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He saw some mattresses and box springs, two wooden boxes with holes on top that served as improvised toilets, ten five-gallon containers of water, some dry breakfast food, bags of potato chips, two loaves of bread, and six 4×4 vertical posts that extended eight feet from floor to ceiling. Using a flashlight given to him to guide the children in, Ray could see that they were inside the trailer of a truck about eight feet wide and sixteen feet long, buried underground. As they went in, one by one, a man asked for their names, ages, parent’s names, and took from each a shoe or an article of clothing. They told Ray and the children to get out and directed them to descend a ladder through a three-foot opening in the ground into an underground chamber. After eleven hours on the road, they finally stopped at their destination. Several times along the way, the abductors stopped to put more fuel in the gas tanks from gas cans stowed onboard. Those who needed to urinate had to do so in their pants.
They sped along highways for many hours, never stopping at a gas station.
Neither Ray nor the children could see where they were going – plywood and a coat of paint blocked the windows.
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As Ray climbed in through the back doors of the green van, he glanced at the license plate number of the white van.Īerial view of the bamboo grove where kidnappers abandoned the school bus. After hiding the bus in a heavy thicket of bamboo, the three men herded their captives into the white van and into a green van parked nearby. His stocky appearance was deceptive, for up close one boy observed that he had “a pillow stuffed in his shirt to make him look fat.” He settled into the driver’s seat and took control of the wheel.Ĭontinuing west about a mile, the bus and van turned left into a clearing off the road and drove into a dry creek bed. He had sideburns, a one-inch scar on his right cheek, and a chipped front tooth. His age might have been anywhere from 28 to 45. Over his mask, he wore black, thick-framed glasses. The third man was unarmed, stocky, 5 foot 6, white hat, white gloves, blue-checkered shirt, brown pants, and blue tennis shoes. He came into the bus and ordered Ray to go to the back seat.
He spoke with a foreign accent, possibly French. He had a blue-green tattoo on his right wrist. He wore a white T-shirt, white gloves, blue corduroy pants, cowboy boots, and silver watch. One of them was armed with a pump shotgun, about 23 to 27 years old, very thin, 5 foot 7, collar length brown hair, light complexion, moustache, and a hairy mole on the right side of his chin. Two more men wearing stocking masks came out of the van. Grayish white hair and moustache were discernible through the nylon. He was a big man, 6 foot 2, medium to heavy build, tan short-sleeve shirt, white gloves, light tan corduroy pants, light brown belt with horsehead buckle, cowboy boots, and an eagle tattoo on his right arm.
He signaled Ray to stop the bus and in a deep voice demanded that he open the door. As he came around to pass, he saw jumping out of the van a man wearing a nylon stocking mask and brandishing a shotgun and revolver. Proceeding west on Avenue 21 toward the intersection at Road 15, he noticed a white van straddling the road with its door open. Traveling on ruler-straight roads past cotton fields and almond groves, the driver, Frank Ray, dropped off five youngsters at three separate stops. The afternoon of July 15, the last day of summer school at Dairyland Elementary in the farming community of Chowchilla, a school bus departed with thirty-one children, ages ranging from five to fourteen. It also prompted Mae Brussell to reveal on her weekly program Dialogue: Conspiracy the existence of a letter that identified the Zodiac by his real name.
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In a letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle on October 13, 1969, he wrote, “School children make nice targets, I think I shall wipe out a school bus some morning.” A letter sent to the same newspaper on Jthreatened that if people did not start wearing Zodiac buttons, he would punish them “by anilating a full School Buss.” The disappearance of a school bus full of children in 1976 prompted many to believe that this was the work of the Zodiac. Using many deliberately misspelled words, he made mocking jabs at the police, laughed at their futile efforts to catch him, and described in detail how he would dispatch future victims.
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Zodiac, a serial killer in the San Francisco Bay area, wrote a series of letters to local newspapers boasting of his murders and appending sophisticated cryptograms that defied the best efforts of amateur and professional codebreakers.
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