Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease

"This true crime caper by Heidenry . . . of a 1953 Kansas child kidnapping gone bad carries a solid punch." —Publishers Weekly

In 1953, six-year-old Bobby Greenlease, the son of a wealthy Kansas City automobile dealer and his wife, was kidnapped from his Roman Catholic elementary school by a woman named Bonnie Heady, a well-scrubbed prostitute who was posing as one of his distant aunts. Her accomplice, Carl Austin Hall, a former playboy who had run through his inheritance and was just out o...