The 1976 Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping That People Remember To This Day
Making the Arrest
The arrest warrants were immediately issued. Richard Schoenfeld had immediately turned himself in while Fred and James decided to run away. Fortunately, they couldn’t go far as the cops captured them by dawn the next day. Soon after, the men were placed in a police lineup where the kids had identified their voices when they were asked to repeat the threats they made to the children. But the question now is: what drove these wealthy men to commit such crime? And this was when the answers became clearer.