The kidnapping happened but a mile from where my office now stands.
A new suspect emerges!
Even if I were sadisitic enough to travel time and space to kidnap a child for ranson, with inflation the ransom money would be just enough for me to pay barely half of my student loans.
I believe that the Staties in NJ were right: Hauppman did it. A failing business, a history of odd, self-obsessed behavior, an inability to "hold it together" during questioning, etc. I don't think that he really wanted to kill the kid, but that he snapped and panicked when the NJSP got closer to him.