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

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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.

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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

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