Nightmare in Chowchilla
· 41 min · S1 E18 · Explicit
Episode Nightmare in Chowchilla
A school bus never makes it home. Twenty-six children and their driver disappear without a trace, sending a small California town, and the nation, into panic. On the 50th anniversary of the Chowchilla kidnapping, we revisit the crime everyone remembers... and the story almost no one knows.
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