History has a way of repeating itself and intertwining itself linking people and events; the kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, Jr. was one such event that came to people’s memory after watching the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping on national television.
Juanita Wenz, former historical researcher and employee of the Trading Post Museum, called the Linn County News to inquire why a recent editorial that listed 13 of the top kidnapping events in America didn’t include the kidnapping of Robert Greenlease, Jr. She outlined that the kidnapping had many local ties to Linn County, and Pleasanton, more so than any of the other kidnappings mentioned in the editorial.
Wenz began weaving the story of the boy’s abduction and murder and said Greenlease’s murderer, Carl Austin Hall, was from Pleasanton, Kan.
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