SEQUELS: Routine Gone Wrong

"It was just routine," said St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders a month ago as he modestly shrugged off the praise heaped on him for his arrest of Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady, the kidnapers and killers of little Bobby Greenlease (TIME, Oct. 19). But FBI agents began to suspect that something had gone wrong with routine as they searched for some $300,000 still unrecovered of the $600,000 Greenlease ransom.

Why, asked the agents, did nearly an hour elapse between Hall's arrest and the time he was booked at the police...

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