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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-h29 . FF "and knew that no police were around. Iwaited about ten minutes and drove to the spot, got out, picked up the duffel bag and placed it in the trunk of a rented car. After getting the money BONNIE HEADY and I drove back into Kansas City and called the GREENLEASE home from a pay station from a bar on Troost. I told him I had gotten the bag and I would send him a wire the following morning at Pittsburg, Kansas in care of Western Union. I told him instructions concerning the return of BOBBY GREENLEASE would be set out in the wire. I did not send the wire and mew that BOBBY could not be returned because he was dead. "BONNIE HEADY was with me while Iwatched the contact place . the money in the duffel bag at the spot and was in the car when I i got out and got it. BONNIE HEADY and I drove to St. Louis arrivim early in the morning and rented a room or an apartment at 150k Arsenal Street. BONNIE HEADY and I had an argument and I left the apartment leaving her with about $2,000 of the kidnap money. "J drove to a motel called the Coral Motel or Coral Court and stayed, I think, in cabin h9A. I arranged to get a girl to stay with ma through some cabbie and stayed with her overnight. I went on back to town in a cab. She came back to the motel that day in a cab and I made arrangements for her to go to Los Angeles by plane and gave her some of the ransom money. I think I gave her $1,000 and I told her to do two or three things for me. Me of them was to mail a letter to an attorney named BARNEY PATTON in the Corby Building at St. Joseph, Missouri. I said I was planing on leaving the country. I sent him the key to may apartment in St. Josephs "SANDY, the girl who stayed in the motel with me, was to contact me through Western Union and I,think I told her to call me or contact ma by the name of STEVIN“CRANR at St. Louis in care ree at Ee = SPS dae ee oe. of Western Union. I wanted SANDY to mail a letter from Los Angeles to BARNEY PATTON in St. Joseph to tell him what had happened. I made telephonic contacts with the GREENLEASE home and sent letters through the U, s. en and told the GREENLEASE a fami ly the boy would be returne afely if #600 O00 were na ak wy ee ee ee ass ate wee pee AO. paid Ts « ” WEONNIE HEADY was drinking considerably and I tried to conceal it fran her. Although she was suspicious I don't think she knew what the whole thing was all abouts «~1S5¢e- Ae RT AE RE Ie I tty EL
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