A chilling tale of greed and anguish, the Chowchilla kidnapping will live forever in infamy.
On July 15, 1976, 26 children and their bus driver were abducted at gunpoint in the small town of Chowchilla, California.
The ensuing 16-hour standoff made national headlines.
The kidnappers drove the terrified children – the youngest aged just five, the eldest, 14 – and their 55-year-old school bus driver Ed Ray in two locked vans for more than 100 miles then buried them alive