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Bobby's kidnapping and murder scandalized the nation. Because he had been taken over state lines, the crime became a federal case under the Federal Kidnapping Act. Hall and Heady both pleaded guilty to kidnapping. The jury deliberated an hour and eight minutes before recommending a death sentence.
Greenlease was kidnapped and immediately murdered. The murderers demanded and were paid a $600,000 ransom by the boy's father, a wealthy automobile dealer. [3] Notable in the case was the fact that more than half of the ransom money was stolen by a corrupt police officer and never recovered. December 1954 Unidentified 11-year-old girl John A ...
The 1953 arrest of Carl Austin Hall, who briefly checked into the Coral Court on October 6, 1953 after fleeing Kansas City in the aftermath of the Bobby Greenlease abduction and murder, [5] brought notoriety; while he and an accomplice were sentenced to death, only half of the $600,000 ransom was ever recovered. [6]
A grand jury indictment filed by the Circuit Court of Douglas County on Wednesday charges Bobby Lee Banks with the murder, kidnapping and rape of an unnamed woman on June 30, 1989. The date listed ...
Myshon Jackson, 22, is charged in the February 2021 killing of Omar White, 26 of Virginia.
“I am sending a message,” said a South Carolina judge as she sentenced the defendants in the Midlands slaying to a collective 185 years in prison.
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In an unrelated case, a judge sentenced Leonard in 2000 to life in prison in connection with the abduction, rape, and attempted murder of a 13-year-old girl in Virginia, according to a summary of ...