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I need to tell you a story, a parable of
sorts, about love and loss, doubt and
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faith.
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In my head, I know it happened many
years ago.
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But in my heart, it's as if it happened
only yesterday.
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I'm here to pick up Bobby Greenleaf.
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Something terrible has happened.
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I was a few months away from taking my
final vows in the order of Notre Dame de
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Sion.
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Up until then, every part of my life had
been predictable.
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And orderly.
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But this was the day that it all
changed.
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We're just going to go see Mommy and
Daddy.
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I often ask myself, could I have done
something more?
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Could I have made the difference?
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Could I have prevented this terrible,
terrible thing from happening?
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Hello? Mrs. Greenleaf.
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But to dwell on oneself is a sin of
pride.
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And what I felt then, or now, is nothing
compared to what Mrs. Greenleaf must
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have felt when Sister called her from
our school.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand.
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And told her that someone had just
stolen her son.
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Sister Moran, there's some men here to
see you.
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Please answer all their questions.
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Police immediately went to Notre Dame de
Sion.
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Sister Moran, I'm Detective Bennett.
This is Detective Nesbitt. We'd like to
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you a few questions.
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Sister Moran wasn't much older than I,
and at this point, she had no idea
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anything was amiss.
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And then that all changed.
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We'd like to talk to you, Sister, about
a woman that you might have spoken to
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this morning.
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I'm here to pick up Bobby Greenleaf.
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Something terrible has happened.
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His mother's in the hospital. I need to
take him to her right away.
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I'm sorry. How are you related to Mr.
Hingley? I'm Mrs. Greenleaf's sister.
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Bobby's aunt.
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Please, she's had a heart attack. It's
very urgent.
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Of course.
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The mother superior was out of the
school on business that day, and the
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principal was teaching a class.
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Those of highest authority weren't
available, so Sister Moran, the young
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newly arrived from France, worked this
out on her own.
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And on leaving, the little boy said, can
I take my Jerusalem medal, which was
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given to him for scoring well in the
test.
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Bobby, you go with your aunt.
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Quick, quick, quick, can I go see mommy
and daddy?
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And the boy took the hand of the lady
that he didn't know and exited the
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If you're Catholic, you understand that
when a nun tells you to do something,
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you did it and never questioned it.
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And then they drove off in a taxi cab.
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Can you tell me what she looked like?
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I think she has maybe 40 years.
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She described the lady as being about 5
'3", kind of pudgy, wearing a brown
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dress and a brown hat.
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But she looked perfectly respectable,
certainly to the eyes of Sister Moran.
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Back in 1953, Kansas City had a
flamboyant criminal history, most
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Pretty Boy Floyd.
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But you just never thought you would be
touched by any of the crime.
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The chief of police, Bernard Brannan,
went to the home of the Greenleaf
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Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf.
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Can you think of anyone who might have
wanted to do this to Bobby?
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No. No one.
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Anyone who might want to do this to you,
sir? Maybe a business competitor?
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I don't think so.
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Robert Greenlees was in his early 70s
and was one of the wealthiest people in
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the Midwest.
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He owned most of the Cadillac
dealerships between Texas and South
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His estimated net worth at the time was
$24 million.
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In today's dollars, that would be worth
$350 million.
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His earlier marriage had ended in
divorce.
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Virginia Greenlease was half her
husband's age.
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Everybody who knew of the Greenleases
knew that Bobby was just like a
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Bobby's father in the 70s had never had
a biological son before.
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It was like something from heaven.
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And everybody knew how they adored him.
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Excuse me, Missy.
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Do you have any unusual phone calls in
the last few days?
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Well... Ten days earlier, she had
received a phone call.
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said she was from the public school
system and was asking questions about
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number of children, where they went to
school, what kind of pets they had.
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And the maid said, yes, Bobby had a pet
parrot.
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But I thought nothing of it.
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Hey, you pick up a fat lady and a kid
this morning?
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Who wants to know?
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The police were quick to locate the cab
driver.
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who had taken Bobby and the woman away.
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Bobby, you have that wonderful pet
parrot still?
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The cab driver thought that she knew
Bobby because she asked him about his
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parrot.
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He thought that the woman had gotten
into a blue Ford.
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But the description of a... How you
doing, kid?
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No license plate, no nothing.
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My name is Special Agent Roy Moore with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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One of the very first steps
investigators took was to ask the postal
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be on the alert.
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Within hours of the kidnapping, an
envelope was put into a mailbox. And to
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post office's great credit, they
immediately recognized that this had to
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the Greenleaf kidnapping, even though
the envelope was misaddressed.
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Your boy has been kidnapped.
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Get $600 ,000 in the 20s, 10s of Federal
Reserve notes.
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No police involvement.
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And if you follow our instructions,
you'll get them back safely. And it's
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with the letter M.
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Back in 1953, $600 ,000 was huge. It was
$10 million in today's dollars.
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And to this day, no kidnapping ransom
has ever exceeded that amount.
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The size of the ransom demand
immediately led police to suspect that
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only be a mob operation.
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Mr. Greenleaf said, we're going to pay
the money. No dickering around. Money
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didn't mean anything to him.
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He wanted to get his boy back.
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They began working really on a 24 -hour
shift to assemble the money from all 12
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Federal Reserves.
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And to record the serial numbers.
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In addition to the police, Robert
Greenlees assembles a couple of close
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associates. The first was Mr. O 'Neill.
William Letterman being another.
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And another advisor is Paul Greenlees,
who is an adopted son,
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some years older than Bobby, from an
earlier marriage.
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Bobby just adored his big brother.
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What Bobby didn't know, and why should
he have, was that well before Bobby was
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born, Paul had caused his father some
concern.
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Paul was a troublesome boy.
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He was sent to Kemper Military Academy.
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A lot of troubled teenagers were put in
there to kind of get them straightened
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out, quote -unquote.
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Paul stayed very close to his father.
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And he was kind of in the background
during all the negotiations and so
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It would take four days to assemble the
money the way they were instructed to.
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But that was too long for the
kidnappers.
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Because Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf got
another message from the mysterious M.
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They get another letter with his
Jerusalem medal.
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And this letter said, if you don't act
fast, you will never see your boy again.
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Men, thank you for all your help. But
from here on out, we're going to do this
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alone.
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We just can't take any chances with
going against the kidnappers'
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They make a strategic decision that
they're going to do this on their own.
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They did not want the police to make any
effort that might put Bobby's life in
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danger. Sir, with all due respect, my
compliments to the director and you and
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all you boys, some of whom I've known
for years. Please, we're done here.
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you. Please leave the house.
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The police and FBI decide that they'll
let the family handle this.
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1953, there was no set procedure how to
handle things.
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Mr. Greenlees was used to making
decisions, used to being in charge.
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And he must have thought, who better to
take care of Bobby than his own parents?
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The next day, the Greenlees family put
an ad in the Kansas papers letting the
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kidnappers know that the money is ready.
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And the day after that, they got what
they had hoped for.
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Hello? M gives instructions.
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They set off to deliver the money.
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The police do not follow them.
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As a girl, I once sat in the hospital
waiting room.
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And prayed to God that my baby brother
would survive surgery.
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It was a simple transaction, I thought.
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My devotion in exchange for his life.
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I imagine it was similar for Mr. and
Mrs. Greenlees over those hours.
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A bag of money for their son.
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A simple transaction.
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And Bobby would come running up the
front walk.
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I believe they would have traded
everything they had for Bobby.
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Given their very lives to have their boy
come back.
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All they could do was sit and wait and
pray.
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Where's Poppy?
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Bobby Greenlees had been at the hands of
kidnappers for four days.
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His parents were willing to pay anything
to get him back.
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And had even arranged for the enormous
ransom to be delivered to the appointed
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spot.
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But it wasn't meant to be.
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The note said to drop the bag at the
church.
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But there were so many people around, we
were afraid to leave it and somebody
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would take it.
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They failed to deliver the money to the
kidnappers.
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And the family felt...
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that they had signed Bobby's death
warrant.
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The panic exponentially increases.
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Nothing is going right.
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Okay, please calm down. We will get to
everybody's question today. Sir, can you
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tell us why the police presence has
diminished here over the last few days?
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I really can't answer that at this time,
ma 'am.
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The kidnapping has become a nationwide
sensation.
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There are, outside the Greenleaf home,
scores and scores of newspaper
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There's a front page story in New York
Times, Time magazine.
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A nation stands aghast at the kidnapping
of six -year -old Bobby Greenleaf from
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Kansas City.
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Edward R. Murrow gave you nightly
briefings and updates on the case. That
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unprecedented at that time.
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The people that we knew, that's all they
could talk about.
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Okay, folks, that's all for today. Thank
you very much.
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Hello?
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Yeah.
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Sir, you need to speak more clearly for
me.
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Five days after the kidnapping, in the
early hours of the morning, the
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kidnapper, M, calls again.
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We have the money, but we need to know
that the boy is alive and well.
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Absolutely, he's okay.
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He's a hellcat.
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We're going to earn this ransom money.
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Even though he made a series of phone
calls, they never tried to trace the
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Tracing the call would have been police
involvement.
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He sent a way for further instructions.
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Meanwhile, at the school, the students
and faculty are thunderstruck.
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We all went to Mass every day to pray
for Bobby.
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We said Hail Marys and Our Fathers.
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We wore our rosary beads to dust.
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We prayed to St. Nicholas, who watches
over children, and St.
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Anne, who watches over mothers.
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But we felt helpless.
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They were going through hell.
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You can just imagine the horrific terror
going on in her mind and in
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her imagination.
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very difficult you listen to me i am
bobby's mother tell us what we need to
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and we will do it we know how to get
there
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we will bring you the money and you
bring me my son you bring me back my son
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bring me back my son
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finally
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The kidnapper gives them real
instructions.
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We're told to drop it off a little
bridge near the old Highway 40.
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The two representatives for the family
come to this dark, secluded area where
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there's a wooden bridge.
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They toss the duffel bag over, and they
head off.
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And as they depart, they pass by another
car.
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They wonder, is that the kidnapper?
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All they could do was wonder, because
despite all the plans and promises,
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that moment, the kidnapper, the ransom,
and Bobby Greenleaf.
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all disappeared into the night.
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Bobby Greenlees had been abducted a week
ago.
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His parents had delivered an enormous
ransom to the kidnappers.
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But Bobby was nowhere to be found.
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And the whole country was on the
lookout, you might say, for kidnappers.
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And though none of us back in Kansas
City could know it, a long way away, a
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meeting between a taxi driver and his
fare would be the key to everything.
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The Lord moved in mysterious ways.
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260 miles away from Kansas City in St.
Louis, a
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cab driver named John Hager picks up a
fare.
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Hey, the trunk open?
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Yep. About 12 hours after the ransom
dropped.
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So, where to?
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You know where a man can find a girl
tonight.
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As long as you're not Johnny Law.
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If you only knew the half of it, you'd
get a real kick out of it.
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Fellow identifies himself as Steve
Strand.
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He says he's a pharmaceutical salesman.
The guy's flashing money.
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He's looking for a fixer.
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And Johnny Hager was the right person.
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He was the guy that could get anything
for you, legal or otherwise.
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He decides to take his fare to a motel
on Route 66 called the Coral Court.
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So Mr. Strand has in his possession two
very large metal cases.
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One's a footlocker, and one's a metal
suitcase.
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Both very hefty.
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Hey, just put those anywhere, okay?
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Strand tells Hager that these are
pharmaceutical family.
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Let me ask you a question. You know
where I can get a nice new suit?
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I'm going to need a nice new suit this
week. Can't go around wearing this.
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Yeah, I know a guy in downtown.
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Probably get something for you. Costs a
pretty penny, but, you know. That'd be
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great. Money's no object.
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I'm about a 40 regular. Why don't you
pick me out a nice suit?
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Steve Strand offers Mr. Hager $2 ,500 as
a retainer.
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Okay. I'll go get that for you then,
huh?
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Over the next couple of days, he asks, I
need you to do a few things for me.
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Get me a new set of clothes, rent a car,
give me something to drink, some drugs.
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All these things he accomplished.
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You know where I can get an ID?
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ID? An identification.
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Sure, yeah, I know a guy.
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Very good. Come here, let's have a
drink.
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What do you got?
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What do you think of that?
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Pharmaceutical sales that dangerous
these days?
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Well, you never know.
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Someone might be trying to rob you.
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He's saying to himself, who is this guy?
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Cheers.
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Me and you, we need to have like a
special knock so that you know it's me.
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a special knock.
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Right? Right, right, right. Right, so
I'll go just like that.
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Then only open the door if you hear that
from me.
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That's a great idea.
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So they decided that they needed a
secret knock.
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And Strand was left alone in the Coral
Court motel room.
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That evening, he hears the password
knock.
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What's all this about?
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He opens the door and in rushes two St.
Louis cops, a detective lieutenant named
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Lou Shoulders and his driver, a younger
cop in his 20s named Elmer Dolan. We get
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a report of a suspicious character with
a gun.
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He knew at that point the cab driver
gave him up.
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They find keys for the luggage.
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The jig is up.
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Let's go.
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Now I know what you're thinking.
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Oh, thank goodness they found the
kidnapper and now they can find Bobby.
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00:25:44,780 --> 00:25:47,160
But be patient and beware.
291
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,940
Because the story gets a lot more
complicated and a lot more terrifying.
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For seven days, we'd all been praying
for the safe return of Bobby Greenleaf.
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We didn't know it then, but hundreds of
miles away, a man had just been taken
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into custody.
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And he would have all the answers.
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Steve Strand.
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00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,400
Is that right?
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Louis Shoulders was a 25 - to 30 -year
-old veteran of the St. Louis Police
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Department, very street smart, had a
number of informants. He was a feared
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on the street.
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00:26:44,890 --> 00:26:47,770
That was an awful big trunk we found in
your room there, Steve.
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Lots and lots and lots of money.
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What is it you say you do?
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Steve Strand.
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00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:04,650
is going through severe alcoholic
withdrawal.
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He hadn't had a drink for a number of
hours.
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I found this in your room, too.
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Carl Austin Hall, insurance agent.
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Is that you?
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His symptoms of withdrawal became so
severe that they brought in a nurse and
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injected him with an amphetamine.
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00:27:38,110 --> 00:27:42,610
This was back in the days of the third
-degree interrogations. There was no
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thing as Miranda warnings.
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Looking a little better there. You ready
to tell me about what happened, Bobby?
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I don't know what you're talking about.
Come on, Carl.
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Bobby Greenways.
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You know all about it.
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Huh? I didn't do anything.
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00:27:58,730 --> 00:27:59,850
We know you did it, Carl.
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00:28:06,990 --> 00:28:09,110
He knew it was all over.
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00:28:12,470 --> 00:28:17,770
He admits that he's Carl Austin Hall and
that he is the kidnapper.
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00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:24,810
Carl Austin Hall was born into a wealthy
family.
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00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,920
in Pleasanton, Kansas, about 50 miles
south of Kansas City.
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He was a rich kid.
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00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,360
He was sent away to military school.
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00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,200
He was a standout student for his first
two years.
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By his third year, though, he had
discovered alcohol, and his life really
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00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000
on that.
329
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,880
He was a bit of a troublemaker.
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Evaluations said that he was dishonest,
and in fact, eventually was kicked out
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00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,629
of the school.
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00:28:51,630 --> 00:28:56,930
His mother was so disappointed with him
that she disinherited him.
333
00:28:59,350 --> 00:29:04,630
However, he inherited $200 ,000, the
equivalent of about $3 million, from his
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00:29:04,630 --> 00:29:05,630
grandmother.
335
00:29:06,450 --> 00:29:11,170
So he had enough money basically to set
him up for life.
336
00:29:11,690 --> 00:29:17,810
He went to Kansas City and enjoyed all
the vices of the big city.
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Drugs, booze, women.
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00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:21,960
Gambling.
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00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,080
And in five short years, the money was
gone.
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00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:34,100
He was reduced to robbing taxi cabs.
341
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,420
Goes to the penitentiary, a first -class
14 -garret loser.
342
00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:42,940
This kid's parents want their son back.
343
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:50,320
So we're going to get you, and we're
going to get your partner.
344
00:29:51,980 --> 00:29:54,960
What's your name? I don't know what
you're talking about. Come on, Carl.
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00:29:56,180 --> 00:30:00,060
Everybody knew that a woman had picked
up Bobby. Where is that woman?
346
00:30:00,420 --> 00:30:01,420
Just give me your name.
347
00:30:04,380 --> 00:30:05,440
Come on, Carl.
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00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,960
Bonnie.
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00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,200
Bonnie who?
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00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:13,360
Eddie.
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00:30:21,170 --> 00:30:25,990
Bonnie Heddy was living in an apartment
furnished room type in South St. Louis.
352
00:30:26,530 --> 00:30:31,330
So the police go to the apartment. They
find her bonkers drunk in bed.
353
00:30:33,890 --> 00:30:38,190
She's got a black eye and she's got $2
,500 and not another dime.
354
00:30:52,270 --> 00:30:56,410
Well, I hope you don't mind that I sat
down, but I see a beautiful woman
355
00:30:56,410 --> 00:30:59,330
across the room by herself, and I don't
know what else I'm supposed to do.
356
00:30:59,810 --> 00:31:01,110
Well, you better believe it.
357
00:31:01,570 --> 00:31:07,610
Bonnie's seven years older than Carl
Hall, and she has gone through a
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00:31:08,230 --> 00:31:10,290
She was abused in her marriage.
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00:31:10,850 --> 00:31:13,590
She began drinking, and she became a
hooker.
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00:31:14,210 --> 00:31:18,250
Hall was broke and saw an opportunity.
361
00:31:19,030 --> 00:31:21,510
She owned her own house in St. Joseph.
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00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:25,830
I see a beautiful woman, and not only is
she as beautiful as she is on the
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00:31:25,830 --> 00:31:28,630
outside, she's just as beautiful on the
inside.
364
00:31:29,810 --> 00:31:32,850
And she can drink me under the table and
screw me with a whip.
365
00:31:34,910 --> 00:31:37,510
So now I'm feeling all these things.
What is that?
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00:31:38,170 --> 00:31:39,210
Tell me what that is.
367
00:31:41,770 --> 00:31:42,770
It's love.
368
00:31:44,010 --> 00:31:45,210
That's what I call love.
369
00:31:45,930 --> 00:31:47,490
Well, you're very charming.
370
00:31:47,730 --> 00:31:49,370
So I'm in love with you, Bonnie Heddy.
371
00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:03,680
They left the bar that day together.
They went to her house.
372
00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:07,160
And Carl Hall basically never left.
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00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,560
Where's
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00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:19,320
Bobby?
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00:32:21,980 --> 00:32:23,320
It's not your fault.
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00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,160
You left me.
377
00:32:29,409 --> 00:32:30,409
What'd you do with the boy?
378
00:33:06,830 --> 00:33:07,830
What do you do with the boy?
379
00:33:10,670 --> 00:33:11,670
Where?
380
00:33:17,110 --> 00:33:18,850
They have a lot of money in that family.
381
00:33:19,730 --> 00:33:20,730
A lot of money.
382
00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:24,030
Couldn't spend that much money.
383
00:33:24,870 --> 00:33:25,990
Three lifetimes.
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00:33:26,510 --> 00:33:31,230
He figured that the easiest way to make
a bunch of money was to kidnap a rich
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00:33:31,230 --> 00:33:32,230
kid.
386
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,300
He came from a silver spoon background
himself, so he knew something about
387
00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:37,300
people with money.
388
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:44,300
Should I pour you a single or a double?
Don't joke with me.
389
00:33:46,420 --> 00:33:50,020
I have this great idea that I've been
meaning to talk to you about. It's like
390
00:33:50,020 --> 00:33:52,580
the once -in -a -lifetime idea that
someone gets.
391
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,720
It could be our ticket to the good life.
392
00:33:59,980 --> 00:34:04,040
Remember when I told you about the
Greenleaf family, the family that's got
393
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,740
money than God himself?
394
00:34:06,260 --> 00:34:11,600
Well, I think we could pick up one of
the Greenleaf kids, hold them for
395
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,360
send a note, pick up the money, and
we're gone.
396
00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:15,699
Sounds great. I'm in.
397
00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:17,820
No, I'm serious about this.
398
00:34:19,340 --> 00:34:23,159
I'm serious about this. This is the
plan, and I've been thinking about it
399
00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:26,239
and over and over in my mind. I've seen
every detail.
400
00:34:26,540 --> 00:34:28,360
All our dreams will come true.
401
00:34:28,860 --> 00:34:33,000
Honey, I don't know. That sounds
really... A lot could go wrong with
402
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,840
There's nothing that's going to go
wrong. I've thought it all through.
403
00:34:37,100 --> 00:34:42,159
A month after they met and three months
before the kidnapping, Carl Hall told
404
00:34:42,159 --> 00:34:43,320
Bonnie about his plan.
405
00:34:44,739 --> 00:34:47,580
Bonnie's reaction, naturally enough,
was, that's crazy.
406
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:49,920
If we need money, I'll sell my house.
407
00:34:50,820 --> 00:34:51,860
Do you love me?
408
00:34:52,620 --> 00:34:53,620
Yes.
409
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:55,800
I wanted to spend my life with you.
410
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,000
Then you'll go with me on this one.
411
00:35:01,550 --> 00:35:04,410
She was a woman who had lost everything.
412
00:35:06,190 --> 00:35:07,350
Do you trust me?
413
00:35:08,130 --> 00:35:09,130
Mm -hmm.
414
00:35:10,310 --> 00:35:15,590
I think she wanted to belong and be
cared for by someone so badly that she
415
00:35:15,590 --> 00:35:17,170
willing to do anything that he asked.
416
00:35:19,630 --> 00:35:20,750
I love you, Carl.
417
00:35:21,410 --> 00:35:22,490
I love you, Bonnie.
418
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,400
So what'd you do?
419
00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:44,260
So, uh... So we
420
00:35:44,260 --> 00:35:45,260
set up a plan.
421
00:35:54,080 --> 00:36:00,640
The day of the kidnapping, early in the
morning, they drove outside the
422
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:05,000
Greenlees' house and waited until they
saw Robert Greenlees.
423
00:36:05,390 --> 00:36:08,670
And Bobby drive off to Notre Dame de
Sion.
424
00:36:09,090 --> 00:36:12,610
And step two was to kidnap Bobby.
425
00:36:15,530 --> 00:36:21,130
Once Bobby and Hedy returned to the
parking lot, they got into the car.
426
00:36:22,650 --> 00:36:24,250
Are you reported? I'm fine.
427
00:36:35,750 --> 00:36:42,530
They drove outside Missouri into Kansas
and out into the country for about five
428
00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:43,530
miles.
429
00:36:49,050 --> 00:36:53,930
He pulled in a spot that he had picked
up because it was hidden by some hedges
430
00:36:53,930 --> 00:36:55,170
and a tree line.
431
00:37:04,780 --> 00:37:06,540
She took the dog out for a walk.
432
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,680
She knew what was going to happen. She
didn't want to see it.
433
00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:16,970
After dark that night, he put the body
in the hole that he dug in the backyard,
434
00:38:17,110 --> 00:38:21,430
covered it with dirt and lime, and they
planted chrysanthemums.
435
00:38:23,130 --> 00:38:29,210
To think that anyone could ever do that
to any child, what that
436
00:38:29,210 --> 00:38:31,290
monster did.
437
00:38:34,790 --> 00:38:39,750
They kidnapped the boy, and before they
asked for a ransom, they kill him.
438
00:38:50,060 --> 00:38:51,560
People were horrified.
439
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,260
It's an unspeakable act.
440
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,420
It's so improbable for a couple of
barflies
441
00:39:16,330 --> 00:39:20,330
who drank the way they did on a daily
basis to have pulled this off.
442
00:39:20,870 --> 00:39:22,370
These were real amateurs.
443
00:39:24,310 --> 00:39:29,370
In fact, Hall had a personal connection
to the Greenleaf family, going back to
444
00:39:29,370 --> 00:39:34,110
his days at Kemper Military Academy,
where one of his classmates was Hall
445
00:39:34,110 --> 00:39:35,310
Greenleaf.
446
00:39:38,130 --> 00:39:41,970
And this is apparently what planted the
idea for the kidnapping.
447
00:39:44,130 --> 00:39:51,030
After they got the money in the car,
Carl Hall was worried that they'd seen
448
00:39:51,030 --> 00:39:54,870
his license plate, and this is what
prompted them to hightail it across the
449
00:39:54,870 --> 00:39:55,788
state to St. Louis.
450
00:39:55,790 --> 00:39:57,990
They rented a cheap apartment.
451
00:39:58,810 --> 00:40:02,750
Bonnie Heddy resented that it was a
cheap apartment, so they argued about
452
00:40:03,350 --> 00:40:05,390
And Carl Hall punched her in the eye.
453
00:40:06,690 --> 00:40:07,870
She passed out.
454
00:40:08,130 --> 00:40:13,090
Carl Hall left $2 ,500 in cash, and he
took the rest.
455
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,920
I don't think either of them really were
capable of real moral sorrow.
456
00:40:22,340 --> 00:40:28,200
They are sentenced to death, both of
them, in the Missouri gas chamber.
457
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,900
Okay, Hall, on your feet.
458
00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:32,540
Carl Hall was afraid of death.
459
00:40:35,500 --> 00:40:39,660
Possible for Bonnie, death is a way out
from her depressed existence.
460
00:40:40,740 --> 00:40:43,160
She seemed resigned to her fate.
461
00:40:44,490 --> 00:40:47,590
Bonnie Hedy and Carl Hall paid for their
sins with their lives.
462
00:40:48,490 --> 00:40:51,610
Their bodies were in the ground just 30
days after the verdict.
463
00:40:52,630 --> 00:40:57,070
But there is an epilogue to this story
that to this day I find disturbing.
464
00:40:58,790 --> 00:41:00,490
Half the ransom money disappeared.
465
00:41:02,450 --> 00:41:03,970
$312 ,000 missing.
466
00:41:04,390 --> 00:41:06,670
And to this day has never been found.
467
00:41:07,910 --> 00:41:12,110
Johnny Hager was on the payroll of Joe
Costello, the mobster.
468
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:16,310
Also on the payroll of Joe Costello, the
mobster, was Lieutenant Shoulders.
469
00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:24,150
In fact, Joe Costello was outside the
motel room as Carl Hall was being let
470
00:41:29,890 --> 00:41:34,630
There are virtually no good guys, and
the bad guys are exceptionally bad.
471
00:41:40,940 --> 00:41:42,680
What the Greenlees had lost was
infinite.
472
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:52,100
It was the pain that endured,
unrelenting, long after Bobby's killers
473
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:53,100
to death.
474
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,340
No amount of justice would ever fill the
hole in their lives.
475
00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:22,820
You think of the 50s as being the happy
time.
476
00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:27,120
But this is the darkest cloud that ever
floated over the 50s sky.
477
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,960
And these many years later, when I think
of Bobby, and I often do, I say a
478
00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:34,960
prayer for what we lost.
479
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,540
A little boy and a little of our
innocence.
480
00:42:49,930 --> 00:42:55,970
Valley so low, hang your head
481
00:42:55,970 --> 00:43:01,050
over, hear the wind blow.
482
00:43:04,150 --> 00:43:10,410
Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind
blow.
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