Robert Cosgrove Bobby Greenlease

On the morning of September 28, 1953, in Kansas City, Missouri, a woman approached the Notre Dame de Sion school claiming to be the aunt of a student. She informed the nuns that the boy's mother had suffered a heart attack and that she needed to take him to the hospital immediately. The student was Robert Cosgrove 'Bobby' Greenlease Jr., a six-year-old White male whose father was a wealthy and prominent automobile dealer in the region. The nuns, trusting the woman’s urgent story, released the ...