Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!It was the end of another ordinary day at elementary school for a bus full of children on a July day in 1976.
But they soon became victims in the largest kidnapping in the history of the United States. At around 4pm on July 15, a school bus with 26 children was hijacked by three armed gunmen, wearing pantyhose over their faces, as they headed home from the Dairyland Elementary School in Chowchilla, California.
The children and their school bus driver were transferred to vans and were driven for nearly 12 torturous hours before being buried alive inside a truck trailer underground.Inside the vans, the kidnappers had constructed makeshift jail cells by installing wood panelling and even.
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