CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN LUIS OBISPO : Chowchilla Convict Denied Parole Again
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
James Schoenfeld, one of three men who kidnaped a busload of Chowchilla schoolchildren in 1976, was denied parole for the sixth time. Schoenfeld, now 38, his brother, Richard, 35, and Fred Woods, 37, all received life sentences for abducting 26 students and their driver and imprisoning them in a buried moving van in an unsuccessful attempt to collect a $5-million ransom.
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