64: The Kidnap & Murder of Bobby Greenlease w/ John Heidenry - A True Crime History Podcast
Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast
Erik Rivenes
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2017
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃ |
| 0:30.0 | ʃcən ʃən ʃəni ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃlən ʃə8 ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃən ʃək |
| 1:00.0 | Louis literary supplement penthouse forum and Maxim magazine among others. He's written a bunch of |
| 1:06.4 | books and the one we're talking about today is called Zero to the Bone, the Playboy, the prostitute, |
| 1:12.0 | and the murder of Bobby Greenleese. I appreciate your time today sir. |
| 1:17.5 | Sure. So how did you first become interested in this case? |
| 1:22.7 | Well, in 1953 I was living in St. Louis, half-blocked up the alley of my home. |
| 1:31.7 | At the other end of that alley was the Newsted Police Station. And one day I was walking along the |
| 1:39.2 | street, Newsted Street, and I saw this huge crowd of reporters and onlookers and wondered what |
| 1:46.8 | was going on. I was unaware that until my parents told me later that inside where the two |
| 1:54.1 | most famous criminals probably at that moment in the entire United States, the kidnapping of a boy |
| 2:02.7 | in Kansas City named Bobby Greenleese. Bobby Greenleese had been the son of a very wealthy |
| 2:11.2 | Cadillac dealer. He owned not only one dealership at Kansas City, but several all throughout the |
| 2:18.1 | Southwest and supplied Cadillacs to Cadillac dealerships all over the place. He was rumored at one |
| 2:24.2 | time to be one of the 10 wealthiest men in the country. And of course I didn't really know too |
| 2:31.2 | much beyond that except that a few days later my father, who was a bookseller, took my brothers, |
| 2:38.4 | I had two brothers and myself and they took us out to a wooded area. And he said that the |
| 2:44.6 | ransom had been paid according to the newspapers of $600,000, which in today's terms would be more |
| 2:52.6 | than 10 million. And the case was kind of being compared to the Lindbergh kidnapping |
| 2:59.8 | in terms of coverage by the newspapers and even television which was just beginning. |
| 3:07.6 | So my father said I knew where a half of the money was missing, half of the ransom money was |
| 3:12.2 | missing. And my father said I have a feeling I know where that money is. Well my father was also |
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