26 kids were buried alive in Northern California. A new documentary shows how one plotted their escape – and what happened years later
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry and forced them into what could have become a mass grave. Almost 50 years on, those students have become unwitting pioneers in what child trauma can look like decades later