The reason was simple: To make a case against Lindbergh, they also had to exonerate Hauptmann. After all, he had the money. The job of analyzing the trial fell to Ahlgren.
During his career he had defended people like Hauptmann, who were too poor to pay for their defense. When he went through the record, Ahlgren was appalled by what he found. Although at the time of his arrest there was no further evidence linking Hauptmann to the murder, the police decided that he was the killer. The trial was a media circus. Reilly often showed up for trial with a hangover. The defense had almost no money for expert witnesses and no access to police records, both of which would be standard practice today.
Throughout the proceedings, Lindbergh sat at the prosecution table with a holstered pistol under his arm. One, who had just been fired from his job for stealing company funds, had been unable to identify Hauptmann in a photographic lineup and misdescribed his car prior to the trial. Another was 87 years old and partially blind.
The third testified that he had seen Hauptmann lurking about Hopewell on two separate occasions and that he had reported this to the police. Later he admitted to Hoffmann that his testimony was due in part to a desire to share in the reward money.
In retrospect, Ahlgren identified nine factors of evidence that ultimately sent Hauptmann to the electric chair. The most important may have been the money. If the defense had admitted his involvement in the extortion attempt, they would have eliminated most of the testimony against him. Instead they had all these witnesses who made Hauptmann look like a liar about the money. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed on April 3, Even if Hauptmann was innocent, was Lindbergh cold enough to let another man die in the electric chair?
The authors think he was. What they needed was an eyewitness who could place Lindbergh in Hopewell early in the evening on March 1, They began to hunt for Ben Lupica.
In Lupica was a Princeton Academy high school student living near Hopewell. A few hours before the kidnapping, he was passed by a man on the road with a ladder in his car. The prosecution never called him as a witness. Ahlgren was troubled. But where to find him? No Ben Lupicas were listed in the phone book, and Princeton Academy no longer existed.
Ahlgren wondered if Princeton Academy could have been a prep school for Princeton University? It was a long shot that paid off.
Ben Lupica was now a retired chemist still alive in upstate New York. Despite the dozens of books and articles written about the case, no one had interviewed him since the trial. Through his wife, he agreed to meet with them.
He was retrieving the mail when an oncoming car with New Jersey plates pulled over to its left on the narrow dirt road to pass him. The lone driver was wearing a fedora. The other car with a distinctive grille and no hood ornament was a Franklin, the same car Lindbergh drove. Not all the reactions were positive. Reeve Lindbergh, a year-old writer living in northern Vermont, thought the book was a cruel attack on her parents. Geoffrey C. In the meantime, Ahlgren and Monier have received letters and calls from the descendants of domestic help and bluecollar workers from around Hopewell.
Most, like the daughter of an airplane mechanic, claim that their parents had told them over the years that Lindbergh was somehow involved in the death of his son. Lindbergh did it. They know the case may never be resolved. There are just too many unanswered questions. Ahlgren believes they could get an indictment against Lindbergh based on their research.
Still, both have come to look at their own roles in the criminal justice system in a new light. I realized that the last chapter on a public figure is never fully complete. The master of deception Dr.
I accidentally ran into this story today after thinking about the Linberg case over the weekend. I think I have read every book and I think I even have all of the Lindburg books that are available.
This is just preliminary for me to explain what my thinking is. Some people on the weekend had been talking about the JonBenet Ramsey case and how more than likely someone from the home mother father or son accidentally or deliberately hurt her. I feel a good father should protect his son by telling the truth. While I was thinking about this the oddest thought crept into my mind. It dawned on me like a lightning bolt that perhaps Travis Lindbergh had something to do with his sons disappearance and death.
He was just regarded as Lyndys son and perhaps that provoked the father to seek revenge on a child who might steal his thunder. I had always assumed that it was Hellman perhaps alone perhaps with another but I had never thought of it as anything involving the Linberg family. The babies body was found very close to the house they lived in and that to me is further proof that he was in someway involved.
Maybe he had Friends who were shipped him and would do anything for the lone Eagle. I was so glad when I happen to run into this article because I thought I was probably the only person who would think of Charles Lindbergh as a man who would hurt his son. And moral Lindburg seems like such a nice person I wonder if she suspected anything with her husband.
I would almost think she would have to because many of the people who worked in the house thought of him when the baby first went missing.
She had a tough life ending in dementia. Maybe that was the greatest gift she had to forget the horror that her life had become. Also one other thing which is always bothers me is that the man in the cemetery said call me cemetery John. She knew because she worked in the bakery that the child has been kidnapped I wonder if it occurred to herThat their son wealth was more easily explained by the death of the baby.
Was Anne Morrows sister ever questioned the one C. L had dated? Are there any photos of this baby standing? In later years did the household staff ever reveal their thoughts on the murder? The Lindbergh Case. Gardner, Lloyd C. Kennedy, Ludovic. New York: Viking Penguin, Inc. Scaduto, Anthony. New York: G. Waller, George. Kidnap: The Story of the Lindbergh Case. New York: The Dial Press, Zorn, Robert. Sixty thousand people -- reporters, novelists, movie stars, and society matrons -- crammed into tiny Flemington.
The town had one hotel and one bar to accommodate some of the biggest names in journalism, Walter Winchell, Fanny Hurst, and Damon Runyon among them. Hauptmann was defended by Edward "Big Ed" Reilly, a flamboyant attorney who was reputed to have seen his better days. Both Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were called as witnesses.
Charles testified that he recognized Hauptmann's voice from the night that he and Condon had delivered the ransom money to the cemetery. When Hauptmann took the stand he denied all involvement with the crimes. He went on to say that he had been beaten by the police and forced to alter the way he wrote so that his handwriting matched that found in the ransom note.
Testimony ended in early February of Following 11 hours of deliberation, the jury found Hauptmann guilty of murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death. At p. Right up to that moment doubts about Hauptmann's guilt existed.
Appeals were made all the way to the Supreme Court. None were successful. The Governor of New Jersey himself voiced doubts about the verdict. Following Hauptmann's death, some reporters and independent investigators came up with numerous questions regarding the way the investigation was run and the fairness of the trial.
Questions were raised concerning issues ranging from witness tampering to the planting of evidence. Twice during the 's, Anna Hauptmann sued the state of New Jersey for the unjust execution of her husband. Both times the suits were dismissed. Both Lindbergh and his wife testified about the events of the evening in which their son was kidnapped and likely killed; Anne's testimony was so wrought with tears that the defense did not even cross-examine her.
Condon, who met with the kidnapper twice, also testified in the trial, insisting that it was Hauptmann that had joined him under the shadow of the night for the money transfer, even though he did not say so during an earlier police line-up before Hauptmann was charged. At one point, the prosecutor and Hauptmann squared off in an intense two-day questioning that was more like a shoot-out, and though they were not permitted to do so, the newsreel cameramen shot footage of the scenes and rushed them out to editors.
For the first time, Americans were able to watch an intense a high-powered criminal trial in almost real-time; as a result, cameras were banned from courtrooms for many years to come, though upon their return they would once again captivate the nation. Hauptmann refused to confess. He was found guilty after six weeks on trial and sentenced to death, administered by the State of New Jersey via electric chair in Questions about whether he actually kidnapped and killed the Lindbergh baby linger to this day, with some experts suggesting that, at the very least, he did not act alone in committing the crime.
The true-crime writer spent the last six years of her life chasing down the infamous California serial killer and rapist. More than a century after his untimely demise, there are still rumors and legends about how the author met his end. Lyle and Erik Menendez cited emotional and physical abuse, among other reasons, for the gruesome killing of their mother and father. The young mother raised suspicions with her behavior after the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee, though prosecutors were unable to conclusively tie her to the toddler's death.
The gruesome death of year-old Elizabeth Short confounded Los Angeles investigators in the late s and remained a topic of intrigue in the decades that followed. The "Sopranos" star suffered a heart attack while on a trip to Italy in June
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