Word: ledterman
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Receipt Delayed. Robert Ledterman and Norbert O'Neill, business associates of Bobby's father, made two abortive efforts to deliver the ransom to Hall. The first time his instructions were too confused to follow. Next, the cash-filled duffel bag was dropped off in a rural spot, but Hall telephoned to say that he had not found it. Ledterman and O'Neill went back and retrieved...
...third call," Ledterman said, "came early one morning. The caller said another call would be made to us ~at 11 a.m. At that hour, I was told another call would be made at 8 o'clock that night. At 8, the same man called and instructed me to go to a certain telephone booth in a hotel to await another call. At 11:30 o'clock that night, the call came in. The man was very jittery. He told me where to go and deposit the money...
Thirty-five minutes later, Ledterman and O'Neill left the duffel bag at the end of a highway bridge in a heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
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