THE DETROIT NEWS, Oct. 12, 1953

• Bobby Greenlease kidnapping & killing confessions
• Carl Austin Hall & Bonnie Emily Brown Heady

The top of the front page is a nice banner headline: "SLEW BOBBY, PAIR ADMIT! DUG GRAVE BEFORE CRIME" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 40 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in nice condition.

Background:The killers of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease—Carl Austin Hall Jr. and Bonnie Emily Heady—were executed on December 18, 1953, in the Missouri State Penitentiary gas chamber at Jefferson City, bringing a swift and dramatic end to one of the most notorious kidnapping cases in American history. Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer, was abducted from his Catholic school on November 5, 1953, murdered almost immediately by Hall, and buried on his family’s estate in St. Joseph, Missouri, despite a ransom demand of $600,000. The crime shocked the nation not only for its brutality but also for the speed of justice: Hall and Heady were arrested within days, confessed, pleaded guilty in federal court, and were sentenced to death less than two weeks after the crime. Their execution—just 42 days after the kidnapping—remains one of the fastest capital punishments carried out in U.S. history, reflecting the era’s intense public outrage and the federal government’s determination to make an example of the case.