“I Want To Fit In”
“I wanted to fit in with these new people that we moved next to,” one of them said. “My dad lent me some money. I bought a Jaguar. I found out that the insurance was more than I made in a whole year, so two months later, I had to sell the Jaguar. I just figured I need money.”
“As far as I’m concerned, the brothers were duped,” said Ed Bates, Chowchilla’s sheriff. “They were just young, uneducated guys looking for a little excitement and got suckered in.” Apparently, Frederick Newhall was the brain of the whole operation.