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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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; _ at me a ral ape ae an - SL Theo Lo HEADY was reinterviewed on October 10 and 11, 1953, and she in substance related the same set of facts with but slight variations until her admission of guilt on October 11, 1953. This interview was conducted LAK \ by Special Agents and HEADY seemed to be well composed at the start of the interview; however, after thirty minutes of thorough and meticulous questioning she admitted that she had lied about getting ont of the station wagon on the Country Club Plaza on the day of the kidnapping after she get BOBBY GREENLEASE out of the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, She also admitted at this time that she knew when she got him out of the French Institute that he was not CARL HALL’s son and that there was no question in ber mind of the reason for decoying him out of the school as she and CARL HALL had been making careful plans for over twe weeks to kidnap BOBBY, She stated that CARL HALL had been talking about pulling a big kidnapping for over two months and told her he had thought of nothing else while he was in the Missouri State Penitentiary and thought he had some very good ideas wnich he cou’d use and avoid detection. BONNIE HEADY stated that they picked the GREENLEASE boy because CARL said that he knew PAUL GREENLEASE in school and knew that it was a wealthy family. She stated that they drove to Kansas City on numerous — necasions, looked at the GREENLEASE home, both from the front and rear and tried to decide the best way of getting their hands on the boy. BONNIE HEADY stated that they had first considered the possibility of keeping the boy in her home and releasing him alive, but the more they talked about doing this the more loopholes they found in this plan and decided at least two weeks before the kidnapping that they would have to kill the boy in order to avoid detection, feeling that he would be able | to identify both of them and the hide-out sheuld they release him alive, BONNIE HEADY stated that CARL HALL had followed Mr, GREENLEASE to the school where he delivered the boy on several occasions, but she could not recall ever being along when they did this. She stated that she did go with CARL HALL to the school and was familiar with the location, but denied being in the school prior to the day of the kidnapping. BONNIE HEADY stated there was absolutely no reason to kill BOBBY GREENLEASE as he never gave them any trouble or resisted them in any way. He seemed to be a happy bright little boy who just thought he was going for a ride and raised no objection whatsoever to doing se. , + BONNIE HEADY stated that she and CARL first thought about ‘putting the body in the river after they killed BOBBY GREENLEASE, but decided that this would net work as if there was a delay in the payment of the ransom money the body might come to the surface and would spoil their chances of 1-
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