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Do You Dare? · August 19 · 1 hr 8 min

Case #068 - The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping

Welcome to Episode Sixty-Eight of Do You Dare? This week we are covering one of the largest mass kidnappings in US history and how it changed the way professionals treated trauma in children. (Trigger warnings: Kidnapping, Brief discussions of drug use, Discussions of the effects of trauma on children.) In this episode Em, with guest host Lauren, discuss the case of the 1976 Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping where a group of school children along with their bus driver were taken by three armed men and held in a van buried deep underground. Following along as we discussed their daring escape, how the kidnappers were caught and the knock on effects their experience had to the field of child psychology. Thanks to everyone who has joined us for this week's case and we hope to see you back next episode when Cian returns with an urban legend from 1800’s London. If you enjoyed this episode it would mean the world to us if you could take a minute to rate, review and subscribe! Don't forget you can join in the conversation with us over on social media to share your thoughts and theories. You can contact us at doyoudarepodcast@gmail.com if you want to suggest cases, tell us your personal true crime or paranormal stories to be read out in future listener episodes or just to say hi! *Ad included at the beginning of this episode is for The Creators Collective and you can find them by following the link below https://linktr.ee/CreatorsCollectivePodcasters (sources for this episode were: multiple CNN articles, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, independent.co.uk, latimes.com, cityofchowchilla.org, cbsnews.com, wikipedia)

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Welcome to Episode Sixty-Eight of Do You Dare?

 

This week we are covering one of the largest mass kidnappings in US history and how it changed the way professionals treated trauma in children.

 

(Trigger warnings: Kidnapping, Brief discussions of drug use, Discussions of the effects of trauma on children.)

 

In this episode Em, with guest host Lauren, discuss the case of the 1976 Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping where a group of school children along with their bus driver were taken by three armed men and held in a van buried deep underground.

 

Following along as we discussed their daring escape, how the kidnappers were caught and the knock on effects their experience had to the field of child psychology.

 

Thanks to everyone who has joined us for this week's case and we hope to see you back next episode when Cian returns with an urban legend from 1800’s London.

 

If you enjoyed this episode it would mean the world to us if you could take a minute to rate, review and subscribe! 

Don't forget you can join in the conversation with us over on social media to share your thoughts and theories. 

You can contact us at doyoudarepodcast@gmail.com if you want to suggest cases, tell us your personal true crime or paranormal stories to be read out in future listener episodes or just to say hi!

 

*Ad included at the beginning of this episode is for The Creators Collective and you can find them by following the link below

 

https://linktr.ee/CreatorsCollectivePodcasters

 

(sources for this episode were: multiple CNN articles, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, independent.co.uk, latimes.com, cityofchowchilla.org, cbsnews.com, wikipedia)

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