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Carl Austin Hall's prison mug shots.
(Post-Dispatch)
Carl Hall, 34, in the old 11th District St. Louis Police station,
at 14
North Newstead Avenue, on Oct. 7,
in the early morning after his
arrest and
shortly after he confessed to having taken part in
kidnapping Bobby.
Hall denied
committing the murder, blaming a man named Tom.
(Post-Dispatch)
Carl Austin Hall
Heady and Hall arrive at the federal courthouse on Oct. 9,
guarded by
federal marshals
James Kearns
(left foreground) and Roy Kirgan.
(Post-Dispatch)
Hall and Heady leaving the Jackson County Jail in Kansas City on
Nov.
19 for the last day of their trial
in federal court in Kansas City.
Because they
had confessed, U.S. District Albert L. Reeves convened
a jury to
recommend
punishment. The jury needed only 68 minutes to recommend execution,
and
Reeves
took 15 more minutes to impose the sentence and set the executions
for Dec. 18.
(Post-Dispatch)
A hearse brings Heady's body out of the prison one hour after the
execution. Her burial was to be held the
next day in Clearmont, a
small town
near Maryville in far northwestern Missouri, where she had grown
up.
On that
morning, Hall's funeral arrangements were secret.
(Post-Dispatch)
The murder weapon, steel suitcases in which the remainder of the
ransom
money was found,
and other items Shoulders and Dolan confiscated
when they
arrested Hall. They were on
display at the police station.
(Post-Dispatch)
The Greenlease Home on Verona Road in Mission Hills, Kansas, as
it appeared in September of 1953.
The Poodle canine shown was one of Bobby’s favorite dogs.
Robert C. Greenlease Sr.
(Post-Dispatch)
Robert C. Greenlease Sr. with his son, Robert C. Greenlease Jr.,
in 1953.
(Associated Press file photo)
Virginia Pollock Greenlease, Bobby's mother.
(Post-Dispatch)
The victim
Bobby Greenlease in Sion school. September, 1953.
Robert C. "Bobby" Greenlease Jr., 6, of Mission Hills, Kan.,
whose
kidnapping and murder in 1953
would become arguably the most
sensational crime
in Missouri in the 20th Century.
He was taken from his Catholic
school in Kansas
City on Sept. 29, 1953, by Bonnie Brown Heady,
who posed as an aunt
with news
that Bobby's mother had been stricken by a heart attack.
He was
murdered in a
field in Kansas and buried in the woman's back yard in St. Joseph,
Mo.
Heady and
her boy-friend accomplice, Carl Austin Hall, fled with the $600,000
ransom to
St.
Louis, where they were captured and confessed. They were
executed 81 days
after the crime,
but two St. Louis police officers went to prison
over the
mysterious disappearance
of half of the ransom money.
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