Posted on 06/19/2024 7:09:16 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date in 1936 marks the first and only occasion that the federal government hanged a (non-murdering) kidnapper under the Lindbergh Law.
Even before the notorious Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, the “snatch racket” of kidnappings for ransom had claimed a firm foothold among Depression-era America’s moral panics. The bill that would become known as the Lindbergh Law was actually introduced in Congress three months before little Charles Lindbergh, Jr. disappeared out the window of his New Jersey nursery. Its sponsors were Missouri lawmakers concerned that gang-ridden St. Louis was becoming a kidnapping hub, like the high-profile 1931 abduction of Dr. Isaac Kelley.*
The theory behind the bill — and this was particularly relevant to St. Louis, a border port right across from Illinois and accessible via the Mississippi River to the whole Midwest — was that kidnappers could more easily ply their nefarious trade by carrying their hostages over a convenient border and exploiting the respective states’ inability to coordinate with one another. By elevating interstate kidnapping to a federal felony, the idea was to put manhunts into the hands of the FBI, whose jurisdiction was the entire United States.....
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ive read chuck was a total ahole.
visited his frave site , at a little church just outside hana maui
grave site
Frequently highly focused men are jerks, Edison was another.
He was a patsy.
Some people who might be taken for autistic or narcissistic (Steve Jobs) may also have that condition. Edison and Einstein also may have been OCD or OCPD. Another article. Cited as evidence for Einstein's OCD: a compulsion to keep checking if he had turned off all the lights. Not a joke.
Every kidnapper should be hanged, even if the victim is recovered unharmed. It’s a vile crime.
".... Missouri judge Rush Limbaugh, Sr. — grandfather of the present-day talk radio blowhard. ...."
Jerk!
Then what have kidnappers got to lose by murdering the victim?
They won’t gain anything by murdering the victim either. Hang them either way.
Less chance of being identified if you kill your victim
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Less chance of anyone being kidnapped to begin with if every kidnapper gets executed.
...Gooch...!
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