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Bobby Greenlease kidnapping... Killers executed...
Bobby Greenlease kidnapping... Killers executed...
Item # 723020
December 18, 1953
MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Dec. 18, 1953
* Bobby Greenlease kidnapping - executions
* Carl Austin Hall & Bonnie Emily Brown Heady
The top of the front page is a four column headline: "Greenlease Killers Die in Gas Chamber, Silent to the End" with subhead and photos. (see images)
Complete with 36 pages, light toning at the margins, a few small ink notations throughout, generally in very nice condition.
AI notes: 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.
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