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Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. [3] Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered. December 1954 Unidentified 11-year-old girl John A ...
Robert Cosgrove Greenlease Jr. (February 3, 1947 – September 28, 1953) was a six-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, United States, who was the victim of a kidnapping and homicide on September 28, 1953.
1950s kidnappings in the United States (6 P) ... Murder of Bobby Greenlease; S. John Straffen This page was last edited on 9 November 2020, at 06:44 (UTC ...
September 28 – Six year old boy Bobby Greenlease is kidnapped in Kansas City, ... U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011; March 4 – Kay Lenz, actress;
For nearly three months 13-year-old Jayme Closs was held in a remote woodland cabin and often forced to hide beneath her kidnapper's bed.
A Crime to Remember is an American documentary television series that airs on Investigation Discovery and premiered on November 12, 2013. It tells the stories of notorious crimes that captivated attention of the media and the public when they occurred, such as the United Airlines Flight 629 bombing from 1955.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Crime list This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each case, including instances of celebrity abductions ...
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