What happened to the real life kidnappers?

Well first, thanks for posting their names. I looked into this a while back and didn't turn up much because I was going by the trivia page here which says the gang of John Francis Eastway did the crime. Nothing comes up Googling that name. Boland and Eastwood are getting hits, but the info is still spotty. I managed to put a timeline together from a few various sources:

Oct 5, 1972 - Melbourne plasterers Robert Boland and Edwin Eastwood kidnap teacher Mary Gibbs, 19, and six young female pupils from a country primary school at Faraday State School near Castlemaine, Victoria. They hold them captive overnight in the back of a baker's van and demand $1 million ransom from the state government.

Oct 6, 1972 - The kidnappers leave their hostages in the early hours of the morning to meet the Victorian Education Minister, Mr Thompson, who has volunteered to deliver the ransom money. While the kidnappers are away, just before sunrise, teacher Mary Gibbs kicks out a metal panel from the back of the van and escapes with her six young pupils, leading them through the bush to safety. They are found near Lancefield by rabbit shooters at about 7:30am and taken to the local police station.

Oct 9, 1972 - The Faraday school kidnappers are captured.

Oct 10, 1972 - Boland and Eastwood appear in a Melbourne court charged with the kidnapping of Mary Gibbs and her pupils. They were later given 15 years in jail.

Feb 14, 1977 - Edwin Eastwood, was on this date gaoled for the Faraday kidnapping, escaped and kidnapped a teacher and nine children from a school at Wooreen. He was arrested after a high-speed chase with his hostages inside a van.

Lindsay Thompson, Premier of Victoria from 1981 to 1982, tells of the harrowing hours when, while Deputy Premier, he was personally involved in recapturing a convicted kidnapper holding nine children and a teacher captive. In 1977 Edwin Eastwood, who was serving a sentence for the 1972 Faraday School Kidnapping, escaped from the Geelong Goal.

I received a call from the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mick Miller. There was a note, in the teacher’s handwriting, pinned to the door of a one teacher school in Gippsland. “Have gone on a nature study trip. Back in one hour.”

As the afternoon and evening wore on it became obvious that the teacher and children would not be back. The following morning it was confirmed that the teacher and nine children had been kidnapped. Furthermore, an additional four men were missing, believed captured by Eastwood after their trucks were involved in an accident with the stolen car Eastwood had been driving.

As Mick Miller and I were travelling to the scene of the accident I well remember discussing with him the possibility of offering myself in exchange for the release of the children and teacher. As it turned out, it was not necessary but it was certainly a defining moment for me and one that I would gladly have initiated if it could have rescued the captives.

We received a message that one of the drivers of the timbertrucks had broken free of Eastwood. We learnt from him that not only had Eastwood captured the four men in the timber trucks at gunpoint, but also two women in a combi van. The ir van had been used by Eastwood to take his captives to a bush camp 60 kilometres from the school. Here the children had been chained together and the men chained to trees.

Soon after learning these details, we heard that the stolen combi van had left the camp at high speed and had broken through two roadblocks. A third police blockade proved more effective and Eastwood was finally captured. We discovered a letter he had sent to me in which he threatened to kill the “hostages” unless his demands were met.

As I stood near Eastwood after his capture, he looked straight at me and said “No goal in this State will hold me. I’ll escape and do it again. Don’t worry, next time I’ll make sure it succeeds”.

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