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Prison City Murders – The Devil’s Kitchen – Part 1 – Case 25



March 10th, 1873.  Southeastern Kansas.

In 1873, there are many ways to die on the road between Independence, Kansas, and Fort Scott, Kansas. The Osage Trail is a dangerous one. Never mind natural dangers – unforgiving terrain, tornados, blizzards, rattlesnakes — this area has a well-earned reputation for harboring outlaws and raiders from nearby Indian Territory. Lately, settlers are especially jumpy. For the past couple of years, a surprising number of people have disappeared while traveling the Osage Trail. Even seasoned settlers – used to the dangers of the Old West – are becoming uneasy. Remains of murdered men have turned up on the prairie. There is talk of forming a ‘vigilance committee.’

Matters come to a head when Dr. William York, the brother of a prominent Kansas State Senator goes missing on March 10th, 1873, on his way home from Fort Scott.

The Fort Scott Daily Monitor: “The trace of him is lost at Big Hill, or Drum Creek, where it is more than probable he was foully murdered to get possession of his horse and other property which he might have had about him. The locality where he disappeared is a notorious one, this not being the first event of a similar kind that has transpired in the neighborhood.”


SOURCES

https://www.amazon.com/Bender-Tragedy-Mary-York/dp/1981809171

 

http://leatherockhotel.com/BloodyBenders.htm#Thumbnails

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

History of Labette County, Kansas (1901)

https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette00case/page/74/mode/2up

https://dailyjournalonline.com

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015484/1873-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/

https://www.murderpedia.com

https://www.kansasmemory.org/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

The Bender Tragedy by Mary York

 


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/