How does a school bus carrying 26 children just disappear? CNN Films presents the most unbelievable crime story you haven’t heard. Prepare to dive into one of the strangest mass kidnappings in history.
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00:01 >> Chotchilla was a wonderful place to grow up.
00:03 >> We were little innocent children.
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00:08 >> Never did I think that something like this could happen.
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00:16 >> How does that school bus show up missing?
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00:20 >> I did not want to go down there.
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00:27 >> It was like somebody just took him up off the planet.
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00:31 >> Was it a thrill crime?
00:32 >> Your guess is as good as mine.
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00:35 >> 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 >> The kidnappers hit this town right in its heart by taking those children.
00:47 >> All the way through, they thought that they had thought of everything.
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00:51 >> I would have been buried alive.
00:53 >> And I thought to myself, we're gonna die, we're gonna die getting the hell out of here.
00:58 >> When we got home, I thought life would be okay.
01:01 >> The kids were not okay.
01:03 >> God forgive them cuz I won't.
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01:08 >> It was possibly the story of the century.
01:10 >> Chotchilla.
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