He kidnapped 27 people from a school bus and helped bury them alive. Now a victim is stunned that he may soon walk free
CNN
After Fred Woods and two accomplices kidnapped dozens of California children from a school bus in 1976 and trapped them underground, they were sentenced to up to 27 life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Fast forward 46 years, and Woods is now on the brink of getting paroled.
Depending on whom you ask, that epilogue to the largest mass kidnapping in US history is either long overdue for a man full of remorse or a source of renewed trauma for victims who were buried alive.
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