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Terror in the Heartland: The Bobby Greenlease Kidnapping

By | November 12, 2019 | 0
Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Heady, convicted in the kidnapping and murder of Bobby Greenlease.

Much of the twisty, grizzly story behind the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping has never been fully told. And one key element of Kansas City’s crime of the century remains tantalizingly unresolved.

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Finding the Heart of the Kansas City Metro Area

By | November 6, 2019 | 0
Man standing next to a sign that says "The Center of Population of the United States"

curiousKC goes in search of the population center of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Taco Bell’s Seven Layers of Mystery

By | October 21, 2019 | 0
The Taco Bell restaurant on Linwood Boulevard in Kansas City.

Flatland’s curiousKC team explores whether Kansas City is home of the first enclosed Taco Bell restaurant.

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Big Tree “A Living Monument” in Old Northeast

By | October 16, 2019 | 0
Photo of couple from 2002 and Ben Jones in 2019

After Ben Jones moved into a house in Northeast Kansas City, he

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Bringing Out the Dead: The Great Stockyard Fire of 1917

By | October 14, 2019 | 0
The aftermath of the West Bottoms stockyard fire of 1917.

One of the biggest agricultural disasters in Kansas City history occurred in 1917, when a fire scorched the stockyard in the West Bottoms, leaving thousands of dead cattle and hogs charred in its wake.

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