◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Greenlease Kidnapping — Part 1

77 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Kidnapping & Ransom · Topic: Greenlease Kidnapping · 76 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
Ses a eri nats elt tence ek A SS MN AL hoe a ae eh ark Fh Sa kab eT a RIK Roach See, lL SL 7-429 4 je a Sen Oe a i ATs iad eae Bie ea neo 2. SIGNED STATEMENT QF BONNIE HEADY | The following 1s thp afgned statement of subject BONNIE HEADY: , . ae 7 "St. Louis, Mo. Octeber 11,1953. I "T, Bonnie Heady, maze the fpllowing voluntary signed statement ae << CT Special Agents, FBI, U. 8. bn Dep't. of Justice. fo threats er pfomises of any kind have been made to me and I know I do not have to make any statement \oD ‘ unless I so desire, I have peen advised of my right to employ a lawyer. ‘ 7 : - a "On Sunday September 27, 1953, Carl Hall, with whom I have been living at my hom# 1201 South 38th Street, St. Joseph, Missouri, dug a hcle in my back yard. This hole was about 4 feet deep, between 4 and § feet long and about 3 feet wide. It took Carl all afternoon to dig this hoje. I didn't help him dig it but —_ knew at the time ‘he was digging it in furtherance of his plan : Poo to kidnap Bobby Greenlease and intended to kill him and dispose Pan of his bedy by burying him in this hole. "On Monday September 28, 1953 Carl and I drove to Kansas City in my Plymouth station wagon and according to our previously worked out plan T took a Toedman gab to the French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion. Y had the cgb wait while I went in to get Bobby Greenleage. I told the sigters that I was Bobby freenlease's aunt and that his mother had had a heart attaet while we were shopping on the Plaza. The sister yent and got Bobby Greeplease for me. and I togk him out and we got in the cab which I had waiting for ‘me, I had the cab drive mq to Katy's parking lot at 40th & Main where Cark was waiting for me in my station wagon. "Bobby and I got in with Bobby in the middle of the front seat and Carl drave us out in the country. I didn't know wheres we went but we started out Westport Road and went quite a ways out in the country and onto a natural colored gravel yoad. We drove off this road\into a wheat field with the stupble standing. There was a big thick hedge along side this lane and wa drove in quite a ways and parked. J] knew Carl was going tp shogt the boy although he hadn't given ug any trouble, I got out and walked off the hedge row for quite a ways until I heard two shots fired fairly close together. I had my dog "Doc" with me and as soon as I heard the two shots. I turned around and went back to the car. “ i . ' t 68— Te AEE Td or “ —— " rn bal baal
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 68
Jump straight to page 68 of 77.
Reader
Greenlease Kidnapping — Part 3
Stay inside Greenlease Kidnapping with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Greenlease Kidnapping Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Kidnapping & Ransom archive hub and the more specific Greenlease Kidnapping topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
bureau
Related subtopics
joan-rivers
1 documents · 28 known pages
Subtopic
louis-pearlman
1 documents · 117 known pages
Subtopic