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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.
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.
Pages in category "Kidnapping in the 1950s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. ... Murder of Bobby Greenlease; S. John Straffen
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 ...
Kidnapping and murder December 18, 1953 Missouri State Penitentiary, Jefferson City, Missouri: Convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease. Bonnie Emily Heady: Kidnapping and murder Gerhard Puff: Electrocution Murder of a federal officer August 12, 1954 New York State Prison, Sing Sing, Ossining, New York Killed an FBI Special Agent.
Jack McCullough, who changed his name from John Tessier, as he was known around the time of Maria's 1957 kidnapping and murder, was released from an Illinois prison in 2016, ending a nearly five ...
"American Nightmare" victims Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn worked with two small-town law enforcement officials to get kidnapper Matthew Muller to confess to more cold case crimes.
December 18 – Carl Hall and Bonnie Brown are both executed in the Missouri gas chamber after pleading guilty to the Murder and kidnapping of six year old Bobby Greenlease; [5] she is the third woman in history (and last until 2021) to be executed by federal authorities.