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ecco Fer ea te RT id Oe IG a Cen ev aE Re Po living at her residence. I brought the subject up to her and we talked abowt it, several times. JT had thought — of the Greenlease boy some time ago because I heard of all their money. We began to make definite plans about three weeks before the kidnaping. Bormie was with m in all the arrangements. At first we planned that we would keep him in the house but then we were afraid that he might recognize us or the house if we let him go. We then planned we had to kill him. We had planned to get him out of school by Bonnie going to the school and saying that the mother was i11 and she had com to take him home. I already had the gum and a few days before, I bought a suovel and a bag of lima. I think it was a fifty or — seventy five pound bag. I also bought two blue plastic covers, at the Western Auto Store in St. Joe. O the morning of the kidnaping we left St. Joe around 6:00 AM and went down to Kansas City and parked around the ‘school, We than drove around till about 11:00 or 11:30 AM thinking that would be the best time. At around that time I left her off near the taxi stand and told her to go and try to get tha boy, and to meet me at Katz Parking lot, Oth and Main St., Kansas Gity, Mo. In about 10 or i5 minutes she was back with the boy. We had her (Bonnie's) station wagon, a 1951 Plymouth. Bonnie and the boy got into the station wagon and we drove out Highway 169 in a southerly direction, turned off at a large farm with a fence around it anda big lake on the inside. We turned wast and drove toa big hedge row, a distance of two miles or so and turned in and stopped. There was a large barn there and an airplane ‘ parked behind the barn. Honnie got out and walked some distance away. I had the gun in my coat pocket. I pulled it out and IT shot once trying to hit him in the heart. I don't know whether I hit him or not for he was still alive. First I tried to strangle him but saw it wouldn't work and that IT had to shoot him. I shot him through the head on the second shot. I took him out of the car, laid hin on the ground and put him in the plastic bag. I remember a lot of bleod there. This farm where the killing occurred is about 2 miles south and 2 miles west of the state line and in the state of Kansas. We put the boy in the back of the station wagon and drova back to St. Joe, We drove é “LS— SO AMET RRS EEE ERNE iE IE 1 Rt ey at ay TP era eB I RR