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Faced with this evidence. Hall and Mrs. Heady, six days after their arrest, stopped lying. They admitted taking Bobby Greenlease across the Missouri state line into Kansas to a spot twelve miles east of Kansas City. There Hall, in the presence of Mrs. Heady, shot the boy. At the murder site, FBI agents found a mechanical pencil which Bobby's father had given him. Hall cleared Tom Marsh, still unfound. of any part in the crime. Hall disclosed the most grisly detail of the whole horrifying crime, one of the worst in U.S. history. He said that the grave had been dug and the quicklime bought before the boy was kidnaped.
This cleared up the case, except for the whereabouts of some $300,000 of ransom money, for which police are still searching. After confessing. Hall sank into a sullen silence, and Mrs. Heady asked for a pencil so she could work a crossword puzzle. The request was refused because she was classed as a "maximum security prisoner." So she settled down with a comic book: Intimate Love. Hall was being kept in solitary confinement, so that other prisoners would not harm him.
Years ago, Carl Hall had told the postmaster of Pleasanton: "My hands are white as lilies—and you'll never see a callus on them." In his way, he had kept his promise.
* Mistakenly identified by the FBI as a gun moll of the same name, who in 1935 slipped a pistol through the bars of her desperado husband's cell, thereby aiding in his break from the Muskogee, Okla. jail'.