About This Episode
What is this episode about?
The episode "True Crime Time For September 28, 2026 | The Bobby Greenlease" from Real Life Real Crime: Woody Overton's Investigator Podcast covers the 1953 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Robert "Bobby" Greenlease Jr. from his Kansas City school. Cyndi Overton, taking over this installment of True Crime Time For, begins with what was meant to be a brief "On This Day" note and ends up walking through the full FBI account of the case, from Bobby leaving school holding his kidnapper's hand to the executions of Bonnie Heady and Carl Hall. The segment also touches on the more than $300,000 in ransom money that was never recovered, a detail examined in depth on The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping.
Beyond the Greenlease case, the episode's recurring Family Matters segment covers Gary Crawford's life-plus-21-years sentence for murdering his 91-year-old stepfather in Arizona, and Mariah Thomas's 13-year sentence in Missouri after pleading guilty to child endangerment resulting in the death of her infant daughter. Cyndi also details the Florida conviction of plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski for the murder of attorney Steven Cozzi despite the body never being found, a Colorado dismemberment case, an Airbnb break-in shooting, an MRI technician accused of sexual assault, and Stephen Gress's guilty plea in the death of 16-year-old Miranda Corsett. The episode closes with an update on #JusticeForHailey for Hailey Johnson's family.
Hosts and release
Woody Overton and Cyndi Overton host this installment of Real Life Real Crime, released September 28, 2026, as episode 288 running 40 minutes. Listeners can find it and other episodes through Real Life Real Crime: Woody Overton's Investigator Podcast.
