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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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SL 7-429 that the son was now Living in the GREENLEASE home, She stated he had advised her that one of the conditions of the divorce action was that a court order had been executed barring him forever from seeing his son or obtaining custody of him. She stated that she definitely was told by HALL that his son was in tha GREENLEASE household and is definitely sure he named the son as "BOBBY", She stated that in driving past the GREENLEASE residence prior to the actual abduction, he stated that his purpose in driving by was to see whether oy not BOBBY was in the yard where he might surreptitiously observe him and possibly have a chance to converse with his son. She stated that while HALL never did aztually say that he was formerly married to Mrs, GREENLEASE, she, BONNIE HEADY, arrived at the conclusion that Mrs. GREENLEASE was the former wife of HALL, due to the fact that HALL had told her that his former wife was given custody of their gon, She stated that pertaining to the actual abduction, she ami HALL discussed this in detail on Sunday, which would be September 27, 1953, in her home at St. Joseph, Missouri. She stated that on that occasion they were both scher and that HALL had stated that she was to proceed to the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion School, pose as Mrs. GREENLEASE’s sister, and obtain the child using the ruse that Mrs, GREENLEASE had suddenly been taken ii] ami that she wanted custody of BOBBY in order to take him to his mother. During the questioning it was asked of Mrs, HEADY why she did not take her Plymouth station wagon to the school, secure BOBBY, and allow HALL to sit in the car and talk to him there, and she stated that "we both agreed this would not be a good idea", She stated that pursuant to their plans they left St. Joseph, Missouri, around 9:30 A.M. in her Plymouth station wagon and drove to Kansas City, Missouri, for the purpose of getting BOBBY GREENLEASE. She said they had no other cause or reason to visit Kansas City on September 28, 1953. She continued stating that they drove to the Katz Drug Store parking lot, 40th and Main, Kansas City, and parked the station wagon in the parking facility there, that she then proceeded to the Toedman Cab stand located in the immediate vicinity and secured the services of a taxicab and instructed the driver to take her to the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, 3828 Locust. She stated that on this particular moming she was definitely sober, nad had only two drinks early in the morning which had not affected her in the least and that she was normal in every manner, Continuing she advised that she arrived at the school around 11:00 A.M., to the best of her recollection, that she rang the bell at the cuter door, was admitted by the sister and informed the sister that she wa3 Mrs. GREENLEASE's sister, that she ami Mrs. GREENLEASE had been shopping in the plaza area, that Mrs, GREENLEASE had suffered a sudden heart attack and therefore had sent her, BONNIE HEADY, to the school to obtain BOBBI's custody and to bring him to Mrs, GREENLEASE, She stated that in due course of time one of the sisters brought BOBBY GREENLEASE to her, that. she left the school, proceeded in the same taxicab to 38th and Main Street to the Katz -5l- Preteen tea, tN a COA ey TTC A LOT] 5°
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