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Gone in a Blink: The Largest Kidnapping in History Recap True Crime Recaps

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It was a warm summer afternoon when the unthinkable happened. 26 children and their driver were forced off their school bus at gunpoint and buried alive for 16 hours before they managed to escape. The Chowchilla bus kidnapping in 1976 is the biggest, most brazen, mass abduction in American history. Who would do such a horrific thing? And why did they choose these particular victims? The answers to those questions will disgust you. 


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It was a warm summer afternoon when the unthinkable happened. 26 children and their driver were forced off their school bus at gunpoint and buried alive for 16 hours before they managed to escape. The Chowchilla bus kidnapping in 1976 is the biggest, most brazen, mass abduction in American history. Who would do such a horrific thing? And why did they choose these particular victims? The answers to those questions will disgust you. 


Get all the crime in half the time! Watch True Crime Recaps on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube or Snapchat! Follow us on Instagram and Twitter. New episodes weekly!

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