177. Documentary Review: Chowchilla

Written By Alienist Entertainment

This week we watched and reviewed the CNN (now on MAX) documentary, Chowchilla. In the late 70's, in the farming town of Chowchilla, California, 26 children and their school bus driver were stopped in the middle of a rural road by three armed men. The men systematically kidnapped the driver and the children and sequestered them in a dark and virtually airless truck trailer and then buried them. While all of the victims survived, they have spent their lives dealing with a multitude of symptoms of trauma and we get to hear from them in this truly bizarre tale.

RESOURCES

  • Bulut, Sefa. The First Man-Made Trauma Study with Children: Terr’s Chowchilla Kidnapping Study. Clinical Research in Psychology, 2019, asclepiusopen.com/clinical-research-in-psychology/volume-2-issue-2/1.pdf. Accessed 19 Feb. 2024.

  • “Chowchilla | Rotten Tomatoes.” Www.rottentomatoes.com, 11 Jan. 2024, www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chowchilla. Accessed 12 Feb. 2024.

  • Solet, Paul, et al. “Chowchilla.” IMDb, 4 Dec. 2023, www.imdb.com/title/tt27845543/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2024.

Alienist Entertainment
Previous

178. Copycat Crimes
Next

176. Sovereign Citizens Part 2: Research & Criminality