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Posted on 06/12/2012 4:50:52 PM PDT by Robwin
Through some incredibly persistent sleuthing, consultation with specialists in modern criminal investigative analysis, and a good dose of luck, author Robert Zorn has solved what has been correctly called “the crime of the century”: the Lindbergh kidnapping.
And so the [Hauptmann] case ended with as many questions open as answered, all of which are laid out in Cemetery John with precision. And then, with new evidence and equal precision, the author proceeds to answer each one.
According to this book review which appeared on the Daily Caller the full details are now available and the case has been solved.
The reviewer is also quite keen on this work. Some examples: The author has kept that promise [to his father]in a book both judicious and gripping. The term “page turner” is used too frequently, but Cemetery John is just that. Once you start reading it, you will not stop. This book should be on the top of everyone’s summer reading list. You won’t be disappointed.
Sounds like a good read to me and about a most interesting subject.
When we were pulling up the carpet after a flood in our Victorian house, there was linoleum tile under the carpet. Under the tile, there were newspapers from 1936 that covered the Lindburgh baby kidnapping in detail. Fascinating read.
Don’t anybody spoil the ending for me. I haven’t read the book yet.
Bush did it...
The Lindbergh kidnaping is about the only thing Obama hasn’t blamed Bush for.
It's early still in another election season . . .
That's the Libs October surprise.
I am happy for the author to get his book published and hope that the effort gets the reward that it deserves BUT no book, no research EVER satisfies all conspiracy mavens. There is a dark corner in all informed people's psyche that says 'BUT' and nothing will ever quiet that 'BUT' universally.
We like our conspiracies and will never put them down until the vey story disappears into the depths of time. Remember how Hatshepsut becoming Pharaoh? Now that is a real conspiracy ... if you care.
However on the original topic, one of the most eye-raising facts about this story is the change in our legal system. The convicted kidnapper, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, had a six week trial in 1935 and 14 months later was executed. Think of the OJ Simpson trial for comparison 60 years later that took 8 months plus. Now add the fact that today the average execution is carried out about 20 years following the verdict. This disparity is hugh!
My grandad was a reporter for the Journal-American and the first on the scene, even beat the police there. He saw Lindbergh with a flashlight and a shotgun stalking from the area below the window, with murder in his eyes...
The truth is already out on Sacco & Vanzetti. In a book I have on Italian-American anarchism, it is quite clear that they were both involved in the payroll murder. One pulling the trigger, the other helping to finance it. They were moving around dynamite and other explosives the night they were arrested (not getting rid of anarchist “literature.”) One of their cronies was responsible for the horrific attack on Wall St. in 1919. Vanzetti may have killed a priest in the mid-West during WWI. They were two miserable thugs.
Oh, and Hauptmann did it!
The truth is already out on Sacco & Vanzetti. In a book I have on Italian-American anarchism, it is quite clear that they were both involved in the payroll murder. One pulling the trigger, the other helping to finance it. They were moving around dynamite and other explosives the night they were arrested (not getting rid of anarchist “literature.”) One of their cronies was responsible for the horrific attack on Wall St. in 1919. Vanzetti may have killed a priest in the mid-West during WWI. They were two miserable thugs.
Oh, and Hauptmann did it!
The actual kidnapping and death occurred in 1932 not 1936. Bruno Hauptman was executed for the crime in 1936.
Wow! Your grandfather covered the Lindbergh Baby case! I read the Journal-American as a little kid in it’s last few years before it went under. Great paper. Anything else your grandfather said about the case?
It was an inside job! The butler did it.
Some interesting stories. The nursery’s 2nd story window was open so they couldn’t get Bruno on breaking in. But he had to un-clip some safety pins holding the blanket over the baby. That got him him a breaking and entering charge. My parents had some (business) contact with Hauptman’s widow, years later. She swore her husband was innocent. The story was they had a German visitor who grabbed the child, dropped him by accident, killing him and burying the body, getting the ransom money and leaving the country before things got too hot.
I always thought Hauptman was as guilty as hell. I do remember that the window was open and that a handmade ladder was pressed against the house. The wood of the ladder matched wood in Hauptman’s garage, I believe. I know his widow carried on for years claiming he was innocent and getting some pretty famous people to believe her, too. I ain’t buyin’.
Anyway, how cool to have a granddad who witnessed the “Trial of the Century.”
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I read Anne Lindbergh’s autobiography and there is just an overwhelming sadness in it. The pages on the kidnapping and its aftermath are quite sad, and, as I recall, she spends the remainder of the book writing about her efforts to learn resignation and acceptance.
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