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. I fully take responsibility for this heinous act.'. He kept the newspaper clips, because his name was in the papers for finding the body.. It was discovered he was running a gold mining business and a car dealership from behind bars without telling the prison. Upon discovering that he and James were missing, police launched a manhunt for them and also placed a tight watch on Richard, whom they also suspected. After discovering that they could reach the top of the truck if they stacked the mattresses, Ray and Marshall worked for hours trying to wedge a piece of wood into the opening in the roof. A number of them have even spent time in prison for "doing something controlling to somebody else". Once all 27 members of the group were inside, the kidnappers put a heavy piece of metal and two 100-pound industrial batteries on top of the entry theyd cut into the roof of the truck, filled in the rest of the hole with dirt, and left the scene. 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. An appeals court ordered Richard Schoenfeld released in 2012, and former Gov. Following the kidnapping, Woods and his co-conspirators - Richard and James Schoenfeld - each pleaded guilty. And he's just letting those trucks, beautiful fire engines, turn into junkers. 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. It is an exaggeration to say that there seemed to be two Fred Woodsesthe shy, unsocial young man who seemed to seek solace in the old cars and other possessions he surrounded himself with on the family estate, and the cocky, wisecracking cowboy accused of kidnappingbut two aspects of his personality emerge from conversations with those who knew him casually and those who knew him well. His mother took a lot of home movies of us.. A van blocked the road ahead of the bus; one man held a gun to the driver while the other drove the bus. The young man constantly sought to please his father, she said, but always felt inadequate. It was like looking at death.. Frederick Newhall Woods, now a bit frail, had been incarcerated 43 years for helping commit one of California's most shocking crimes. The guilty plea was controversial, with the prosecution arguing that bodily harm was indeed inflicted upon the hostages, but only psychologically. 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. IN 1976 a group of men kidnapped a school bus full of 26 children and a driver, burying them alive. Scrawled above it are the words, Our first baby. Escape was further cut off by a metal lid that covered the top of the truck and was weighed down with two 100-pound industrial batteries. Governor Jerry Brown, who was in his first year during the kidnappings, had 120 days to decide whether he wanted to send the case back to the parole board, but once the time elapsed, James release became imminent. After driving the victims around for nearly 12 hours, the kidnappers buried them in a moving van trailer 12 feet underground with very little food and water. Fred Woods and James and Richard Schoenfeld, the men who kidnapped 26 children in 1976. 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. His parents often . His younger brother, Richard Allen, 22 years old, is already in custody and is held in bail of $1 million on 27 counts of kidnapping of the schoolchildren and their bus driver. 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. Frederick Woods was among three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976. . Gender Woods will next be eligible for parole in 2024. So he and 14-year-old Michael Marshall got to work. Male (all three) This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. If were going to die, were going to die trying to get out of here, she remembered Ray and Marshall saying. He said he was afraid people would make fun of him., One other incident struck his former wife as unusual. The state would be willing to pay ransom for them. Thanks for contacting us. Now Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the "mastermind" of the trio, could be paroled next month and walk out of state prison as a multimillionaire. They all walked to the security shack at the quarry and told employees what had happened. Frederick Newhall Woods was born 24 years ago, the son of Harriet Wright and Frederick Nickerson Woods 3d. Like his accomplices, he received 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. 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. Once the decision becomes final, California Gov. They pleaded guilty, were fined $125 each and placed on a year's probation. Currently, Frederick is 68 years old. If he did a good job, he'd brag about it to his father, but when he lost his job as A salesman, he didn't want to tell it to his father or me, his former wife recalled. After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole. Email us atexclusive@the-sun.comor call212 416 4552. Less than a week later, Frederick Woods was captured in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and James Schoenfeld was captured in Menlo Park, California. Terr also found that many of the children had developed a strong fear of strangers, even if they were in safe public areas with numerous passerby, and even refusing to answer the front door. Frederick, Richard, and James, drawing from their discussions over perfect crimes, decided to get the money they needed by holding hostages for ransom. (1) Frederick Newhall Woods IV, son of the quarry owner, 25 years old, 6 foot, 145 pounds, brown hair and blue eyes; (2) James Schoenfeld, son of a podiatrist in Atherton, 25 years old, 6 foot, 170 pounds, red hair and blue eyes; (3) James' brother Richard Schoenfeld, 22 years old, 5 foot 11 inches, 150 pounds, blonde hair and blue eyes. of Mutual Victims But he was lonely, and it was lonely living with him.. of 1. Woods masterminded the kidnapping plot after being inspired by the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry. 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. He just said she just left him, no discussion, no nothing.. Frederick Newhall Woods, 70, was one of three men who kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver in Chowchilla, a small city in Northern California's Madera County, more than 45 years ago. Similarly, Larry Park remembers sitting in the darkness wondering 'how it was going to feel to die'. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Jerry Brown paroled James Schoenfeld in 2015. It was enough to pay for some therapy but not enough to buy a house.'. He is the heir to a sizable family fortune and his lawyer, Gary Dubcoff, has repeatedly argued that apart from the commitment offense, [Woods] has no history of violence, whether before prison or in it. During that time, the younger Woods, in partnership with 24yearold James Leonard Schoenfeld, the son of Dr. John B. Schoenfeld, a podiatrist of nearby Atherton, restored the vehicles they bought and sold them in a business venture in which they employed parttime mechanics. were rarely seen in the company of their son They went their separate ways. 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. Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. Thankfully, all the children and their bus driver returned home 36 hours after they were abducted, safe but traumatized. ', And I'd say he was tinliberated about women. The guards were shocked to see the group and immediately called for the police. It was back in July 1976, when three young men from. AP Photo/California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Vermont kidnapping victim drives off with hands still tied together, Volkswagen reportedly refused to help cops track stolen car with toddler inside, Chinas secret police are actively hunting people on US soil, Dances With Wolves actor hit with disturbing new charges. 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. Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. A 70-year old California man who has spent four decades in prison for kidnapping a bus full of children and burying them alive could be freed if Gov. 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. Woods said during an earlier parole hearing that he just 'got greedy.'. We were friends, but we didn't hang around together. ', 'He could have done much more,' she said. Ive had empathy for the victims, which I didnt have then. Woods said. But man, you're in the weird people capital of the world, so I didn't think much.. "I was 24 years old," he said, per Fox News. On July 15, 1976, three men captured a school bus in Chowchilla, California, kidnapping 26 children aged five to 14 and their driver. 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. He attended public school at Portola Valley's Woodside High School, the kind of school that people lie, cheat and steal to get into, said a neighbor, and it was there that he met James Schoenfeld, also charged with the kidnapping. After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole. Meanwhile, investigators determined that the buried van, which they managed to bring up from the ground, belonged to Frederick. Bill Young/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty ImagesThe interior of the moving truck in which Ed Ray and 26 children were buried alive. I was doing acid. He was always alone in them and his parents were always together., Others who knew Mr. Woods casuallya service station attendant where he had his cars certified for sale, a former high school classmate and a neighbor who saw him occasionally also agreed with the description of him as a loner, the kind of guy who didn't seem to want to make friends., In contrast with this picture of Mr. Woods is the description by acquaintances of the Schoenfeld brothers. 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. I fully take responsibility for this heinous act." HORROR SLAYING When Frederick Newhall Woods and two other gunmen hijacked the school bus in Chowchilla, California, it was considered the biggest kidnapping in US history. Eighteen months after the mass abduction, one of the older male victims shot a Japanese tourist with a BB gun when the tourist's car broke down in front of his home. 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. At the time, they were given 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. An incredible survival story. He was left with relatives every year for at least a month or two all his life when his parents traveled. Woods is an unusual prisoner in another way: he is believed to have inherited a massive amount of money from his wealthy parents, claimed in one court filing to be around $100m. By Wayne King Special to The New York Times. As for Mr. Woods's rely tionship with his former wife, the girlfriend said he talked of only one happy time with her. The panel's proposed parole decision will become final within 120 days. If no action is taken, Woods parole would be granted within 120 days from Fridays hearing. I rescued him before he was a year old. ', The comments below have not been moderated, By Prosecutors said Woods and his accomplices planned the kidnapping as if it was the crime of the century, and demanded $5 million in ransom from the state Board of Education. Woods had also inherited a trust fund reportedly worth $100 million, as he came from two very wealthy families, and he bought a mansion a short distance away from the prison. What is lynching and what is the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill? Two victims who participated during Fridays hearing said they agreed that Woods should be paroled, according to NBC. 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. In July 1976, dozens of parents in rural Chowchilla, California, faced their worst nightmare when their children went missing. I think he was not hostileyou really couldn't put it as hostile, the youth said. 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. Victim Jennifer Brown Hyde, who was nine at the time, said she 'felt like an animal going to the slaughterhouse.' The SF Gate reported in 2001 that the brothers had been in contact with some of the kidnapping victims over the years, repeatedly apologizing for what they had done. District Attorney Warren Haas said, It was a minor matter. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. We enjoyed ourselves, she said. He was bitter about it, about the way his marriage had broken up, said a 20yearold woman who was Fred Woods's girlfriend until about 10 months ago, when she broke off her relationship with him. Now Woods, who was 24 when he committed the kidnapping, has moved one step closer to leaving prison. 'I tell myself I should be able to shake this off and deal with it. Finally, 16 hours after the children had been buried alive, a ray of light streamed through the dirt and into the dark truck. 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. On July 15, 1976, 26 children ranging in age from five to 14 boarded a bus driven by 55-year-old Frank Edward Ed Ray for a summer field trip to a local swimming pool. Determined to save all of the children, the bus driver and the oldest student acted quickly. He was not even getting along with his parents and got few friends. 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. The kidnappers made each of the children give their names and hand over a piece of clothing, and then climb down a ladder into the van, buried more than 12-feet below the ground. I full take responsibility for this heinous act.. of Mutual Victims 27 abducted Status Alive (all released) One of the eldest children, Mitchell Marshall, bravely announced to the group that he wasn't going to die without putting up a fight. And Im remembering the last time that I saw her and wishing I could have told her goodbye.. 13:36 GMT 30 Mar 2022. 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. 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. Frederick Newhall Woods hijacked a school bus full of 26 children at gunpoint, kidnapped them, and then attempted to murder . Police soon realized that only someone with unlimited access to the quarry would have been able to bury the truck and bring in 27 prisoners in the middle of the night without being seen. However, Newhall has kept applying for parole 17 times, and his most recent rejection came in October 2019. my friends, by the house, and if we had anyone that he invited it was always his family or relative, no one else.. Inside The 1976 Chowchilla Kidnapping That Left 26 Schoolchildren Buried Alive. "Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. Woods, now 70, is the only member of the kidnapping group still incarcerated at this time. However, 36 years later, in 2012, Richard was the first of the trio to be granted parole. "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. Lynda Carrejo Labendeira, who was 10 years old at the time, told the Associated Press in 2015 that the battery-operated blowers that circulated the air in the bunker began to fail. Twenty-six children and their bus. It was not that he couldn't keep a job, as much as he didn't want to work, the former girl friend said. Like us on Facebook atwww.facebook.com/TheSunUSand follow us from our main Twitter account at@TheSunUS, 2020 THE SUN, US, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY | YOUR AD CHOICES | SITEMAP, Frederick Newhall Woods has been approved for parole in 2022, Frederick Newhall Woods, along with James and Richard Schoenfeld, were arrested for the 1976 kidnapping. Regarding their married life. 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 buried. Nevertheless, the three were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, although the prevention of parole was later overturned in 1981. No. Additionally, several of the survivors have alleged they suffered from anxiety and nightmares as a result of the incident. But when they woke up and turned on the news, they saw that the children had already escaped. The third followed in the truck. The three suspects were arrested two weeks after the kidnapping and were initially sentenced to life in prison without parole. There was no quit in him, said Park of Marshall, adding that eventually Marshall broke the surface and brave person that he is, crawled out of the hole first.. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Yet here I am, a mess.". We needed multiple victims to get multiple millions, and we picked children because they are precious, James Schoenfeld said at a 2015 parole hearing. The company reported gross sales of $1.5 million last year, and the young Mr. Woods is reported to hold stock in the company. ", Woods added: "I've had empathy for the victims which I didn't have then.". Victims of the kidnapping, now adults, spoke to CNN in 2015 about their remaining fears relating to the tragic event. 'He's ruined the lives of dozens of these kids - they still struggle, a lot of them, with the aftereffects of this. 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. Public DomainEd Ray and the children escaped from the buried moving truck after 16 hours. Woods became eligible for parole in 1982 but was previously denied release 17 times. As per Woods's wife, he was a loner. Fridays hearing was Woods 18th attempt for parole. He did not, in thcse days, hunt, camp, fish, watch or participate in sports, although he enjoyed watching automobile races on television. Ed Ray and Michael Marshall had saved them all. Six months after the mass abduction, Bay Area psychiatrist Lenore Terr had gone to Chowchilla to help with a noted rise in nightmares and phobias that were being experienced by the children; Terr conducted interviews with all but one of the children, also performing follow-up interviews three to four years afterward. After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole.. TruTV states that they were in their early- to mid-20s at the time of the mass abduction, which would place their approximate time of birth at around that decade, Real Criminals Referenced in Season Eight, Wikipedia's article on the mass abduction, TruTV Crime Library articles on the mass abduction, Section on the Chowchilla city website that describes the mass abduction. 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. It was a man identified from photographs as Frederick Newhall Woods who allegedly purchased, using a false name, the vans used in the kidnapping. He had a girlfriend while he was seeing me. Now that youve read about the Chowchilla kidnapping, go inside the bizarre and terribly executed kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. Then, learn about the tragic abduction of the Lindbergh baby. His parents were very much into each other. I'm sorry, he said, I'm not Ralph Snider [the false name he had registered under] I'm Frederick Woods. He'd mention the trips they'd taken to Baja, California. It was at the Woods estate, called The Hawthorries, in wealthy Portola Valley, that the authorities found a draft of the kidnapping ransom note demanding $5 million from an undesignated source. Anyone can read what you share. When Frederick Newhall Woods and two other gunmen hijacked the school bus in Chowchilla, California, it was considered the biggest kidnapping in US history. 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. Jessica O'Connor is a public historian focusing on Deep South Black History with degrees from Winston-Salem State University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Richard was 22 at the time of the kidnapping. His son, Gavin, is the current governor of California and will ultimately get to decide Woods fate when or if he is granted parole by the parole board. He is an elderly inmate, fast approaching 70, and clearly presents no danger to anyone.. On November 28, 2012, Frederick was denied parole for the thirteenth time. So, where are they now? I fully take responsibility for this heinous act. Everybodys crying. A Portola Valley fireman, who, like others who talked about Mr. Woods to reporters, asked not to be identified. During the same interview, Brown saidshe 'felt like an animal going to the slaughterhouse'. Browse 1 frederick newhall woods stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. His father. 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. 'I believe you have served enough time for the crime you committed,' Park said Friday, before adding: 'I'm concerned about the addiction you may have about money.'. He wanted to really control. While the frightened children and the bus driver were entombed for hours, the roof began to collapse from the weight of the dirt, according to court records. All three were from wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families when they kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver near Chowchilla. Over the years, there have been other troubling reports about Woods. Officials said they . And now he rescues me every day, said Marshall. He'd go out and get a job for a few months, and that would apparently appease his father. Frederick Newhall Woods was 24 years old at the time of the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping. They had panic attacks and nightmares about kidnapping and death. 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. They will mind.. 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. During the hearing, Woods provided an apology to the victims. 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Modus Operandi 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. I said we didn't come with any idea of trespassing and he said he had problems with trespassers. I tell myself I should be able to shake this off and deal with it, Ms Neal said. Unlike his younger brother, who dated a different girl every night, James did not seem active socially, the mechanic said. Richard Schoenfeld turned himself in to authorities eight days after the kidnapping; his brother was captured in Menlo Park, California, not far from the quarry; and Frederick Newhall Woods was arrested in Vancouver, Canada, after fleeing the country. The men planned to. The panels decision will now be reviewed by the California Board of Parole Hearings legal division. 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