his parole. On August 4, Frederick, Richard, and James went to court in Chowchilla, where Frederick, Richard, and James pleaded innocent to more than 40 felony charges. I fully take responsibility for this heinous act." HORROR SLAYING gas and land His friends say Woods never hurt for money. 2023 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. We went [on dates] over there, to the estate, and most of the time it was chores, feeding horses, moving cars.. His father was expecting a lot from Woods which all the fathers in the world somehow expect from their children. His father. A spokesperson stated that Newhalls parole hearing was not convincing enough for him to be released. Frederick Newhall Woods was born 24 years ago, the son of Harriet Wright and Frederick Nickerson Woods 3d. They had been in the hole for nearly 16 hours, completely terrified. You see them and you rationalize all yourproblems will be over in 24 hours. Hes been married three times while behind bars. There was just miles and miles of scenery., One major point of her incompatibility with Mr. Woods, the young woman said, were his racial views. He has married three times during the period of his incarceration, and he has also purchased a mansion nearby. Currently, Frederick is 68 years old. Once the decision becomes final, California Gov. The couple had a $50aweek allowance from the family, adequate because they oaid no rent or utilities, but the young husband would never buy things for the home. Woods and the Schoenfeld brothers decided to take a nap and try again later. a 1938 graduate of Stanford University and a native of Massachusetts, is owner of the California Rock and Gravel Company, and of the gravel quarry where the bus and children were. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, BLOGS, AND OTHER While James and Richard Schoenfeld had success with the parole board last decade, Woods despite his many attempts had not had success until this year. On July 15, 1976, a group of 26 children attending summer classes at Dairyland Elementary School were returning from a trip to a local swimming pool when their bus, driven by Frank Edward Ray, was blocked on the road by three armed men and two white vans at 4.00pm. Meet Rafael Prez, The Crooked LAPD Officer Who Stole Pounds Of Cocaine And Inspired 'Training Day', 7 Creepy Cold Cases Where The Killer And Victim Still Remain Unknown, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Bill Young/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. Woods will next be eligible for parole in 2024. The marriage ended abruptly in early 1972, when Songel simply told her husband that she was leaving him. By 7:30 p.m., an all-points bulletin was broadcast while numerous people, including the parents of the missing children, initiated a widespread search. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. He had boyish charm that enabled him, when he could overcome his shyness, to enter into intimate relationships with women, but the relationships seemed to end quickly, and over these relationships there was the same quick, jealous guarding that caused him to ward off intruders on the family estate with a shotgun, and, on at least one occasion, with gunfire. We would not have lived much longer. Public DomainEd Ray and the children escaped from the buried moving truck after 16 hours. A van blocked the road ahead of the bus; one man held a gun to the driver while the other drove the bus. On Friday, March 25, 2022, Woods read aloud an apology at his parole hearing. I just remember the kids got a hold of me and were holding onto me. I fully take responsibility for this heinous act. After knocking down another battery from the lid, Ray and the boys cleared out dirt and debris until they made a hole large enough for one of the smaller boys to fit through. At the time of the abduction, Frank "Ed" Ray - the bus driver - was bringing students from Dairyland Elementary School home from a summer trip to the local fairgrounds. The young Schoenfeld is also sought in the kidnapping. I knew it.'. And now he rescues me every day, said Marshall. If were going to die, were going to die trying to get out of here, she remembered Ray and Marshall saying. Victims of the kidnapping, now adults, spoke to CNN in 2015 about their remaining fears relating to the tragic event. . As a teenager and a young married, he enjoyed a liberal stipend from his wealthy parents, but was penurious about purchasing such things as household goods. In response, James drove back to the Bay Area, unsure of what to do, while Frederick wrote a letter to a friend, but the friend turned the letter in to the FBI. The shotgun thing concerns accounts that Mr. Woods on one or two occasions fired over the heads of teenagers who attempted to enter the long drive up the hill at 800 Los Tancos Road where the Woods estate is situated. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, said his former wife, whose name is now Padgett and who is now living in Georgia. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. For a grueling 16 hours, the bus driver and one of the oldest students worked tirelessly to free themselves and the other children from the makeshift prison before they ran out of air or the roof of the truck collapsed in on them from the weight of the dirt above. Wedging a wooden beam through a small gap between the hole and the metal lid, they were able to move the lid, allowing Ray to reach up and pull down a heavy industrial battery that was used to weigh down the lid. CBS reported that in previous parole hearings he was evasive, unable or unwilling to follow prison rules and fail[ed] to acknowledge the severity of his crime. 'The sides of the van were bowing in I knew that I was going to die. If he went anywhere and he got a brochure of something, he'd, keep that.. He really didn't want people around here. His mother took a lot of home movies of us.. By the time I was 21, I was using meth. They will mind.. On July 29, fourteen days after the mass abduction, Frederick and James were both arrested when they were recognized by several civilians. He'd mention the trips they'd taken to Baja, California. Miraculously, the driver and children managed to dig themselves out and escape relatively unharmed and the kidnappers were eventually caught. PLEASE NOTE ORDERS MAY TAKE LONGER TO SHIP AT THIS TIME. But Woods and his attorney, Dominique Banos, emphasized that he had a discipline-free record since his last parole hearing in October 2019. And I was just angry, said Park. Fred (Frederick)Rick (Richard)Jim (James) Under immediate suspicion was Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the 24-year-old son of the quarry's millionaire owner. Additionally, several of the survivors have alleged they suffered from anxiety and nightmares as a result of the incident. Within two weeks, though, all three men had been captured. Frederick, Richard, and James targeted a school bus full of children, all aged 5 to 14, whom they got to stop by pretending that their van broke down in the middle of the road. An appeals court ordered Richard Schoenfeld released in 2012, and former Gov. Woods (the father) expected too much of him and he couldn't live up to it, she said. READ NEXT: Why A Georgia Beauty Queens Alleged Murderer Still Hasnt Been Tried in Her Death, Two Kidnappers of 26 Children Paroled; One Remains in Prison, Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. We enjoyed ourselves, she said. When the day was about to come to a close, worried parents contacted the school, which initially assumed that the bus had broken down in the road. Richard Schoenfeld was paroled in 2015; James was paroled three years later. Frederick and James panicked and fled northward in a car, while Richard decided to return home to confess to committing the mass abduction to his parents. He'd drive by the school [Woodside High] and he'd say, I went there when it was new, and he had a really funny view of integration. As per Woods's wife, he was a loner. Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. He cannot unilaterally reverse the parole decision, because Woods was not convicted of murder. Six days later, his older brother, James, and the third kidnapper, Frederick Newhall Woods, both 24, were captured -- Woods in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Schoenfeld in Menlo Park. If no action is taken, Woods parole would be granted within 120 days from Fridays hearing. The state would be willing to pay ransom for them. The Newhall Land and Farming Company commands huge investments in real estate, agriculture, cattle, oil, and gas. Their marriage, in the Calvary Baptist Church in Redwood City, was unpretentious and the wedding album portrays nothing except a normal American couple. "I tell myself I should be able to shake this off and deal with it. They all walked to the security shack at the quarry and told employees what had happened. It was later observed that elements of the abduction seem similar to a scenario depicted inThe Day the Children Vanished, a story written by Hugh Pentecost that was published in the 1969 fiction anthologyAlfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives; since there was a copy of the book in the Chowchilla library, it was assumed that the Pentecost story was the inspiration for the mass abduction. An appellate panel, which included the governor's late father, state Judge William Newsom, reduced the kidnappers' sentencesin 1980, giving them the chance at parole. Frederick Woods pictured in 2021 (AP) After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole. One of them took over the wheel while the other held Ray at gunpoint. IN 1976 a group of men kidnapped a school bus full of 26 children and a driver, burying them alive. Woods's parole has also previously been backed by some prominent supporters, including Democratic U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo of Palo Alto in 2015. ", Woods added: "I've had empathy for the victims which I didn't have then.". They pleaded guilty, were fined $125 each and placed on a year's probation. For about eleven hours, the hostages were all driven approximately 100 miles from Chowchilla to Livermore, where they were forced into a van that they buried deep in dirt back in December 1975. Police executed a search warrant on the 100-acre family estate in Portola. The portrait that emerges from interviews with Mrs. Padgett and others who knew 24yearold Fred Woods, most of them casually because he had very few friends, is one of a longersome say a loserwho got along poorly with people, and who perhaps as a result, cloaked himself in his possessions, carrying with him as a high school student not pictures of girls but pictures of his automobiles. A school bus carrying 26 students mysteriously vanished on the way back from a summer field trip, and three wealthy young men were the top suspects. There was no quit in him.. If we had anyone at our house that he invited, it was always his family or relatives, she said. Frederick Newhall Woods IV Richard Schoenfeld James Schoenfeld Alias Fred (Frederick) Rick (Richard) Jim (James) Gender Male (all three) Birth Date 1950s [1] Pathology Mass Abductors Modus Operandi Abduction No. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. CBS After driving a short distance, the men brought the school bus to a stop in a dry riverbed surrounded by bamboo and tall brush, where another van was waiting. Chowchilla bus kidnapper Fred Woods, 70, has been approved for parole - CNN. Mrs. Woods had her friends by the cottage on the big estate where they lived; her new husband had none. However, he was merely denied entry again, and James went back to Idaho, where he abandoned the car in Coeur d'Alene the next day and purchased a truck that he drove back to Washington. Theirs was a union of shared insecurity, according to the young woman who remarried after her divorce from Mr. Woods in 1972, after only a year of marriage. An appeals court later overturned the sentences, ruling the men should have a chance for parole at some point in their time behind bars. "I'm overwhelmed to the point that I had to leave work," said Darla Neal, who was a 10-year-old student at the time of the kidnapping. In the years after the kidnappings, the children continued to be affected by the trauma. While Woods has lived a relatively cushy life in prison, his victims continue to suffer from the trauma he inflicted upon them more than 40 years ago. It was a man identified from photographs as Frederick Newhall Woods who allegedly purchased, using a false name, the vans used in the kidnapping. The kidnapping, which was the subject of massive media attention when it happened, has resurfaced in popular culture in recent years through CBS and Fox television specials. Woods has spent the vast majority of his life in prison, where his disciplinary record reportedly includes citations for running an unauthorised gold mine, a car dealership, and a Christmas tree farm. What is lynching and what is the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill? Theyre vulnerable. It would really surprise me if he had anything to do with this thing. When they were married, Mr. Wood was a salesman at a paint store, but lost the job. It was back in July 1976, when three young men from. He came home and told me about it and was all excited. He'd go out and get a job for a few months, and that would apparently appease his father. Woods is related to California's wealthy Newhall family The Newhall Land and Farming Co. holds enormous investments in commercial and recreational ventures, agriculture, cattle, oil. At a parole hearing held online last week due to Covid-19 safety precautions that featured testimony from multiple survivors, Woods said that he is a changed man. Frederick Newhall Woods IV, James Schoenfeld, and Richard Schoenfeld planned the Chowchilla kidnapping for over a year. Furthermore, the brothers had run into severe debt and thus came on board for the kidnapping, as they needed the ransom money. Frederick Newhall Woods was 24 years old at the time of the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping. Bill Young/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe interior of the moving truck in which Ed Ray and 26 children were buried alive. To his young bride, Mr. Woods seemed inordinantly possessive, a collector, he hoarded things. Scattered across the aging estate were scores of automobiles, fire engines, buses, vans, a hundred or more. The escape took place before the kidnappers had even been able to call in their ransom demands. Frederick Newhall Woods hijacked a school bus full of 26 children at gunpoint, kidnapped them, and then attempted to murder . Public DomainFrederick Newhall Woods IV, James Schoenfeld, and Richard Schoenfeld planned the Chowchilla kidnapping for over a year. There, they were transferred to a buried moving truck, with mattresses and a little bit of food. It was enough to pay for some therapy but not enough to buy a house.'. Frederick Newhall Woods, now a bit frail, had been incarcerated 43 years for helping commit one of California's most shocking crimes. James was the second one to get paroled in 2015. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping is brought back to memory in CBS 48 Hours. On July 15, 1976, a school bus driver and 26 children aged between 5 and 14 were kidnapped by three armed men. He urged Woods to consider getting treatment. Woods' son, Fred Newhall Woods IV, 24, was missing. Under hypnosis, Ray was also able to remember one of the license plates of the vans that had taken them to the quarry, which was tied to Woods and both of his accomplices. Governor Gavin Newson then has 30 days to review the panels decision. Woods and the Schoenfelds planned their crime for more than a year and, in 1976, all pleaded guilty to kidnapping. Email us atexclusive@the-sun.comor call212 416 4552. We drove, up in an old fire (truck and he got on us for tres passingyou know, in this old fire truck. After about 12 hours on the road, the group was taken down into a ventilated bunker that contained mattresses and snacks on property owned by Woods father, prosecutors said. On the morning of July 17, they learned that their hostages had escaped the buried van. Though he has been recommended for parole, Gov Gavin Newsom will have the opportunity to refer the case to the full parole board for their review if he so chooses. The mechanic, who asked not to be identified, and who has been questioned intensively by local police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said that he had last seen Fred Woods in the early afternoon of July 15, the day of the kidnapping. Frederick Newhall Woods IV, 24, and brothers James Schoenfeld, 24, and Richard Schoenfeld, 22, held them captive in box truck in a rock quarry up north near Livermore. Woods said during an earlier parole hearing that he just 'got greedy.'. However, they found that there was a metal lid on top of the hole, which was heavy and immovable. Frederick Newhall Woods IV and Richard and James Schoenfeld were soon . I full take responsibility for this heinous act.. The 78acre Woods estate, called Hawthorne, where the young man lived in a converted outbuilding adjacent to the home of his grandmother and across a hill from his parents' home, is strewn with a hundred or more old vehicles, aging vans, a classic Pierce Arrow resting near decaying and nondescript family sedans, a hearse, buses, fire engines, some in garages, others rusting in the rain on hills gilded by summer stands of golden rye grass, fodder for a score or more of retired police horses bought and put to pasture by young Woods's grandmother, now an invalid and in the care of a nurse. Inside The 1976 Chowchilla Kidnapping That Left 26 Schoolchildren Buried Alive. Mr. The two Schoenfeld brothers and Mr. Woods were arrested in October 1974 after they were seen pushing a car off a road near the town of Downieville, northeast of San Francisco. One was that he kept the two vans he and the Schoenfelds used to transport the children and their driver to Livermore, California in the expectation that the notoriety of their crime would make the bus increasingly valuable. On July 15, 1976, three men captured a school bus in Chowchilla, California, kidnapping 26 children aged five to 14 and their driver. But even with the family, he was not close, she said. His parents, Fred and Harriet. Mass Abductors So, where are they now? However, his parents were always together and into each other. Then, after some 16 hours, bus driver Ed Ray and some of the older children in the group dug their way out of the trailer while the kidnappers slept and led the group to safety. The young mechanic who worked at the Woods estate described James as a pretty decent person. He was intelligent, quick with the math needed in the automobile trans actions, but usually quiet, the mechanic said. At trial, all three men pleaded guilty to kidnapping for ransom and robbery, and they were sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Ed Ray and 26 children were abducted at gunpoint by Frederick Newhall Woods and his two accomplices from a school bus in rural California. Through his relationship with the family, Mr. Woods stood to inherit, according to one source, one thirtysixth of the fortune. Twenty-six children and their bus. He just said she just left him, no discussion, no nothing.. One of the eldest children, Mitchell Marshall, bravely announced to the group that he wasn't going to die without putting up a fight. When Frederick Newhall Woods and two other gunmen hijacked the school bus in Chowchilla, California, it was considered the biggest kidnapping in US history. At the time, they were given 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Similarly, Larry Park remembers sitting in the darkness wondering 'how it was going to feel to die'. 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After nearly 40 years, James gained his freedom in April at the age of 63, after twenty parole hearings. Cars were his hobby and his income too, said an 18yearold youth who worked for the two men in the car restoration venture, and who was one of the last persons known to have seen Mr. Woods before his disappearance. After 16 hours, the victims were able to dig their way out and escapeas the kidnappers were asleep. Frantic parents, school officials and police . Woods appeared via video on Friday before the panel where his attorney, Dominique Banos, said his client has not faced any disciplinary actions since 2019. But opposing Woods's release were survivors Jennifer Brown Hyde and Laura Yazzi Fanning; Matthew Medrano, son of survivor Jodi Heffington Medrano who has since died; and Carol Marshall, mother of survivor Michael Marshall, and Lynda Carrejo. First, jammed phone lines meant that the kidnappers couldnt communicate their ransom demand. He was denied parole numerous times for his minimization of the crime, his behavior in prison, and his possession of contraband like pornography and cell phones. July 15-17, 1976: The school bus hijacking. Yet here I am, a mess.". At the time of the hostages' captivity, Frederick, Richard, and James had previously tried to call in their ransom, but without success due to, ironically, the flooding calls from reporters, law enforcement agencies, and tipsters. Authorities issued an all-points bulletin for young Woods and his two friends, James Schoenfeld, 24 and his brother, Richard Schoenfeld, 22, sons of a wealthy podiatrist. But the sing-a-longs came to a sobering halt when the vans came to a stop at a quarry near Livermore, where the captors forced Ray and the children down into a buried trailer stocked with mattresses, a small amount of food and water, and ventilation fans. of Mutual Victims 27 abducted Status Alive (all released) Two men boarded the bus wearing pantyhose over their heads and carrying sawed-off shotguns. In July 1976, dozens of parents in rural Chowchilla, California, faced their worst nightmare when their children went missing. He was always swaggering, she said. It was discovered he was running a gold mining business and a car dealership from behind bars without telling the prison. Frederick was paroled in August 2022. The guards were shocked to see the group and immediately called for the police. Fighting heat exhaustion, they poured water over their heads and kept pushing until they were able to knock the batteries off of the top of the hatch. The governor can only reverse parole if the inmate was convicted of murder, which Wood was not. Mrs. Padgett said she had lived with Fred Woods for some time before she learned that he had a younger sister, Wendy, who was retarded and kept in an institution. Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. Stopping over at a drainage slough, half of the passengers were forced into the van, which drove off before a second white van arrived sometime later, taking the remainder of the hostages. Jennifer Brown Hyde, another victim of the Chowchilla kidnapping, vividly remembered being ushered into the deep, dark hole at gunpoint: I felt like I was an animal going to the slaughterhouse.. 'He's ruined the lives of dozens of these kids - they still struggle, a lot of them, with the aftereffects of this. Born sometime in the 1952 and 1954, respectively, Frederick, James, and Richard all came from privileged backgrounds, having lived in wealthy neighborhoods in the San Francisco area. Sometime after 8:00 p.m., the school bus was discovered in the drainage slough, covered in bamboo and brush, but with no sign of Ray or the children. Around 4:00 p.m., as Ray was driving the students home, a white van suddenly pulled in front of the school bus and came to a stop in the middle of the road. I was 24 years old, he said. According to reports, hes directing at least three enterprises from behind bars, including Ambria Acres Christmas tree farm, the Little Bear Creek gold mine near Lake Tahoe, and another used car business. I think I only saw a few pictures of him and his parents together in the family pictures. 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A draft ransom note was found at the scene, with some of its phrasing seeming to make reference to Hugh Pentecost's story, 'The Day the Children Vanished', which had been published in Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives and was displayed in the Chowchilla public library. Ed Ray and Michael Marshall had saved them all. Browse 1 frederick newhall woods stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. On July 15, 1976, Frederick, Richard, and James put their scheme into motion. While the men had equipped the van with fans and mattresses, carved makeshift toilets into the wheel wells, and provided bread, peanut butter, and water, Ray knew he and the students wouldnt survive long if they ran out of air. However, Newhall has kept applying for parole 17 times, and his most recent rejection came in October 2019. A panel of two commissioners with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on Friday recommended parole for Frederick Newhall Woods, one of three men who hijacked a school bus with 26 children aboard in Chowchilla, Calif. on July 15, 1976. Matthew Medrano, son of Jodi Heffington Medrano, sobbed several times as he recounted watching his mother change from being a loving, outgoing survivor until she experienced darker, bitter thoughts and depression before her early death. He says the nightmares have finally stopped and that healing continues if you allow it., Park also said he met his kidnappers, shook their hands, and forgave them, which changed [his] life.. She said that she had begun dating Fred Woods in late 1974he said his mother put him up to calling meand that the relationship had been an intimate, if unsatisfactory one. 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