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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:15,580 I need to tell you a story, a parable of sorts, about love and loss, doubt and 2 00:00:15,580 --> 00:00:16,580 faith. 3 00:00:16,860 --> 00:00:19,720 In my head, I know it happened many years ago. 4 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:23,860 But in my heart, it's as if it happened only yesterday. 5 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,000 I'm here to pick up Bobby Greenleaf. 6 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:28,920 Something terrible has happened. 7 00:00:29,660 --> 00:00:34,060 I was a few months away from taking my final vows in the order of Notre Dame de 8 00:00:34,060 --> 00:00:35,060 Sion. 9 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:38,080 Up until then, every part of my life had been predictable. 10 00:00:38,650 --> 00:00:39,650 And orderly. 11 00:00:41,030 --> 00:00:43,110 But this was the day that it all changed. 12 00:00:47,090 --> 00:00:49,030 We're just going to go see Mommy and Daddy. 13 00:00:49,930 --> 00:00:52,930 I often ask myself, could I have done something more? 14 00:00:53,210 --> 00:00:54,650 Could I have made the difference? 15 00:00:55,110 --> 00:00:58,590 Could I have prevented this terrible, terrible thing from happening? 16 00:01:15,870 --> 00:01:17,390 Hello? Mrs. Greenleaf. 17 00:01:18,250 --> 00:01:20,690 But to dwell on oneself is a sin of pride. 18 00:01:21,850 --> 00:01:27,050 And what I felt then, or now, is nothing compared to what Mrs. Greenleaf must 19 00:01:27,050 --> 00:01:29,030 have felt when Sister called her from our school. 20 00:01:29,570 --> 00:01:31,030 I'm sorry, I don't understand. 21 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:34,610 And told her that someone had just stolen her son. 22 00:02:01,650 --> 00:02:05,270 Sister Moran, there's some men here to see you. 23 00:02:05,850 --> 00:02:07,310 Please answer all their questions. 24 00:02:08,610 --> 00:02:10,850 Police immediately went to Notre Dame de Sion. 25 00:02:11,390 --> 00:02:14,750 Sister Moran, I'm Detective Bennett. This is Detective Nesbitt. We'd like to 26 00:02:14,750 --> 00:02:15,750 you a few questions. 27 00:02:16,550 --> 00:02:20,590 Sister Moran wasn't much older than I, and at this point, she had no idea 28 00:02:20,590 --> 00:02:21,590 anything was amiss. 29 00:02:21,870 --> 00:02:23,270 And then that all changed. 30 00:02:23,970 --> 00:02:27,530 We'd like to talk to you, Sister, about a woman that you might have spoken to 31 00:02:27,530 --> 00:02:28,530 this morning. 32 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,440 I'm here to pick up Bobby Greenleaf. 33 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:35,980 Something terrible has happened. 34 00:02:36,180 --> 00:02:38,680 His mother's in the hospital. I need to take him to her right away. 35 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,880 I'm sorry. How are you related to Mr. Hingley? I'm Mrs. Greenleaf's sister. 36 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:43,759 Bobby's aunt. 37 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:45,680 Please, she's had a heart attack. It's very urgent. 38 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,200 Of course. 39 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,700 The mother superior was out of the school on business that day, and the 40 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:55,020 principal was teaching a class. 41 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:08,680 Those of highest authority weren't available, so Sister Moran, the young 42 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,180 newly arrived from France, worked this out on her own. 43 00:03:16,420 --> 00:03:20,840 And on leaving, the little boy said, can I take my Jerusalem medal, which was 44 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,060 given to him for scoring well in the test. 45 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:29,380 Bobby, you go with your aunt. 46 00:03:30,430 --> 00:03:32,510 Quick, quick, quick, can I go see mommy and daddy? 47 00:03:32,990 --> 00:03:37,890 And the boy took the hand of the lady that he didn't know and exited the 48 00:03:39,490 --> 00:03:43,110 If you're Catholic, you understand that when a nun tells you to do something, 49 00:03:43,230 --> 00:03:44,870 you did it and never questioned it. 50 00:03:46,170 --> 00:03:48,230 And then they drove off in a taxi cab. 51 00:04:00,490 --> 00:04:02,270 Can you tell me what she looked like? 52 00:04:03,590 --> 00:04:06,970 I think she has maybe 40 years. 53 00:04:08,590 --> 00:04:15,070 She described the lady as being about 5 '3", kind of pudgy, wearing a brown 54 00:04:15,070 --> 00:04:16,550 dress and a brown hat. 55 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:22,110 But she looked perfectly respectable, certainly to the eyes of Sister Moran. 56 00:04:37,710 --> 00:04:44,210 Back in 1953, Kansas City had a flamboyant criminal history, most 57 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:45,310 Pretty Boy Floyd. 58 00:04:47,190 --> 00:04:51,030 But you just never thought you would be touched by any of the crime. 59 00:04:58,710 --> 00:05:03,710 The chief of police, Bernard Brannan, went to the home of the Greenleaf 60 00:05:04,730 --> 00:05:06,110 Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf. 61 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,220 Can you think of anyone who might have wanted to do this to Bobby? 62 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:11,280 No. No one. 63 00:05:11,940 --> 00:05:15,740 Anyone who might want to do this to you, sir? Maybe a business competitor? 64 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:17,980 I don't think so. 65 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,260 Robert Greenlees was in his early 70s and was one of the wealthiest people in 66 00:05:23,260 --> 00:05:24,099 the Midwest. 67 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:29,040 He owned most of the Cadillac dealerships between Texas and South 68 00:05:29,540 --> 00:05:32,440 His estimated net worth at the time was $24 million. 69 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,320 In today's dollars, that would be worth $350 million. 70 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:39,120 His earlier marriage had ended in divorce. 71 00:05:39,740 --> 00:05:43,000 Virginia Greenlease was half her husband's age. 72 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:53,040 Everybody who knew of the Greenleases knew that Bobby was just like a 73 00:05:54,940 --> 00:05:59,800 Bobby's father in the 70s had never had a biological son before. 74 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:03,800 It was like something from heaven. 75 00:06:07,180 --> 00:06:10,280 And everybody knew how they adored him. 76 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:18,320 Excuse me, Missy. 77 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,240 Do you have any unusual phone calls in the last few days? 78 00:06:23,420 --> 00:06:28,000 Well... Ten days earlier, she had received a phone call. 79 00:06:29,050 --> 00:06:33,130 said she was from the public school system and was asking questions about 80 00:06:33,130 --> 00:06:36,790 number of children, where they went to school, what kind of pets they had. 81 00:06:37,150 --> 00:06:40,270 And the maid said, yes, Bobby had a pet parrot. 82 00:06:40,570 --> 00:06:41,910 But I thought nothing of it. 83 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:51,310 Hey, you pick up a fat lady and a kid this morning? 84 00:06:51,670 --> 00:06:52,710 Who wants to know? 85 00:06:53,630 --> 00:06:55,790 The police were quick to locate the cab driver. 86 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,460 who had taken Bobby and the woman away. 87 00:06:59,940 --> 00:07:02,340 Bobby, you have that wonderful pet parrot still? 88 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:07,260 The cab driver thought that she knew Bobby because she asked him about his 89 00:07:07,260 --> 00:07:08,260 parrot. 90 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:14,760 He thought that the woman had gotten into a blue Ford. 91 00:07:15,260 --> 00:07:19,900 But the description of a... How you doing, kid? 92 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:22,560 No license plate, no nothing. 93 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,220 My name is Special Agent Roy Moore with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 94 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:37,640 One of the very first steps investigators took was to ask the postal 95 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:38,640 be on the alert. 96 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:46,960 Within hours of the kidnapping, an envelope was put into a mailbox. And to 97 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,000 post office's great credit, they immediately recognized that this had to 98 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,800 the Greenleaf kidnapping, even though the envelope was misaddressed. 99 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,580 Your boy has been kidnapped. 100 00:07:57,180 --> 00:08:01,340 Get $600 ,000 in the 20s, 10s of Federal Reserve notes. 101 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:03,220 No police involvement. 102 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,640 And if you follow our instructions, you'll get them back safely. And it's 103 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:09,380 with the letter M. 104 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:16,880 Back in 1953, $600 ,000 was huge. It was $10 million in today's dollars. 105 00:08:17,260 --> 00:08:21,720 And to this day, no kidnapping ransom has ever exceeded that amount. 106 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:34,460 The size of the ransom demand immediately led police to suspect that 107 00:08:34,460 --> 00:08:36,360 only be a mob operation. 108 00:08:39,580 --> 00:08:44,240 Mr. Greenleaf said, we're going to pay the money. No dickering around. Money 109 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,340 didn't mean anything to him. 110 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:47,240 He wanted to get his boy back. 111 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:54,760 They began working really on a 24 -hour shift to assemble the money from all 12 112 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:55,760 Federal Reserves. 113 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:58,880 And to record the serial numbers. 114 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:08,340 In addition to the police, Robert Greenlees assembles a couple of close 115 00:09:08,340 --> 00:09:13,740 associates. The first was Mr. O 'Neill. William Letterman being another. 116 00:09:14,460 --> 00:09:20,540 And another advisor is Paul Greenlees, who is an adopted son, 117 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,980 some years older than Bobby, from an earlier marriage. 118 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,340 Bobby just adored his big brother. 119 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:32,940 What Bobby didn't know, and why should he have, was that well before Bobby was 120 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:36,060 born, Paul had caused his father some concern. 121 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:40,120 Paul was a troublesome boy. 122 00:09:40,420 --> 00:09:43,620 He was sent to Kemper Military Academy. 123 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:48,880 A lot of troubled teenagers were put in there to kind of get them straightened 124 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:49,880 out, quote -unquote. 125 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:54,300 Paul stayed very close to his father. 126 00:09:55,630 --> 00:09:59,970 And he was kind of in the background during all the negotiations and so 127 00:10:05,310 --> 00:10:08,990 It would take four days to assemble the money the way they were instructed to. 128 00:10:09,550 --> 00:10:11,930 But that was too long for the kidnappers. 129 00:10:12,450 --> 00:10:16,350 Because Mr. and Mrs. Greenleaf got another message from the mysterious M. 130 00:10:20,890 --> 00:10:24,210 They get another letter with his Jerusalem medal. 131 00:10:25,610 --> 00:10:30,230 And this letter said, if you don't act fast, you will never see your boy again. 132 00:10:38,470 --> 00:10:43,930 Men, thank you for all your help. But from here on out, we're going to do this 133 00:10:43,930 --> 00:10:44,930 alone. 134 00:10:45,430 --> 00:10:50,110 We just can't take any chances with going against the kidnappers' 135 00:10:50,990 --> 00:10:54,950 They make a strategic decision that they're going to do this on their own. 136 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:00,860 They did not want the police to make any effort that might put Bobby's life in 137 00:11:00,860 --> 00:11:05,380 danger. Sir, with all due respect, my compliments to the director and you and 138 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:09,340 all you boys, some of whom I've known for years. Please, we're done here. 139 00:11:09,340 --> 00:11:10,460 you. Please leave the house. 140 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,560 The police and FBI decide that they'll let the family handle this. 141 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:22,860 1953, there was no set procedure how to handle things. 142 00:11:24,619 --> 00:11:27,940 Mr. Greenlees was used to making decisions, used to being in charge. 143 00:11:28,860 --> 00:11:33,320 And he must have thought, who better to take care of Bobby than his own parents? 144 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:47,540 The next day, the Greenlees family put an ad in the Kansas papers letting the 145 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:49,700 kidnappers know that the money is ready. 146 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,320 And the day after that, they got what they had hoped for. 147 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,680 Hello? M gives instructions. 148 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:17,240 They set off to deliver the money. 149 00:12:18,820 --> 00:12:20,860 The police do not follow them. 150 00:12:25,060 --> 00:12:27,860 As a girl, I once sat in the hospital waiting room. 151 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,880 And prayed to God that my baby brother would survive surgery. 152 00:12:31,420 --> 00:12:33,840 It was a simple transaction, I thought. 153 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,720 My devotion in exchange for his life. 154 00:12:38,060 --> 00:12:41,340 I imagine it was similar for Mr. and Mrs. Greenlees over those hours. 155 00:12:41,660 --> 00:12:43,400 A bag of money for their son. 156 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:44,920 A simple transaction. 157 00:12:45,580 --> 00:12:47,540 And Bobby would come running up the front walk. 158 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,160 I believe they would have traded everything they had for Bobby. 159 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,420 Given their very lives to have their boy come back. 160 00:13:07,370 --> 00:13:10,710 All they could do was sit and wait and pray. 161 00:13:31,990 --> 00:13:36,630 Where's Poppy? 162 00:14:00,080 --> 00:14:03,260 Bobby Greenlees had been at the hands of kidnappers for four days. 163 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:07,140 His parents were willing to pay anything to get him back. 164 00:14:07,820 --> 00:14:11,440 And had even arranged for the enormous ransom to be delivered to the appointed 165 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:12,440 spot. 166 00:14:13,220 --> 00:14:14,740 But it wasn't meant to be. 167 00:14:15,460 --> 00:14:18,060 The note said to drop the bag at the church. 168 00:14:18,260 --> 00:14:21,020 But there were so many people around, we were afraid to leave it and somebody 169 00:14:21,020 --> 00:14:22,020 would take it. 170 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,000 They failed to deliver the money to the kidnappers. 171 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:27,500 And the family felt... 172 00:14:27,850 --> 00:14:29,890 that they had signed Bobby's death warrant. 173 00:14:31,510 --> 00:14:33,970 The panic exponentially increases. 174 00:14:34,670 --> 00:14:35,830 Nothing is going right. 175 00:14:44,010 --> 00:14:47,950 Okay, please calm down. We will get to everybody's question today. Sir, can you 176 00:14:47,950 --> 00:14:50,810 tell us why the police presence has diminished here over the last few days? 177 00:14:51,050 --> 00:14:52,810 I really can't answer that at this time, ma 'am. 178 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,140 The kidnapping has become a nationwide sensation. 179 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:02,520 There are, outside the Greenleaf home, scores and scores of newspaper 180 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:07,920 There's a front page story in New York Times, Time magazine. 181 00:15:08,820 --> 00:15:13,220 A nation stands aghast at the kidnapping of six -year -old Bobby Greenleaf from 182 00:15:13,220 --> 00:15:14,220 Kansas City. 183 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:19,300 Edward R. Murrow gave you nightly briefings and updates on the case. That 184 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:20,820 unprecedented at that time. 185 00:15:21,340 --> 00:15:23,500 The people that we knew, that's all they could talk about. 186 00:15:23,780 --> 00:15:26,240 Okay, folks, that's all for today. Thank you very much. 187 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,120 Hello? 188 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:47,400 Yeah. 189 00:15:50,670 --> 00:15:52,610 Sir, you need to speak more clearly for me. 190 00:15:52,990 --> 00:15:56,470 Five days after the kidnapping, in the early hours of the morning, the 191 00:15:56,470 --> 00:15:58,390 kidnapper, M, calls again. 192 00:15:59,010 --> 00:16:02,750 We have the money, but we need to know that the boy is alive and well. 193 00:16:03,230 --> 00:16:04,490 Absolutely, he's okay. 194 00:16:05,030 --> 00:16:06,050 He's a hellcat. 195 00:16:06,590 --> 00:16:08,210 We're going to earn this ransom money. 196 00:16:08,890 --> 00:16:13,490 Even though he made a series of phone calls, they never tried to trace the 197 00:16:13,730 --> 00:16:16,190 Tracing the call would have been police involvement. 198 00:16:19,820 --> 00:16:21,360 He sent a way for further instructions. 199 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,520 Meanwhile, at the school, the students and faculty are thunderstruck. 200 00:16:43,340 --> 00:16:46,880 We all went to Mass every day to pray for Bobby. 201 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:50,600 We said Hail Marys and Our Fathers. 202 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,960 We wore our rosary beads to dust. 203 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,560 We prayed to St. Nicholas, who watches over children, and St. 204 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:02,980 Anne, who watches over mothers. 205 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:06,720 But we felt helpless. 206 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:11,859 They were going through hell. 207 00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:38,990 You can just imagine the horrific terror going on in her mind and in 208 00:17:38,990 --> 00:17:39,990 her imagination. 209 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:20,860 very difficult you listen to me i am bobby's mother tell us what we need to 210 00:18:20,860 --> 00:18:27,360 and we will do it we know how to get there 211 00:18:27,360 --> 00:18:33,300 we will bring you the money and you bring me my son you bring me back my son 212 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:34,400 bring me back my son 213 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:42,460 finally 214 00:18:43,180 --> 00:18:47,560 The kidnapper gives them real instructions. 215 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,600 We're told to drop it off a little bridge near the old Highway 40. 216 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:02,520 The two representatives for the family come to this dark, secluded area where 217 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:03,520 there's a wooden bridge. 218 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:16,660 They toss the duffel bag over, and they head off. 219 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:26,940 And as they depart, they pass by another car. 220 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,420 They wonder, is that the kidnapper? 221 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:37,060 All they could do was wonder, because despite all the plans and promises, 222 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:41,860 that moment, the kidnapper, the ransom, and Bobby Greenleaf. 223 00:19:42,380 --> 00:19:44,400 all disappeared into the night. 224 00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:57,140 Bobby Greenlees had been abducted a week ago. 225 00:19:57,820 --> 00:20:00,740 His parents had delivered an enormous ransom to the kidnappers. 226 00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:04,000 But Bobby was nowhere to be found. 227 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,420 And the whole country was on the lookout, you might say, for kidnappers. 228 00:20:10,510 --> 00:20:15,170 And though none of us back in Kansas City could know it, a long way away, a 229 00:20:15,170 --> 00:20:19,530 meeting between a taxi driver and his fare would be the key to everything. 230 00:20:20,570 --> 00:20:23,030 The Lord moved in mysterious ways. 231 00:20:23,970 --> 00:20:30,970 260 miles away from Kansas City in St. Louis, a 232 00:20:30,970 --> 00:20:35,630 cab driver named John Hager picks up a fare. 233 00:20:36,290 --> 00:20:37,350 Hey, the trunk open? 234 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:41,710 Yep. About 12 hours after the ransom dropped. 235 00:20:43,830 --> 00:20:44,830 So, where to? 236 00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:46,790 You know where a man can find a girl tonight. 237 00:20:47,410 --> 00:20:48,910 As long as you're not Johnny Law. 238 00:20:50,830 --> 00:20:53,690 If you only knew the half of it, you'd get a real kick out of it. 239 00:20:56,090 --> 00:20:58,370 Fellow identifies himself as Steve Strand. 240 00:20:58,670 --> 00:21:02,270 He says he's a pharmaceutical salesman. The guy's flashing money. 241 00:21:02,610 --> 00:21:04,010 He's looking for a fixer. 242 00:21:04,510 --> 00:21:07,490 And Johnny Hager was the right person. 243 00:21:07,870 --> 00:21:10,650 He was the guy that could get anything for you, legal or otherwise. 244 00:21:11,370 --> 00:21:17,910 He decides to take his fare to a motel on Route 66 called the Coral Court. 245 00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:35,010 So Mr. Strand has in his possession two very large metal cases. 246 00:21:37,290 --> 00:21:40,010 One's a footlocker, and one's a metal suitcase. 247 00:21:40,570 --> 00:21:41,890 Both very hefty. 248 00:21:43,870 --> 00:21:45,450 Hey, just put those anywhere, okay? 249 00:21:46,970 --> 00:21:49,730 Strand tells Hager that these are pharmaceutical family. 250 00:21:51,330 --> 00:21:54,270 Let me ask you a question. You know where I can get a nice new suit? 251 00:21:55,350 --> 00:21:58,610 I'm going to need a nice new suit this week. Can't go around wearing this. 252 00:21:59,850 --> 00:22:01,470 Yeah, I know a guy in downtown. 253 00:22:01,830 --> 00:22:04,950 Probably get something for you. Costs a pretty penny, but, you know. That'd be 254 00:22:04,950 --> 00:22:05,950 great. Money's no object. 255 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,960 I'm about a 40 regular. Why don't you pick me out a nice suit? 256 00:22:14,260 --> 00:22:18,280 Steve Strand offers Mr. Hager $2 ,500 as a retainer. 257 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,240 Okay. I'll go get that for you then, huh? 258 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,680 Over the next couple of days, he asks, I need you to do a few things for me. 259 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:34,060 Get me a new set of clothes, rent a car, give me something to drink, some drugs. 260 00:22:34,750 --> 00:22:36,070 All these things he accomplished. 261 00:22:43,490 --> 00:22:44,750 You know where I can get an ID? 262 00:22:47,530 --> 00:22:48,790 ID? An identification. 263 00:22:51,390 --> 00:22:52,810 Sure, yeah, I know a guy. 264 00:22:53,670 --> 00:22:55,170 Very good. Come here, let's have a drink. 265 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:57,250 What do you got? 266 00:23:23,180 --> 00:23:24,180 What do you think of that? 267 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:26,620 Pharmaceutical sales that dangerous these days? 268 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:28,560 Well, you never know. 269 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,540 Someone might be trying to rob you. 270 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,920 He's saying to himself, who is this guy? 271 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:46,240 Cheers. 272 00:23:52,490 --> 00:23:58,070 Me and you, we need to have like a special knock so that you know it's me. 273 00:23:58,070 --> 00:23:59,070 a special knock. 274 00:23:59,390 --> 00:24:05,590 Right? Right, right, right. Right, so I'll go just like that. 275 00:24:05,850 --> 00:24:08,330 Then only open the door if you hear that from me. 276 00:24:09,050 --> 00:24:10,050 That's a great idea. 277 00:24:10,710 --> 00:24:13,450 So they decided that they needed a secret knock. 278 00:24:15,630 --> 00:24:19,270 And Strand was left alone in the Coral Court motel room. 279 00:24:31,150 --> 00:24:34,090 That evening, he hears the password knock. 280 00:24:38,730 --> 00:24:39,990 What's all this about? 281 00:24:40,490 --> 00:24:46,390 He opens the door and in rushes two St. Louis cops, a detective lieutenant named 282 00:24:46,390 --> 00:24:52,710 Lou Shoulders and his driver, a younger cop in his 20s named Elmer Dolan. We get 283 00:24:52,710 --> 00:24:57,750 a report of a suspicious character with a gun. 284 00:25:00,430 --> 00:25:03,550 He knew at that point the cab driver gave him up. 285 00:25:07,830 --> 00:25:09,870 They find keys for the luggage. 286 00:25:35,340 --> 00:25:36,340 The jig is up. 287 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:37,840 Let's go. 288 00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:39,700 Now I know what you're thinking. 289 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:43,960 Oh, thank goodness they found the kidnapper and now they can find Bobby. 290 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. 292 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,660 For seven days, we'd all been praying for the safe return of Bobby Greenleaf. 293 00:26:10,940 --> 00:26:14,580 We didn't know it then, but hundreds of miles away, a man had just been taken 294 00:26:14,580 --> 00:26:15,580 into custody. 295 00:26:15,940 --> 00:26:17,700 And he would have all the answers. 296 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:29,160 Steve Strand. 297 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:30,400 Is that right? 298 00:26:34,209 --> 00:26:38,450 Louis Shoulders was a 25 - to 30 -year -old veteran of the St. Louis Police 299 00:26:38,450 --> 00:26:43,270 Department, very street smart, had a number of informants. He was a feared 300 00:26:43,270 --> 00:26:44,270 on the street. 301 00:26:44,890 --> 00:26:47,770 That was an awful big trunk we found in your room there, Steve. 302 00:26:48,510 --> 00:26:50,230 Lots and lots and lots of money. 303 00:26:53,810 --> 00:26:54,990 What is it you say you do? 304 00:27:01,010 --> 00:27:02,010 Steve Strand. 305 00:27:02,350 --> 00:27:04,650 is going through severe alcoholic withdrawal. 306 00:27:05,270 --> 00:27:07,930 He hadn't had a drink for a number of hours. 307 00:27:10,390 --> 00:27:11,870 I found this in your room, too. 308 00:27:12,270 --> 00:27:15,630 Carl Austin Hall, insurance agent. 309 00:27:18,950 --> 00:27:19,950 Is that you? 310 00:27:29,930 --> 00:27:34,570 His symptoms of withdrawal became so severe that they brought in a nurse and 311 00:27:34,570 --> 00:27:37,170 injected him with an amphetamine. 312 00:27:38,110 --> 00:27:42,610 This was back in the days of the third -degree interrogations. There was no 313 00:27:42,610 --> 00:27:43,610 thing as Miranda warnings. 314 00:27:44,910 --> 00:27:48,210 Looking a little better there. You ready to tell me about what happened, Bobby? 315 00:27:49,050 --> 00:27:51,290 I don't know what you're talking about. Come on, Carl. 316 00:27:51,970 --> 00:27:52,970 Bobby Greenways. 317 00:27:53,530 --> 00:27:54,970 You know all about it. 318 00:27:56,110 --> 00:27:58,270 Huh? I didn't do anything. 319 00:27:58,730 --> 00:27:59,850 We know you did it, Carl. 320 00:28:06,990 --> 00:28:09,110 He knew it was all over. 321 00:28:12,470 --> 00:28:17,770 He admits that he's Carl Austin Hall and that he is the kidnapper. 322 00:28:21,290 --> 00:28:24,810 Carl Austin Hall was born into a wealthy family. 323 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,920 in Pleasanton, Kansas, about 50 miles south of Kansas City. 324 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,100 He was a rich kid. 325 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,360 He was sent away to military school. 326 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,200 He was a standout student for his first two years. 327 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:43,000 By his third year, though, he had discovered alcohol, and his life really 328 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. 330 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:50,720 Evaluations said that he was dishonest, and in fact, eventually was kicked out 331 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:51,629 of the school. 332 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 334 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. 337 00:29:18,110 --> 00:29:20,270 Drugs, booze, women. 338 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:21,960 Gambling. 339 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,080 And in five short years, the money was gone. 340 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. 345 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. 348 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:08,960 Bonnie. 349 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,200 Bonnie who? 350 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:13,360 Eddie. 351 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 358 00:31:08,230 --> 00:31:10,290 She was abused in her marriage. 359 00:31:10,850 --> 00:31:13,590 She began drinking, and she became a hooker. 360 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. 362 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 363 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? 366 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. 373 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:12,560 Where's 374 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:19,320 Bobby? 375 00:32:21,980 --> 00:32:23,320 It's not your fault. 376 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. 384 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 385 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. 41365

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