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Families but their failed dreams of making movies and investing in real estate led them to come up with an incredibly bizarre kidnapping plan to net them 5 million in cash. this is the actual budget they put together. >> they did a lot of preparation. it so happened frederick woods his father owned a rock quarry. it wasn't unusual for them to go there use the equipment to dig into the gravel and get an old van and bury it and do all of the work that was necessary to have it there. >> but why chowchilla? >> they picked it because they won't wanted an area where it was remote and little likeliho...

They were car sick, they had to urinate on you. the smell was horrible. >> in one of the two vans the bus driver rae mainremained a fatherly figure through out the ordeal. >> i felt lucky to be with edward in the van. >> poor edward is responsible for all of these children doesn't know what's going on in their van and tries to keep us comfortable. >> for 11 gruelling hours they had been driven around in the hot cramped seatless van in an effort to disother werient them. the van finally pulled to a stop at 3:00 a.m. on friday morning. >> we didn't know where we were. we had no idea. >> where th...

>> ed ray and the school children were returned home to chowchilla in the early morning hours of saturday july 17th, 1976. >> when they got us off the bus i never seen so many people in my entire life. (applause) >> man, a couple boys decided we better start digging we were going to lose our lives there same as getting if we dug ourselves out. we all got home safe. that's my story, i guess. >> thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >> the public was outraged when they heard the story of what had happened to ray and children during the 30 hours they were missing. one question lingered if it was a ...

The back of that van. that i knew. >> their bus hidden from view ed ray and the 26 children were hustled into two hot and windowless vans and driven from the scene. the mask -- mass kidnapping that would shock the world ap put chowchilla on the map had just begun. >> when jeff and jennifer brown's mother came home at 4:30 that afternoon their house was empty her two children were nowhere to be found. >> their chairs were not in front of the tv, the peanut butter wasn't out. i called the school after an hour or so and they weren't home. nobody knew where the bus was. it sort of dispiered. >> we...

Apparent motive. >> as the news spread around the country and then around the world chowchilla soon found itself in the center of a media frenzy. >> we were immediately called by every state every government in the world asking what had happened and they were talking about zodiac killers and people from outer space. and cheddar bay biscuits then choose one of 7 entrees plus dessert! four courses, $14.99. offer ends soon. come into redster and sea food differently. to experience the lexus performance line... including the gs