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Prison City Murders – Case 24 Part 2 – Bonnie and Carl



11:00 am, September 28th, 1953. Kansas City, Missouri.

A taxi pulls up to the French Institute at Notre Dame de Sion, an exclusive private elementary school, located in the fashionable Hyde Park section of Kansas City. A respectable-looking 40-ish woman steps out of the cab, asks the driver to wait, and rings the bell at the front door of the school. The French nun in charge of welcoming visitors, Sister Morand, is a kind soul who immediately senses the uneasiness in the woman and lets her in the door. The woman relates that her sister, Mrs. Virginia Greenlease, has just suffered a heart attack. She needs to pick up her 6-year-old nephew, Bobby, to go to the hospital. Bobby is fetched from his first-grade Latin class. The woman takes his hand. They walk out of the school and get into the waiting cab.

Not long after, Mother Marthanna, the principal of the school, returns to her office and is told about Mrs. Greenlease. She asks what hospital, but Sister Morand is not sure. Mother Marthanna calls the Greenlease home and is surprised when Mrs. Greenlease answers the phone herself.

“How are you feeling?” she blurts out. “Why just fine,” says Virginia Greenlease. “Why do you ask?”

And so, for the Greenlease family, the nightmare begins.

Thanks for listening to Part 1 of ‘Bonnie and Carl. Part 2 will be up shortly. Please subscribe to Prison City Murders and tell your friends about the podcast. It would be wonderful If you could leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. There’s a place to comment below, and you can also email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com.

Thank you so much for listening and until next time (part 2 soon — I promise), please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

SOURCES

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/greenlease-kidnapping

https://archive.org/details/GreenleaseKidnapping/page/n7

Newsreel:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=2F54844486057568460C2F54844486057568460C&FORM=VIRE

Terror in the Heartland

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA&FORM=VIRE

Murder Sites

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=4C732D541866D91702044C732D541866D9170204&FORM=VIRE

Deadly Women (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

https://www.forbes.com/2011/01/18/americas-most-affluent-communities-business-beltway_slide.html#879ee80772ad

https://www.newspressnow.com/multimedia/videos/news/tales_of_the_midland_empire/hotel-robidoux/video_548e9a7d-b4f1-5302-a77a-830f76bf584d.html

Home

https://www.kansascity.com

https://www.stltoday.com

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://newspaperarchive.com

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/


Prison City Murders – Case 24 Part 1 – Bonnie and Carl



11:00 am, September 28th, 1953. Kansas City, Missouri.

A taxi pulls up to the French Institute at Notre Dame de Sion, an exclusive private elementary school, located in the fashionable Hyde Park section of Kansas City. A respectable-looking 40-ish woman steps out of the cab, asks the driver to wait, and rings the bell at the front door of the school. The French nun in charge of welcoming visitors, Sister Morand, is a kind soul who immediately senses the uneasiness in the woman and lets her in the door. The woman relates that her sister, Mrs. Virginia Greenlease, has just suffered a heart attack. She needs to pick up her 6-year-old nephew, Bobby, to go to the hospital. Bobby is fetched from his first-grade Latin class. The woman takes his hand. They walk out of the school and get into the waiting cab.

Not long after, Mother Marthanna, the principal of the school, returns to her office and is told about Mrs. Greenlease. She asks what hospital, but Sister Morand is not sure. Mother Marthanna calls the Greenlease home and is surprised when Mrs. Greenlease answers the phone herself.

“How are you feeling?” she blurts out. “Why just fine,” says Virginia Greenlease. “Why do you ask?”

And so, for the Greenlease family, the nightmare begins.

Thanks for listening to Part 1 of ‘Bonnie and Carl. Part 2 will be up shortly. Please subscribe to Prison City Murders and tell your friends about the podcast. It would be wonderful If you could leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. There’s a place to comment below, and you can also email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com.

 

Thank you so much for listening and until next time (part 2 soon — I promise), please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

SOURCES

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/greenlease-kidnapping

https://archive.org/details/GreenleaseKidnapping/page/n7

Newsreel:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=2F54844486057568460C2F54844486057568460C&FORM=VIRE

Terror in the Heartland

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA9A0FECD39A4B16D080EA&FORM=VIRE

Murder Sites

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+bobby+greenlease&view=detail&mid=4C732D541866D91702044C732D541866D9170204&FORM=VIRE

Deadly Women (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319260/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

https://www.forbes.com/2011/01/18/americas-most-affluent-communities-business-beltway_slide.html#879ee80772ad

https://www.newspressnow.com/multimedia/videos/news/tales_of_the_midland_empire/hotel-robidoux/video_548e9a7d-b4f1-5302-a77a-830f76bf584d.html

https://chicagodailynews.net

https://www.kansascity.com

https://www.stltoday.com

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://newspaperarchive.com

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/


Prison City Murders – Case 23 – Ghost from the Past



Listeners, I checked the audio on all the platforms I could think of. So… I think everything is ok now.  Sorry about that.  (I guess I’ll have to dock my pay:)) Thanks for your patience. 

9:15 pm, November 15, 2013. Valley Center, Kansas.

A 911 call comes into Sedgewick County Emergency Communications from the quiet Wichita, Kansas, suburb of Valley Center. The caller is the 16-year-old son of Melissa and Roger Bluml. He reports that he parked behind his parents’ pickup truck in the driveway of their home. He notices that the driver’s side door is open slightly.

“Oh, my god…I just opened up the car and there’s blood everywhere.”

Thanks for listening. Please leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. You can comment on the cases below and email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. 

Until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

Sources

Wichita Eagle: https://www.kansascity.com

Snapped (on Oxygen) Episode 12, Season 25:

https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/anthony-bluml-kisha-schaberg-murder-adoptive-parents

911 call: https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/season-25/videos/snapped-christopher-bluml-calls-911-season-25-episode-12

KSN TV (Wichita)

KAKE TV: (Wichita) https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bluml+murders&view=detail&mid=FA1C96607650599A4C73FA1C96607650599A4C73&FORM=VIRE

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/


Prison City Murders – Case 22 – Weaponized Rattlesnakes



Around Midnight, Saturday, June 29th, 1974. Rural Gray County, Western, Kansas.

Gray County Sheriff Marvin Kramer, nicknamed “Squirt,” is out on patrol when he hears a call for the Ensign, Kansas, volunteer fire department to respond to a fire at the farm of Richard and Clara Ann Anton. Sheriff Kramer rushes to the scene. By 12:40 a. m., Sunday morning, the Anton farmhouse is engulfed in flames. When the blaze is extinguished, the home is burned to the ground. In the ashes of the basement, two bodies are found, presumably Richard and Clara Ann.

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Thank you so much for listening and until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

Sources

“Harvest of Hate” by Kermit Jaedeker in The New York Daily News, February 1, 1976.

          Accessed on www.newspapers.com

Truman Capote: In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons, Answered Prayers

https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Blood-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745580

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Chameleons-Truman-Capote/dp/0679745661/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hand+carved+coffins&qid=1578089884&s=books&sr=1-2

https://www.amazon.com/Answered-Prayers-Truman-Capote/dp/0679751823/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=truman+capote+answered+prayers&qid=1578089981&sr=8-1

http://markmaynard.com/2019/04/truman-capotes-silent-rattlesnakes-and-the-hoax-behind-hand-carved-coffins/

https://hqinfo.blogspot.com/2006/07/truman-capote-truth-and-lies.html

http://reprints.longform.org/hoax-truman-capote-secret London Times, Peter and Leni Gillman

https://ota.fas.org/reports/8320.pdf

https://www.salina.com/

https://www.parsonssun.com/

https://www.gctelegram.com/

https://www.kansas.com/              Wichita Eagle-Beacon

https://www.doc.ks.gov/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

TIPS: kbi.ks.gov and 1-800-KS-CRIME.