Kidnapping of Bobby Greenlease

Bobby Cosgrove Greenlease Jr. was a 6-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, who was the victim of a kidnapping and homicide on September 28, 1953. Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady sent Bobby’s father messages in the mail and phone calls demanding a ransom of USD 600,000. The requested ransom payment was the largest in American history at the time. Hall and...