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This file concerns the 1953 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Robert Greenlease, known as Bobby, in Kansas City, Missouri. The FBI investigated the interstate kidnapping and extortion case alongside the St. Louis Police Department after Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady were apprehended in St. Louis. The released material includes a summary report, a detailed table of contents, investigative chronology, evidence listings, and statements attributed to Hall and Heady. The records describe Hall's admissions concerning the abduction, ransom demands, recovery of ransom money, the child's death and burial in St. Joseph, Missouri, and the suspects' movements between Kansas City, St. Joseph, and St. Louis in October 1953.

FBI file number: ST 7-429 | Documents span: 1953 | Released in 3 parts
Names in this file: Robert Greenlease, Carl Austin Hall, Bonnie Heady, Jeremiah O'Connell, J. E. Thornton, Edwin J. Bean, Charles H. Thompson, Barney Patton, Tom Marsh
Subjects: kidnapping, extortion, ransom, murder investigation, FBI, St. Louis Police