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Greenlease Kidnapping — Part 1

77 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Kidnapping & Ransom · Topic: Greenlease Kidnapping · 76 pages OCR'd
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FEDE ©", | a) f a, aes sr bo . Loe ™ , _ Por No. ft THE CASE ORMEINATED AT KANSAS CITY no. a CARL AUSTIN HALL, was., Joho James Byrpes, Stave KIDNAPING Strand, Hebert White, John Grant, John Hager, | EXTORTION R. Grant; BONNIE EMILY!HEADY, nee Bonnie Emily was., Mrs. Vernon Ellis Heady, Esther Grant, E.4 ROBER? COSGROVE GREENLEASE, Jr, = VICT™M ~ . oF Synspsis of Facts: 7 ~~. CARL AUSTIN HALL and BONNIE EMILY HEADY apprehended by | “Et St. Lovis Police Department, 10-6-53 and 10-7-53 respectively. ~ Wher questioned by St. Louis Police Department re possession of large amount of money, HALL admitted kidnaping victim. \ 4,’ 2 . Authorized complaint filed against subjects before U. S. } -~™ | Comuissicner CHARLES H. THOMPSON at Kansas City, Mo. 10-7-63, { » o, charging them with violation of Section 876, Title 18, . e. U.S. Code, Subjects released, along with $295,140.00 of a ransom money recovered by St, Louis Police Department, to. a Bureau custedy 10=-7-53,ard appeared before U, S. Commissioner: : EDWIN J. BEAN, St. Leuig, Me, and temporarily committed to : custody cf U. S, Marshal, St, Louis, Mo. upon failure to. make $100,000.00 bond. Brought before U. S. Commissioner BEAN 10-9.-53, waived hearing and remanded te custody of , U. S. Marshal, Removed to Kansas City, Missouri 10-14-53. . FALL admitted during initial interviews planning kidnaping, i \ ‘ actual abduction, burying of victim, executing ransom notes i and pickup cf ransom money but denied actual killing of victim, : HEADY admitted taking victim from se¢hool in Kansas City, Mo. a at request of HALL but claimed no knowledge of kidnaping at - | : time, Denied knowledge of circumstances pertaining to victim’s death. On 10-11-53 HALL admitted transportation of victim fran Missouri to Kansas, killing victim in Kansas and subsequently transporting victim's body to St. Joseph, Missouri *+* for turial, HEADY admjtted participation in planning of RCE cael i é DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SFACES La-NGaY a oO —| n " “_ _ jon herbin ts Orr A. sbtedi SG} Bureau ” cae be msn outsidg 5 Fansas Cityijieaie 3) AMS (4, tarde 5 St. Louis (7-429) rae “SW PROPERTY OF FBI--This confidential report and its contents are loaned to you by the FBI and are not to be / }* ini, © Tele | distributed outside of agency to which loaned, oe -— sist: UCOPIES DESTINO 1h, COVER NEAT PaLntine OFFICE 16--40857-1 BEEDEC 14 BO
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