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The kidnappers left a ransom note at the school demanding $1,000,000 in cash or the hostages would be annihilated. That evening, the Premier of Victoria , Dick Hamer announced that the state government was prepared to pay the ransom. In the early hours the next morning the kidnappers told Mary they were going to collect the ransom and left her and the pupils locked in the van near a track in the bush. While they were gone, Mary managed to kick the door panel out with her heavy leather boots and escape with the children in the dark, finding help a few kilometres away. Eastwood and Boland were caught by police and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Mary received a George Medal for bravery. In December 1976 Eastwood escaped from prison and on 19 February 1977 he kidnapped a teacher and nine pupils from the Wooreen State School in Victoria. While driving off, he collided with a truck and held the driver and his partner hostage. He then stole a campervan from two elderly ladies taking them hostage also. Finally with sixteen hostages he demanded a $7,000,000 ransom plus guns and drugs. One of the hostages escaped and alerted police. After a shootout on the highway, Eastwood was captured and sentenced to life in prison. It is believed that Eastwood and Boland were influenced by the then recent movie Dirty Harry where a kidnapper takes a busload of school children hostage demanding a ransom. REFERENCES |
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