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Bonnie Emily Heady
1912 โ December 18, 1953Convicted 1953
Buried at:
Oak Grove Cemetery , Paducah, Kentucky ยท Right side of the road, right-hand section (documented on Find a Grave)
Criminal History (Public Record)
Convicted of first-degree murder (and kidnapping) for her role in the September 1953 abduction of Bobby Greenlease from a Kansas City school. The child was murdered shortly after the kidnapping. A $600,000 ransom was paid. Heady and Hall were arrested in St. Joseph, Missouri. Both were executed by gas chamber in Missouri on December 18, 1953.
Background
Bonnie Emily Brown Heady was an American woman convicted in one of the most notorious kidnapping-murder cases of the 1950s. She participated with Carl Austin Hall in the abduction and killing of 6-year-old Robert "Bobby" Greenlease Jr. in Kansas City, Missouri.
Contemporary Kansas City and national news coverage of the 1953 abduction, ransom, and executions
FBI historical case files on the Greenlease kidnapping
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