Frederick Woods was paroled after serving more than four decades in prison for what one prosecutor called “the largest mass kidnapping in U.S. history”
It’s not been enough time for Jennifer Brown Hyde, a fellow victim of the 1976 kidnapping that started near Chowchilla, Calif., to escape the “lifetime effects of being buried alive and being driven around in a van for 11 hours with no food, water or a bathroom in 100-degree weather,” the Associated Press reported.
His attorney, Dominique Banos, did not immediately respond to The Washington Post late Thursday, but on Wednesday, she told the AP that the parole board realized her client had “shown a change in character for the good” and “remains a low risk, and once released from prison he poses no danger or threat to the community.” The AP reported that at least two of Woods’s victims supported his release.
At 3:30 a.m., they arrived at a quarry in Livermore, a city on the eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay area about 90 miles northwest of Chowchilla. Woods and the Schoenfelds left the quarry, which was owned by Woods’s father. They tried to call in a $5 million ransom demand to the Chowchilla Police Department but got a busy signal. After taking a snooze, they awoke to learn that Ray and the children had escaped.
Investigators learned that the quarry was owned by Woods’s father and were soon hunting for him and the Schoenfelds. Within weeks, they’d arrest all three.
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