Frederick Newhall Woods was found suitable for parole at a hearing in March and on Wednesday, the decision to release the 70-year-old was finalized after a 120-day time frame had expired. Woods is one of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children and holding them and their driver for $5 million ransom in 1976. Parole commissioners decided Woods no longer is a danger to the public. The convicted kidnapper became eligible for parole in 1982 but was previously denied release 17 times. His accomplices, brothers Richard and James Schoenfeld, were respectively freed in 2012 and 2015. ‘His mind is still evil!’ Victims blast decision to free wealthy California kidnapper who buried 26 schoolchildren and driver alive in 1976 for $5million ransom after being inspired by Dirty Harry