Posted on 12/18/2020 2:36:03 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1953 — six months after the execution of a more notorious couple, the Rosenbergs — two Missouri kidnappers were gassed together for the abduction-murder of a millionaire car dealer’s son.
Robert Greenlease owed his millions to a string of midwestern GM dealerships planted at the very flowering of America’s interstate system and suburbanization.
Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady reckoned he’d owe some of those millions to them, too.
On September 28 of 1953, those two snatched little Bobby Greenlease Jr from the grounds of a Catholic school in Kansas City via the all-too-easy expedient of Heady presenting herself as Bobby’s aunt.
Then they extorted Sr. to the tune of $600,000, and after several days’ negotiations, Greenlease paid it through an intermediary — a record US ransom sum that would not be surpassed until 1971.
But the motor magnate never saw his son again. Even by the time they’d sent their first ransom note, the kidnappers had shot little Bobby dead at a deserted farm just over the state line in Kansas....
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This blog is gay.
It's like the Mayor Pete of blogs.
Sounds like the original movie ‘Fargo’
“On September 28 of 1953, those two snatched little Bobby Greenlease Jr...”
Were they really executed less than 3 months after the crime?
They both pled guilty, thus no lengthy appeals process.
They committed a federal crime.
Most executions back then, federal or state, occurred within two years of conviction.
In Commifornia you’ll get the death sentence...and die of old age.
And you’re the Liberace of posting critizers.
Careful with those sequins.
Humblegunner provides a valuable service to FR, IMHO, although I disagree with him about this particular blog. I happen to enjoy the articles from it.
He’s a Karen, and provides NO useful service.
LOL
As for Hall and Heady, they emerged into the glare of national infamy and — because they had crossed the Kansas-Missouri state line — a federal prosecution. Heady remains to this day the last woman executed under U.S. federal auspices.
Heres hoping Hillary and Pelosi breaks that streak.
It has been suggested by some that we petition Jim Robinson to pledge a special 25 dollar a head or so donation to FR if he agrees to permanently ban Humblegunner if we get something like a thousand in pledges.
If doublebummer is banned, who will protect us from clicking threads that might not meet his approval?
Don’t we need a self-annointed leader to tell us what is proper to read, and to rule on what is appropriate for grown-ass adults to post in a public forum?
We can’t be expected to decide those things for ourselves! It’s madness!
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