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00:00 Chotchilla was a wonderful place to grow up.
00:04 We were little innocent children.
00:07 Never did I think that something like this could happen.
00:12 How does that school bus show up missing?
00:19 I did not want to go down there.
00:26 It was like somebody just took them up off the planet.
00:30 Was it a thrill crime?
00:32 Your guess is as good as mine.
00:34 It was a mystery. You had no answers.
00:37 They recovered a journal encrypted in unusual writing.
00:40 Never seen anything like that.
00:42 Kidnappers hit this town right in its heart by taking those children.
00:46 All the way through they thought that they had thought of everything.
00:50 I would have been very alive.
00:53 And I thought to myself, "If we're gonna die, we're gonna die getting the hell out of here."
00:57 When we got home I thought life would be okay.
01:01 The kids were not okay.
01:03 God forgive them 'cause I won't.
01:06 It was possibly the story of the century.
01:10 CHOW CHILLA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 39 ON CNN.