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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2023 · 49 MIN

178: Greed - The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping

from Seven Deadly Sinners · host Rachael O'Brien

In the summer of 1976 in a small cattle town in northern California, a school bus full of 26 children - disappeared. When the parents started realizing their kids hadn't made it home from summer school - the entire town quickly jumped into action and within hours the bus was discovered by a farmer flying over a dry riverbed in his crop duster.... the only problem - it was empty...

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