The men planned to. We would have suffocated to death in there, Labendeira said. Of course, we all sympathize with the victims who suffered. The older brother, James, was generally described as less outgoing but not unfriendly. When Frederick Newhall Woods and two other gunmen hijacked. So he and 14-year-old Michael Marshall got to work. He was always swaggering, she said. The state prison spokesman, Luis Patino, said, As such, CDCR does not have any legal option other than to release inmate Schoenfeld and will do so. Richard, like his fellow kidnappers, was also incarcerated at San Luis Obispo. Ive had a character change since then. According to James, they initially weren't serious about actually committing such a crime, but as time passed by, they began to consider it. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and he had everything, and saved everything, said his former wife, 24yearold Songel Padgett, whose oneyear marriage to Mr. Woods ended in divorce in early 1972. The Schoenfeld brothers surrendered to authorities in California after several days in hiding. Once the trial ended, Chowchilla fell out of the media spotlight, save for the visit by reporters on the anniversary of the mass abduction. 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. Frederick Newhall Woods III, a member of one of California's wealthiest and most prominent families, rented the San Jose warehouse where the two vans were found. When police finally caught up with the perpetrators, they were stunned. 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. Marshall cautiously stuck his head out of the dirt to make sure their abductors werent nearby, then he and Ray helped the other 25 children out of the truck. Natasha Anderson For Dailymail.Com, Last kidnapper who hijacked school bus and kept 26 kids 'buried alive' in underground bunker could soon be set free, Man, 70, who masterminded hijacking school bus full of children for $5 million ransom in 1976 after being inspired by 'Dirty Harry' will be paroled: Kids and driver were buried in ventilated underground bunker and dug themselves out. Nevertheless, the three were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, although the prevention of parole was later overturned in 1981. They hid the bus in the Berenda Slough, where a second van had been stashed. No. Frederick Newhall Woods did not have the same success with the parole board. Frederick Newhall Woods was born 24 years ago, the son of Harriet Wright and Frederick Nickerson Woods 3d. Frederick Newhall Woods was found suitable for parole at a hearing Friday,California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson Joe Orlando confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. He's demonstrated the capacity to do this kind of a crimeto mastermind and carry out something like this. While behind bars, he continues to run his businesses and grows richer by the day. The marriage ended abruptly in early 1972, when Songel simply told her husband that she was leaving him. 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. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. It was back in July 1976, when three young men from. I think I only saw a few pictures of him and his parents together in the family pictures. Email us atexclusive@the-sun.comor call212 416 4552. He also had other guns she said. He was 57 at the time. However, Newhall has kept applying for parole 17 times, and his most recent rejection came in October 2019. 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. Woods, Wealthy Kidnap Suspect, Described as a Loner and a Loser, https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/26/archives/woods-wealthy-kidnap-suspect-described-as-a-loner-and-a-loser.html. 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. United States. At some point in their early lives, Richard and James became acquainted with Frederick, working on cars and talking about movies with another friend. During Friday's hearing, Woods apologized for his actions, telling the parole panel that he 'had empathy for the victims which I didn't have then. 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. 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. Two survivors, Larry Park and Rebecca Reynolds Dailey, spoke Friday in favor of Woods's parole. Their miraculous escape made national headlines, but their abductors were still on the loose. And they dont fight back. He dug until he was exhausted, and then he kept on digging. my friends, by the house, and if we had anyone that he invited it was always his family or relative, no one else.. Despite this,Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno still argued against Woods' release. One of the three boarded the bus, masked, armed with a shotgun, and carrying nylon stocking, boarded the bus when Ray opened the door, having already noticed his items and hoping to engage in a peaceful negotiation. Frederick Newhall Woods was 24 years old at the time of the 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping. One of them took over the wheel while the other held Ray at gunpoint. An appeals court ordered Richard Schoenfeld released in 2012, and former Gov. 27 abducted 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. Now Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the "mastermind" of the trio, could be paroled next month and walk out of state prison as a multimillionaire. Many of the children continued to report symptoms of trauma for at least twenty-five years after the hijacking, including substance abuse and depression. Gavin Newsom has 30 days to review the decision and wither allow it to stand or refer it to the full Board of Parole Hearings for a review. Other family photographs, she said, seemed to reflect what she felt was some isolation. Regarding their married life. It was a man identified from photographs as Frederick Newhall Woods who allegedly purchased, using a false name, the vans used in the kidnapping. After nearly 40 years, James gained his freedom in April at the age of 63, after twenty parole hearings. 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. Frederick Newhall Woods was found suitable for parole at a hearing Friday at California Men's Colony, a state prison in San Luis Obispo County. 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. His parents often . 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. Park remembered Marshalls determination at that moment. Ed Ray and the children escaped from the buried moving truck after 16 hours. His father was expecting a lot from Woods which all the fathers in the world somehow expect from their children. He had a girlfriend while he was seeing me. I was 24 years old, he said. On July 15, 1976, Frederick, Richard, and James put their scheme into motion. Once they found themselves above ground, Ray and the children walked to the quarry's guard station near the Shadow Cliffs East Bay National Park where authorities were called. Frederick Newhall Woods IVRichard SchoenfeldJames Schoenfeld But man, you're in the weird people capital of the world, so I didn't think much.. Yet here I am, a mess.'. Alias 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. Now, after nearly a half-century behind bars, he is on the brink of freedom. In 1976, Frederick Newhall Woods IV and brothers James and Richard Schoenfeld kidnapped a. 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. By the time I was 21, I was using meth. His parents were very much into each other. During the same interview, Brown saidshe 'felt like an animal going to the slaughterhouse'. The escape took place before the kidnappers had even been able to call in their ransom demands. 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. In contrast to the comments of others, the mechanic said he found Fred Woods easy enough to get along with.. Woods also married three times while in prison. Frederick Newhall Woods IV and Richard and James Schoenfeld were soon behind bars for what had become known nationwide as the Chowchilla kidnapping. Frederick Newhall Woods IV and Richard and James Schoenfeld were soon . There, they were transferred to a buried moving truck, with mattresses and a little bit of food. 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. He did not, in thcse days, hunt, camp, fish, watch or participate in sports, although he enjoyed watching automobile races on television. Ray and Michael Marshall, aged 14 at the time, managed to find an escape for the group, which finally led to the apprehension of the three kidnappers, Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the quarry owners son, and his two friends, James, and Richard Schoenfeld. His mother took a lot of home movies of us.. Chowchilla bus kidnapper Fred Woods, 70, has been approved for parole - CNN. Birth Date After the children managed to free themselves, the kidnappers fled. In 1976, Frederick Newhall Woods IV and brothers James and Richard Schoenfeld kidnapped a school bus driver and 26 children, then buried them alive in a moving van trailer in a quarry. 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.. 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. He'd buy a shirt he didn't need.. It is possible that the money has helped finance some of Woods prison activities. 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. 'I tell myself I should be able to shake this off and deal with it. 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After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole.. At the same time he lavished large sums on things he felt were exclusively his own, principally old automobiles and trucks, from vintage to junkers. Once retired, William Newsom advocated for their release in 2011, noting that no one was seriously physically injured during the kidnapping. Over the course of her studies, she noted that numerous traits and facts about the children, including that a majority of the children, upon recollection, did not name the time they spent in the vans or the hours they spent being buried underground as the worst of their experiences; they also remembered that the highest degree of terror occurred at any time whenever their location was changed: from the school bus and into the small vans, from those vans and into the hole at the top of the buried van, and even from their placement onto the buses taking them home after their ordeal ended. But when they woke up and turned on the news, they saw that the children had already escaped. He just seemed the normal kind of guy, the former classmate said. We had no reason to expect to see them again. It was not that he couldn't keep a job, as much as he didn't want to work, the former girl friend said. A van reportedly blocked the road ahead of the bus, with three armed men jumping out and confronting the driver. And what was characteristic of him was that smile, sort of a smirk. They were each given 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. He said that he had called on Mr. Woods at the estate several months ago to inquire about the fire engines, one or more of which the firemen and some friends hoped to buy and restore for use by their club. Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. After 17 unsuccessful attempts, a California man who kidnapped 26 children on a school bus in 1976 has been recommended for parole. Richard Schoenfeld was paroled in 2012, and James Schoenfeld was released in 2015. The three eventually formulated a scheme to hijack a school bus, hide all of the passengers somewhere safe, demand a $5 million ransom from the state of California, retrieve the money, and then release the hostages unharmed, all within twenty-four hours. On the morning of July 17, they learned that their hostages had escaped the buried van. Mr. Woods also met Songel Nichols, who was to become his wife. Frantic parents, school officials and police . However, according to CBS News, their families appealed the conviction and in 1980, a panel of judges ruled that the kidnappers would eventually be eligible for parole instead of spending life in prison without said eligibility. The three men pleaded guilty to kidnapping in July 1977 and received life in prison. We were friends, but we didn't hang around together. Less than a week later, Frederick Woods was captured in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and James Schoenfeld was captured in Menlo Park, California. 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. Yet here I am, a mess.. But Woods and his attorney, Dominique Banos, emphasized that he had a discipline-free record since his last parole hearing in October 2019. On July 15, 1976, three men captured a school bus in Chowchilla, California, kidnapping 26 children aged five to 14 and their driver. . On Friday, March 25, 2022, Woods read aloud an apology at his parole hearing. 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. Others knew him casually, for he had few close friends and among the casual acquaintances were schoolmates, neighbors, the young mechanic who helped him restore the old cars he sold as a business venture, some relatives and some family friends. We enjoyed ourselves, she said. When Frederick Newhall Woods and two other gunmen hijacked the school bus in Chowchilla, California, it was considered the biggest kidnapping in US history. 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. 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. Frederick Newhall Woods was approved for parole on Friday, a spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has confirmed Woods, 70, is one of three men. Another survivor, Darla Neal, told CNN in 2015 that she deals with crippling anxiety to the point that she had to leave work. she said. Woods masterminded the kidnapping plot after being inspired by the 1971 Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry. Park told CBS' 48 Hours in 2019 that he sat in the darkness 'wondering how it was going to feel to die'. Modus Operandi To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. We would not have lived much longer. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. The panels decision will now be reviewed by the California Board of Parole Hearings legal division. Over the years, there have been other troubling reports about Woods. Ive had empathy for the victims, which I didnt have then. Woods said. 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 was among three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of California children for an attempted $5 million ransom in 1976. . Like his accomplices, he received 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole. But as of the 48 Hours episode, Park is nine years sober and volunteers as a pastor at a local church. They pleaded guilty, were fined $125 each and placed on a year's probation. He was wealthy and lavished money on the things he wanted, his possessions, but stingy in all else. Newsom cannot block the parole decision because it's not a murder conviction. The third followed in the truck. He said he was afraid people would make fun of him., One other incident struck his former wife as unusual. The kidnappers then drove the two vans around for 11 hours, finally stopping at a quarry 100 miles away in the town of Livermore. 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. I was smoking crack. The young man constantly sought to please his father, she said, but always felt inadequate. Thankfully, all the children and their bus driver returned home 36 hours after they were abducted, safe but traumatized. He just said she just left him, no discussion, no nothing.. His father. Police executed a search warrant on the 100-acre family estate in Portola. Frederick Newhall Woods first became eligible for parole in 1982 and has had 18 parole hearings since. We've received your submission. While underground, Ray and one of the elder students were able to dig their way out of the truck. 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. pauline hanson dancing with the stars; just jerk dance members; what happens if a teacher gets a dui If we had anyone at our house that he invited, it was always his family or relatives, she said. During the hearing, Woods provided an apology to the victims. There was no quit in him.. I fully take responsibility for this heinous act.. On the evening of July 17, Frederick managed to enter Canada and settled himself in a Vancouver hotel. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE BY OTHERS OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DISCLOSE IN CHAT ROOMS, FORUMS, BLOGS, AND OTHER Following the kidnapping, Woods and his co-conspirators - Richard and James Schoenfeld - each pleaded guilty. 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. Additionally, several of the survivors have alleged they suffered from anxiety and nightmares as a result of the incident. XD;Frederick Newhall Woods accused of kidnapping and robbery in the abduction of 26 Chowchilla area youngsters and their bus driver. And just scared out of their you know, we were all just scared out of our wits, Marshall told CBS News, adding, It would be silent and then somebody would bust out crying and the hole would just erupt. He was also the owner of the rock quarry. He'd mention the trips they'd taken to Baja, California. But there were no children, and that set the stage in part for the young couple's breakup. He too served time at the same facility as Newhall and Richard. I was 24 years old. Woods will next be eligible for parole in 2024. Hes incarcerated at the California Mens Colony in San Luis Obispo. Ray and the children, who were then ages 5 to 14, were eventually able to claw their way out of the trailer 28 hours later and ran to nearby workers, who called police. Stopping their white van in the middle of the lonely, rural Avenue 21 in Chowchilla, California, under the pretense that it had broken down, they waited until a school bus they set their sights on, which was driven by 55-year-old Frank Edward "Ed" Ray, stopped to investigate. Frederick Newhall Woods IV, James Schoenfeld, and Richard Schoenfeld planned the Chowchilla kidnapping for over a year. Scrawled above it are the words, Our first baby. A copper penny is taped to a page, date 1971, and the inscription reads our lucky penny., On a final page is a snapshot of a puppy. 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. I think he was not hostileyou really couldn't put it as hostile, the youth said. Ray and Michael Marshall, aged 14 at the time, managed to find an escape for the group, which finally led to the apprehension of the three kidnappers, Frederick Newhall Woods IV, the quarry owner's son, and his two friends, James, and Richard Schoenfeld. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. The kidnappers forced the children and Ray into vans, according to court records. CBS Fred Woods and James and Richard Schoenfeld, the men who kidnapped 26 children in 1976. They will mind.. Inspiring the frightened cohort into action, under the instructions of Ray the group stacked the mattresses inside the truck on top of one another and used wooden slats to dislodge a steel plate on the roof of the van that was covering the hatch through which they'd entered. 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. Where is Frederick Newhall Woods Now? The captives were held in a box truck and buried alive in a quarry located in Livermore. No record of such an incident could be found in the records of appropriate police or medical officials, and a check of newspapers disclosed nothing involving Mr. Woods. So, where are they now? Frederick Newhall Woods hijacked a school bus full of 26 children at gunpoint, kidnapped them, and then attempted to murder . He and two others hijack a school bus with 26 children and a driver in 1976 in Chauchilla. If he did a good job, he'd brag about it to his father, but when he lost his job as a salesman (at a paint store in Palo Alto) he didn't want to tell his father, or me.. He dug until he was exhausted and then he kept on digging. We went [on dates] over there, to the estate, and most of the time it was chores, feeding horses, moving cars.. Scuba Certification; Private Scuba Lessons; Scuba Refresher for Certified Divers; Try Scuba Diving; Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) 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.. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. One of the perpetrators, Frederick Newhall Woods, was approved for parole in March of 2022. Richard was 22 at the time of the kidnapping. His accomplices, brothers Richard and James Schoenfeld, were freed years ago. 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. "Now I fully understand the terror and trauma I caused. Our childhood was completely turned upside down., Many of the children went on to suffer from depression and substance abuse. A grammar school classmate said that he was a little different, shy, awkwardpeople made fun of him.. Psychiatrist Lenore Terr told CBS News, There are a number of these kids who have gone to prison for doing something controlling to somebody else., As Heffington-Medrano explained, The emotional scars that they put on all of us, theyre countless.. A number of them have even spent time in prison for "doing something controlling to somebody else". 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. He said it was really beautiful, and you could really be out there solitary, I mean, alone. Their marriage, in the Calvary Baptist Church in Redwood City, was unpretentious and the wedding album portrays nothing except a normal American couple. They had been in the hole for nearly 16 hours, completely terrified. He cannot unilaterally reverse the parole decision, because Woods was not convicted of murder. When the boy climbed through the hole and alerted that there was no one present, Ray helped the rest of the children out of the van before climbing out himself. He immediately forced Ray to get up from his seat and moved him to the back of the bus while the other two jumped out of their van and boarded the bus as well, taking control of the schoolchildren riding inside. James was the second one to get paroled in 2015. 'The sides of the van were bowing in I knew that I was going to die. However, 36 years later, in 2012, Richard was the first of the trio to be granted parole. 'Even the settlement paid to some of us survivors was not sufficient. 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