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Outpouring of light like from heaven above. >> it was like christmas 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.

Farmer and part-time bus driver. 55-year-old ed ray. >> ed ray was the most wonderful bus driver that you could have. >> irene and lin caucuse lindar sisters were also onboard the school bus that hot dry july afternoon when temperatures can reach 110 degrees. >> i was 12 and a half. linda, julie and stella our youngest she was is in kindergarten. fivion almost six at the time. >> this is the actual school bus the children were riding in that summer day more than 35 years ago. jody heavington showed her son matthew where she sat on that fateful day. >> i was sitting about right here, matthew. >...

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...

Separate vans. to that point i didn't know what happened to him or the other children. >> there was wuter crackers and cereal may have been bread. >> this was a diagram from the alameda county sheriff's office that illustrates the layout of the trailer. the only source of light was the flashlight the kidnapers gave to ed ray. he used the light but ed ray told us we needed to try to get some sleep. so the flashlight was turned off. we all laid down and i know i slept. >> what kind of monsters who kidnap 26 school children and their bus driver and bury them alive and why did they do it? >> 24-ye...

And kept kicking it and kicking it. and it ended up sliding and the 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 t...