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Hall next attached himself to John Hager, an ex-convict (bad checks) turned taxicab driver and pimp. When the kidnaper gave Hager an $18 tip, the cabbie was elated. "I knew I had a Good-Time Charl'e." he gloated. He took Hall to a hefty (176 Ibs.), blonde prostitute named Sandy O'Day, and the three drove to a motor court near St. Louis. Hall tossed $2,480 onto the bed for Hager who counted it and announced the total. Hall, to make it a round figure, added $20. Next morning Hager returned to the motel and picked up Sandy O'Day, who was about to leave for Kansas City, where she was later arrested. She told Hager of seeing a suitcase loaded with money. "There must be a million dollars back there," she said. "Then." said Hager, "I knew I did not have a Good-Time Charlie."
Hager was scared, so scared that he called St. Louis Police Lieut. Louis Shoulders, telling him: "I've got a guy that's really hot. He's throwing away money and lots of it. He's got a big gun, and he's drunk and on dope." With a patrolman. Shoulders went to the Town House, an apartment building where Hall had rented Room 303, and where he expected Hager to bring him another woman. The patrolman, following instructions from Hager, knocked three times and called: "Steve, this is Johnny." Hall unlatched the door and opened it. The cops shoved in, revolvers drawn.
Shoulders took a key from Hall's pocket and opened one of two suitcases in the room. It was filled with money. The policeman took Hall to the station, where Shoulders opened the second suitcase. When he saw the currency in it, he thought: "This has got to be the payoff on the Greenlease boy." He turned to Hall and said: "Now, mister, you're hooked. We know all about you." Replied Hall: "I know. I knew when you put that gun in my belly it was all up with me."
Hall confessed to the kidnaping, and told police where Bonnie Heady was. During Mrs. Heady's stay in the apartment, she had worried about her dog. Doc, left at the St. Joseph bungalow. She had called a St. Joseph veterinarian and asked him to take care of Doc, since she would be "tied up for a while." Caught by police (with $2,000 in her possession) and questioned, she admitted being the woman who had taken Bobby Greenlease from school. But she said she had not known it was a kidnaping. Hall, she claimed, had told her Bobby Greenlease was his son by a former marriage, and he just wanted a visit with the boy. Bonnie was willing to help because "I love him so much."
Carl Hall denied having killed Bobby. He said that another bum, a tattooed sex degenerate named Thomas John Marsh. 37, had shot the boy when Hall and Bonnie Heady were not around. Police were skeptical, but a nationwide alarm went out for Marsh's arrest.
An End of Lying. Meanwhile, a bullet had been found embedded in the floor mat of Mrs. Heady's station wagon. Ballistics tests proved the slug had been fired from the .38-caliber revolver found in Hall's room when he was arrested. Bloodstains, which Hall had tried to clean up, were also found in the station wagon.