Schoenfeld, his brother Richard and their friend Fred Woods - who were all from wealthy families in the San Francisco Bay Area - were convicted in 1976.
The men spent 18 months hatching the plot and planned to demand a $5m ransom for the return of the children, who ranged between five and 14 years old.
The hostages were taken from Chowchilla as they returned from a swimming trip and driven to a quarry near Livermore, where they were kept inside a partially-buried ventilated trailer filled with mattresses, food and water .... http://news.sky.com
