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How Mountain View's oldest house became a motive for the 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping

Original post made on Jan 8, 2024

Most people who have ventured into Shoreline Park have seen the Rengstorff House. Years before the mansion became Mountain View's history museum, it was part of the motive behind one of the country's largest mass kidnappings.

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Posted by Steven Nelson
a resident of Cuesta Park
on Jan 8, 2024 at 8:19 pm
Steven Nelson is a registered user.

Wonderfull local history story!

and I never knew that / even after visiting the house and living in MV 30+ years

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