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Singing. we were singing "my momma told you, you better shop around." that is the song we were singing whistling at the happened. >> it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the because on to avenue 21 where a white van with its door ajar was parked near the center of the road. >> it looked like somebody had broken down and so edward went to swing the bus around the van. >> and at that point one of the kidnappers jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle, came up to the driver's side and told edward to open the door. and then the other kidnapper got on to the bus and took over. >> a...

All of the kids were singing. my mama told me you better shop around. that was the song we were singing when it happened. >> it was a little after 4:00 p.m. when ray turned the bus on to avenue 21 where a white van with the door ajar was parked near the center of the road. >> it looked like somebody had broken down. edward went to swing the bus around the van and at that .1 of the kidnapers jumped out of the passenger side with a rifle came up to the driver's side and told edward to open the door. the other kidnaper got on to the bus and took over. >> i do remember seeing one of the kidnapers ...

Roof started collapsing. and that is the point that we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan that if we are going to die, we are going to die trying. >> we said we got to get out or we are going to die. >> they piled mattresses up to get high enough up to the opening that they had left us and tried to move whatever was blocking the hole that they had put us in. and later we found out that they had put a steel plate on top of the hole and had put some semi batteries on top of that. and then they had built a wooden box and covered it with...

Roof started collapsing. and that is the point that we knew we were going to have to do something. >> the older kids and ed ray came up with this plan that if we are going to die, we are going to die trying. >> we said we got to get out or we are going to die. >> they piled mattresses up to get high enough up to the opening that they had left us and tried t move whatever was blocking the hole that they had put us in. and later we found out that they had put a steel plate on top of the hole and had put some semi batteries on top of that. and then they had built a wooden box and covered it with ...

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...