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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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Pinte Me dl gee pode bata OER eae aie A, a ee a ed ee aces SL 7-429 of the station wagon as soon as they got home from Kansas City as it was certainly not in the car when she put her groceries in after buying them J at the super market. | She said she arrived back home about 6:30 P.M. and found HALL at home alone, where she had left him about three hours earlier. BONNIE HEADY emphatically stated that no one other than CARL HALL or herself had been in her home since Monday, September 28, 1953-- that no one other than HALL and herself had slept in any of the beds and in fact no one had been on the premises with the exception of possibly her maid, who was there on the Friday before the kidnaping. She stated the maid generally comes on Monday and Triday but since they were in Kansas City on Monday, the maid cid net come and on Friday she called and said she was sick and couldn't come, She stated that so far as she knew the colored maid was the last individual other than HALL and herself who was on the premises as not even | a delivery boy had come to the home. She stated, however, that she had prepared a meal one evening for Mr, BARNEY PATTON, attorney of St. Joseph, Missouri, who was both a personal friend and legal council for CARL HALL, She stated she does not recall the exact evening that he was at the home for a steak dinner, but atates she is definitely certain that it was prior to the kidnaping. BONNIE HEADY was specifically and definitely interrogated concerning one TOM MARSCH or MARSH, or a JOHN MARSCH or MARSH, She stated emphatically that she had never heard that name prior to the time of their arrest in St. Louis, She stated she never saw any TOM MARSH, never heard of any TOM MARSH, and has no idea where he might fit into instant picture, It should be here stated that prior to this point in the interview BONNIE HEADY had stated that in the station wagon at the time of BOBBY GREENLEASE's abduction, there was a blue plastic sheet which she had used to cover the back end of the station wagon so that it would not be torn up or soiled by her boxer dog, "Doc", whom she often carried in the car. She stated she had had thia plastic cover for a long time as she previously had two other dogs, a total of three, and carried them all over the country to various dog shows and used the plastic cover to protect the station wagon from deformation by her pets, Besides the plastic cover she stated there was also an old quilt lying the back of the atation wagon but could not give any reason for it being there other than to say that it had been there a long time. She admitted it had not been cold enough in a number of months to use it as a lap robe or cover and had no logical explanation for its presence in the station wagon, + ca Fo ER EET TREN RR lt RE A FT f At. this point in the interview Mre, HEADY informed again ‘that CARL HALL had an apartment in St. Joseph that he paid $50.00 a month for, and that the reason he had this apartment was that he was on parole and he
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