Career
Seadlund killed Ross and his accomplice James Atwood Gray to pocket ransom money, he was charged for kidnapping Ross. Seadlund was not tried for murder by the state of Illinois, but for kidnapping by the Federal Court. Because at this time kidnapping was a federal capital offense he received death sentence and was put to death by electric chair in Cook County Jail, Chicago, Illinois.
Seadlund was the seventh federal inmate executed under administration of President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt and, as of 2008, last person executed in Illinois on federal warrant.