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Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-09-30

Books mentioned on SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

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Josh Clark discussed The Day the Children Vanished by Hugh Pentecost and The Chowchilla Kidnapping: Why Me? by Larry Park.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Day the Children Vanished

    Hugh Pentecost · at 14:34

    Discussed
    “there was a mo a novel in 1958 called The Day the Children Vanished where the the gang of people abduct a busload of kids just to bring people out of town and distract them while they robbed a bank.”
    Josh Clark SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping | STUFF… 2025-09-30 Listen at 14:34
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  2. The Chowchilla Kidnapping: Why Me?

    Larry Park · at 18:19

    Discussed
    “His account was corroborated by another guy named Larry Park who wrote a book called The Chowilla School Bus Kidnapping: Why Me? And I don't know if he corroborated in that or in an interview later on, but um he was there and he said that that's true, that that's how it went down.”
    Josh Clark SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: The Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping | STUFF… 2025-09-30 Listen at 18:19
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible
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