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Terrified hostages. the children sat driver as their school bus was commandeered. >> at what point did you get really afraid? >> they pulled the bus down into an empty flue bed. >> fox files located the actual marsh that the bus was driven into about a mile from where it had been seize. >> it was not a smooth drive down. it was through brush. >> eastbound is crying and they are telling us to shut up or we are going to get hurt. shut up. and we are waiting. what is going to happen now and they back up one van and filled that with half of the students and then bring another van to fill up the ot...

Chowchilla in the early morning hours of saturday july 17th, 1976. >> they got us off the bus i have never seen so many people in my entire life. (applause) >> me and a couple boys decided we better start digging we were going to lose our lives there or try. we got them home safe. that's my story, i guess. (applause) >> the public was outraged when they heard the story of what had happened to ray and the children during the 30 hours they were missing. but one question lingered, if it was a kidnapping why wasn't a random see manned made. the reason was simple. with the media police and fbi swar...

Terrified hostages. the children sat driver as their school bus was commandeered. >> at what point did you get really afraid? >> they pulled the bus down into an empty flue bed. >> fox files located the actual marsh that the bus was driven into about a mile from where it had been seize. >> it was not a smooth drive down. it was through brush. >> eastbound is crying and they are telling us to shut up or we are going to get hurt. shut up. and we are waiting. what is going to happen now and they back up one van and filled that with half of the students and then bring another van to fill up the ot...

Kidnappers scribbled on a jack-in-the-box bag as they pulled the kids from the vans. one-by-one, ed ray and the children were forced to climb down a ladder into a hole in the ground. >> i did not want to go into the hole. >> you are looking at what was waiting for them at the bottom of the ladder. a dark dusty styling hot moving van buried in the quarry. 14 mattresses lay in stacks. a crudely designed vent lakes system connected to two huge batteries brought in air from above ground. >> it was a hell hole. >> what did it look and smell like? >> after being driven around in vans for 11 or 12 ho...

Morning, you you know. >> the older boys and ed ray managed to get out of the kids out of the sweltering trailer. dehydrated, december oriented hungry and scared the group wandered through the darkened quarry. >> everybody was kind of walking out in the open and i remember thinking they could be anywhere we need to hide and we were all walking around and everybody is going everybody be quiet go they stumbled upon a a quarry employee who quickly called the police. word of their sudden disappearance spread like wildfire.