Both of these Bobbies were kidnap and murder victims.
Greenlease's case, back in 1953, was done on "A Crime To Remember," Season Two, back on December 30, 2014, in the episode titled, "Baby, Come Home." He didn't. Too real pieces of scum. Carl Hall and Bonnie Head--she being the fattest and ugliest prostitute in the history of the world's oldest profession--hey maybe chubby chasers went for her!!!!!!!--arrived at Bobby's parochial school in Kansas City, posing as his uncle and aunt--and the nun' bought the story! Off he went, and was dead by a gun in his head! Sick! His parents should have sued their Catholic diocese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The whole thing was chronicled in a book I read, back in 2009, called, "Zero At The Bone--The Playboy, The Prostitute, And The Murder Of Bobby Greenlease," by John Heidenry. That Bonnie Head; she might have given head professionally, but she was as ugly, sadistic and repulsive as Martha Beck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, Bobby Franks might not be a known name either, but his killers are--Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Books have been written, movies and plays, even a musical, called "Thrill Me!," wherein the authors of the piece (or maybe just one of them) played the killers. I actually saw it. In any case, I have read and seen much of the literature based on this case, which, again, paints Chicago in a bad light, and only a Raving Queen like I knew that the 1959 film of Meyer Levin's novel and play, "Compulsion," featured Diane Varsi--Diane Varsi!!!!!!!--as a school girl. The role caused her to retire from the screen for nine years, when, in 1968, she made a mistaken return to the screen as Sally Le Roy, ex-child star, in AIP's "Wild In The Streets!"
So, I am a little surprised to discover that it took "A Crime To Remember" this long to tackle one of the most memorable criminal cases in last century's history. Much as I love the Alice Crimmins case, she is less remembered than Loeb and Leopold.
What, I wondered, could I have learned about the case from this, after all having gone before? People still speak of the duo's homosexual relationship as if it were the most shocking thing imaginable, as if Bobby's killing had something to do with that.
You know how I have warned you about great big old closet cases, darlings??????? Well, that is what these two were! They were young, their hormones raging, so they experimented on one another. Clearly, Loeb was the top, and Leopold the bottom? Did they ride bareback? I don't want to see that, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Leopold eventually was released--a mistake!--married, and supposedly lived an exemplary life, dying in 1971. His lover, Richard Loeb, was murdered in prison, by an inmate, in 1936. The murder occurred on May 21, 1924, when Loeb was 18, and Leopold 19.
What last night's broadcast, titled "Hearts Of Darkness," made me realize, was that, had they gotten away with it, as they expected, the two would have outgrown each other, and absorbed into straight society, much as Parker and Hulme did, in Australia. These two guys again point out the dangers of closet cases. And to choose a family member--Bobby Franks was Richard Loeb's second cousin, and lived across the street from him--speaks of some kind of pathology. Hey, I may have family I do not like, but I would never set them up as murder victims!!!!!!!!!!
Since they were closet cases, they were probably Republicans!
Another reason to avoid those who remain silent on the love whose name has every right to be spoken.
Have a flaming good time, fellas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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