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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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Et eed at te hc aA ey ea nil et oh ah a Kirn eit . ML. 4 cums SL 7-429 too much ef a risk to get him to the phone, he said she asked him two questions that she wanted to have BOBBY answer and requested that he , phone her back. The first question was something about who was their chauffeur in Europe and the second question had something to do : with what BOBBY had built in his playroom, HALL told Mrs, GREENLEASE * he would endeavor to get BOBBY to answer these questions for her and call her back within an hour, knowing full well all the time that } BOBBY was already dead. When HALL did call he told them that BOBBY had refused to answer the questions but he assured them that BOBBY was alive and well but homesick, HALL said that he made some remark that BOBBY had told him about his parrot that whistled in order to | try and reassure them that the boy was still alive so that they would be sure t> go through with the payoff. HALL stated that on Sunday, Cctober 4th, he and BONNIE HEADY checked into Tiny and Mariets. Motel on east Highway #40, taking the end cabin as you drive in on the right hand side. He stated that BONNIE HEADY had passed out and remained in bed all day. He stated that he went out and started laying out a third payoff route, finally a about a mile from Highway #40 which he thought would be a good place . for the payoff. ; HALL stated that he had _aiready told the GREENLEASEs that he Pereet Ta nal] tha Ge WUULU Lal. then at 8:00 Pi. , Sunday, October 4th, but that he did not eall them until 8:30, at which time he apologized for being late. He stated that this call was placed from Katz Drug Store, Lynnwood and Troost, and that he talked to Mr. LEDTERMAN, He told LEDTERMAN he was going to make the payoff very simple and that they could expect the child back within twenty-four hours, He stated that he told LEDTERMAN he should go to Pittsburg, Kansas and wait for a message addressed to him, LEDTERMAN, in care of Western Union at that point, which would tell him where the child could be picked up, HALL stated he told LEDTERMAN he would call him at exactly 11:30 p.m. at telephone Valentine 9279, HALL stated he did not tell LEDTERMAN where this phone was located as he was somewhat muddled. He stated that LEDTERMAN kept insisting that he tell him the location of this phone as he. had no other way of finding out where it was located and that he finally told him it was somewhere around Lynnwood and Troost; more specifically, near the LaSalle Hotel, He finally told him it was some kind of a "shire® stating that he, himself, could not remember the correct name of: the hot#l in which the phone booth was located, but which he now knows as the Berkshire Hotel. men BO if H vag 3 fu ' = re ¥i i tel ths 33+ Prepon ag en nde NE Ea PR TT op A oo ee , deciding on county road 10E running south off Highway #40 to a bridge ——
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