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Accused Kidnappers Led Casual, Comfortable Lives
The Woods and Schoenfeld brothers, siblings from Portola Valley and Atherton, led affluent, low-profile lives before a 1974 auto tampering case tied them to a later kidnap inquiry. Frederick Newhall Woods Jr, James and Richard Schoenfeld grew up near Stanford and Chowchilla, collecting junked cars and trading on family wealth.
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Sid Moody
AP Newsfeatures
San Francisco
Sierra
Sierra County
Union
Downieville
Richard Campbell
Portola Valley
Stanford University
Frederick Newhall Woods
James
Richard Schoenfeld
Gentry
Atherton
Woodside
Woods
Richard
Fred Woods
Jim Schoenfeld
San Joaquin Valley
Chowchilla
Newhall Land and Farming Co
Fred
Bob Davidson
Hawthornes