Three people convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children in California in 1976 and demanding a ransom of $5 million Last one of the men. history” is published by state parole boards.
Governor Gavin Newsom said on Tuesday after a previous commission denied him parole 17 times in March after two commissioners recommended his release. He asked the board to reconsider its decision to parole 70-year-old Frederick Woods. However, the Board of Directors confirmed its decision.
Woods and his two accomplices, brothers Richard and James Schoenfeld,hail from wealthy families in the San Francisco Bay Areaand live approximately 125 miles (201 kilometers). ) kidnapped 26 children and a bus driver near remote Chowchilla. ) southeast of San Francisco.
Three children from his 5-year-old to his 14-year-old with a bus driver east of San Francisco with little ventilation, lighting, water, food and bathroom fixtures. Buried in an old moving van. The victim was able to dig his way out more than a day later.
Newsom said that Woods "continued to be involved in financial-related misconduct in prison," and was found guilty of contraband. Using his mobile phone, he advised on running a Christmas tree farm, a gold mining operation, and a car dealership. Because the governor had not been convicted of murder, the governor could not prevent Woods' release and could only urge the parole board to take a closer look.
"He continues to show that he is working for the cause," said Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno, who opposed his parole.
Moreno said he was angry and annoyed after the ruling "because justice was mocked in Madera County" and said he feared the state of society. After he committed that crime and spent time in prison ignoring the law, he is alive and still out of prison.
Woods was ineligible to attend in person on Tuesday.However, at his parole hearing in March, he felt he needed money to be accepted by his parents, saying, "I was selfish at the time."
"I didn't need the money. I didn't want the money." I wanted it,' Woods said of the ransom demand.
His attorney, Dominic Banos, said Wednesday that the parole board found that Woods "demonstrated a change of character for the good." Recognizing, "The risk remains low and upon his release from prison he poses no danger or threat to the community."
The three former inmates who served time with Woods Despite urging parole officers to release him, the four victims or their relatives said Woods' misconduct in prison showed that he still considered himself a privileged figure. Stated.
Her then 10-year-old Lynda Carrejo Labendeira fled as flashlights and candles flickered by children while "coffins collapsed like makeshift dungeons." I remember how I struggled.
"You can't choose random flashbacks every time you see a van like the one we were transported to," she told the board. "I'm not sleeping so that I don't have to have nightmares at all," she said.
Jennifer Brown Hyde, who was nine years old at the time, recalled: ''
''His heart is still evil and he wants to get what he wants. I want them to comply," she told the board. to his sense of entitlement.
She said Wednesday that although her family is disappointed, "it's time to close this chapter and continue living the blessed life that has been given to me."
The Court of Appeals ordered the release of Richard Schoenfeld in 2012, and then-Governor Jerry Brown ordered the release in 2015. James Schoenfeld was released on parole in 1945.
He was only 24 years old when he committed the crime and is now older. also said they were taking steps to improve themselves in prison. , commuted the men's life sentences and gave them the opportunity to parole. After he retired, he sought their release in 2011.
