Was it just luck? Another thing that came to mind. The remains of a young child came from a morgue with the assistance of a medical doctor. I am always suspicious when a suspect takes an action the day of a crime that seems unrelated yet was something they had NEVER done before. Steves not your typical, single-minded cop, says Ahlgren. Hauptmanns trial was a raucous tragedy with few exceptions prosecution witnesses either distorted the truth or committed flat-out perjury the state police had tampered with physical evidence, and in many cases suppressed vital information.. If the defense had admitted his involvement in the extortion attempt, they would have eliminated most of the testimony against him. At 7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, Anne and Betty Gow, the childs nanny, put the infant to bed. Charles A. Lindbergh after telling the grand jury his story. They latched two of the three sets of shutters. A Lindbergh quote after his historic flight provides some unsettling insight: There were times in an airplane when it seemed I had escaped mortality to look down on earth like a God., It didnt seem to matter that if he had failed, other pilots would have made the crossing within days. Ahlgren believes they could get an indictment against Lindbergh based on their research. 1932, Oliver Whately, butler died from stomach ailment . In life, he says, we tend to take a few facts and extrapolate an image of someone from that. As time ripened his legendary status, Lindberghscharacter flaws were twisted into admirable traits by those who knew him or wrote about him. Could he have snuck up by that entrance (which accounts for no muddy footprints in the place), taken the baby.etc etc??? 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. Pearlmans book says that Lindbergh, who was far more of a Nazi sympathizer than Carrel before World War II, convinced Carrel during the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 to take a job overseeing the French Vichy governments French Foundation for the Study of Human Problems.. It is surprising how much control he did have over it even in 1932. Bruno Hauptmann may have been Cemetery John, but more likely got the second hand hot money from Isador Fisch, who was known to traffic in illegal currency. I guess I thought maybe there was enough of a bizarre component to him that he would read the article.. For those who say Morrow loved him: NO. And when the Governor offered to commute his death sentence for the same confession, he tearfully told Hoffman he had nothing to confess. Could the ladder be a red herring? He was just regarded as Lyndys son and perhaps that provoked the father to seek revenge on a child who might steal his thunder. He also had hammertoes on his left foot, a too-large cranium and unfused skull bones. Was it merely a coincidence or did he choose to facilitate the kidnapping, maybe by diverting attention from the boys second-floor bedroom or as a lookout to allow the abductor or abductors to escape down a back staircase? He said the gold certificates had been left with him by a friend, Isidor Fisch, who returned to Germany from the U.S. in December 1933 and died there of tuberculosis in March 1934. If you are looking for more information, purchase my book TWO MEN AND ONE PAIR OF SHOES, The Trial of Richard Hauptmann. I hate to say that unfortunately I believe Lindbergh was responsible for his sons death. The circumstantial evidence against Lindbergh in the death of his son is compelling, intricate, frustrating, persistent and mysterious. See our, This website uses cookies. He spent his nights and weekends examining the facts as if the crime had been committed in his town. But maybe at least Hauptmanns execution wouldnt have happened. 90 years later, people are still enthralled with the crime and are searching for clues. Bruno Hauptmann It outlined the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and asked for $50,000 to be delivered to a yet-undisclosed location in small . They are the only two Lindbergh case authors with law enforcement experience, and their expert analysis points the finger of guilt directly at Charles Lindbergh. Charles Lindbergh identified the body as that of his son, who had apparently died the night he was taken. Why did THEY enter the house when all five adult residents were awake and moving about, instead of waiting until after midnight? Rutgers is an equal access/equal opportunity institution. Lindbergh took a bath. She talked in a recent interview with The Topeka Capital-Journal about how Lindbergh known as the Lone Eagle became an international hero after he completed the first nonstop intercontinental flight from New York to Paris in 1927. In retrospect, Ahlgren identified nine factors of evidence that ultimately sent Hauptmann to the electric chair. Then Lindbergh might have driven the baby away from the house, killed him in the woods, hidden the body in the canvas bag and carried it a longer distance from the house to hide it. As a former juvenile officer, Marlier knew recent FBI crime statistics showed that over 70 percent of the homicides involving children under nine years old are committed by one or both parents. When Hoover sent two FBI agents to assist with the investigation, Lindbergh turned them away, refusing help from the one agency whose experience and training gave them the best chance of returning his son. In 1957, Lindbergh, then 55, met and fell in love with Brigitte Hesshaimer, a 31-year-old hat maker living in Munich, Germany. Ahlgren, an unabashed liberal who defends the sorts of people Monier would like to lock up, was once a Democratic state representative. I have a letter from Lindberg. This would be considered to be perfectly normal in the rest of the world for a rich and successful man. Got it from a book decades ago on the rambling wreckage of the investigation and trial. When the house was livable, the couple would meet there on Saturdays and remain until Monday morning, when Lindbergh left for his job in New York with Trans-Continental Air Transport and would spend the week with Anne at her mothers estate. Lindbergh had phoned ahead with strict instructions that no one was to enter the nursery between 8-10PM that nighthe didnt want the child coddled. I had the pleasure of knowing Chief Monier many years ago when I was a reporter in Goffstown, N.H. BOSTON -- A new book to be released next week claims famed aviator Charles A. Lindbergh was responsible for the death of his infant son in a prank, but let another man be executed rather. Anne heard nothing, and their Boston terrier never barked. He was accused of collaboration with the Nazis after France was liberated but died at age 71, in November 1944, before he could go to trial. These spare pieces were tossed out the window and wound up in a lumber pile. Great article, just have one more point to possibly add. But they didnt stop reading. Hauptmann said he kept the money for himself because Fisch owed him. Quite a few people have claimed they were the missing Lindbergh baby. . To my knowledge, Elizabeth Jr older sister was not questioned by anyone at any time she died in Dec. l934; there is a photo of Charles Jr standing straight with two dogs beside him, legs were muscular and straight summer clothes. Im not convinced. These are strictly my own wild imaginations, but Lucky Lindy was a cruel, hateful man underneath the veneer as evidenced by his mean pranks. The truth of this seminal crime resides with the handful of people who knew the Lindbergh family would be staying at Highfields on a Tuesday nightfor the first time EVER. Great read. Other extortion demands would follow, but on May 12th the body of Charles Lindbergh Jr. was discovered 2.5 miles south of the Lindbergh house and about halfway between Highfields and the farmhouse Lindbergh had rented in Mount Rose. But a dispassionate look at the available evidence shows that Lindbergh is definitely a plausible suspect. As for Richard Hauptman, He didnt deserve the Electric Chair. I wish we had taken him home and kept him said Rogers after he heard the news. Unlike the 1932 Schoenfeld profile of the kidnapper as an anti-social loner dissatisfied with his station in life, Hauptmann was happily married with a young son and had many friends among the Bronx German community, including Isador Fisch. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted in the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh, is executed by electrocution. But some people also ignore or dismiss information that doesnt fit their rigid perceptions. In 1982 Robert Monier gave up his position as president of the state senate to run for governor. His second child was already on his way. To them he was a minor character. They kept their relationship a secret, even from their children, Dyrk, Astrid, and David. (1933) .sister Elizabeth died in l934 ailment questionable. Five years later, he was the subject of a nightmarish new story: On the evening of March 1st, 1932, his 20-month old son, Charlie, was stolen from his crib. Not all the reactions were positive. Elon's son Nevada died of SIDS at 10 weeks old. And remember too, his first motive in life, the flight to Paris, was done for MONEY and pride. what happened to bruno hauptmann's son. While Gardner says that for a long while he fought in his own mind against the idea of Lindberghs involvement, he thinks the kidnapping went too far and that his child died on the rainy and windy night of the abduction from his home, Highfields, in Hopewell, N.J., on March 1, 1932. 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. Journalist H.L. She had a tough life ending in dementia. Lindbergh Kidnapping: Did Charles Lindbergh Kill His Son? Did Bruno Hauptmann know how to read and write in the English language? In the summer of 1990, Gregory Ahlgren had no idea that the next three years of his life were about to be changed by a paperback book. Not only was the childs body important evidence, but Lindbergh never stopped to consider if Anne might like a Christian burial for her son. Could he have done it for the fame? He had seven secret children with 3 women other than his wife . Contact webmaster, Rutgers' Lloyd Gardner will be featured in the PBS, Ive resisted the theory that Lindbergh was involved, Gardner says. 2. Still, Ahlgren went ahead and won a $100,000 judgment for the estate. People can lie but behavior never lies. The women searched the house for 20 frantic minutes before Lindbergh admitted the hoax. Any other clues that may have existed were obliterated by the horde of police and press who trampled the grounds. I realize the legal protections we have today arent that old, and theyre not necessarily here forever., The other side, says Monier, is that police officers have a tough job to do, and we have to do it carefully if we dont want guilty people to go free. Beyond that, he adds, I think my perceptions of how we look at historical figures has changed. There is no doubt that Hauptmann wrote the notes, made the ladder, and had some of the ransom money in his possession. Just like the man himself. The first was found by Charles in his son's room immediately after discovering the boy was gone. It was a long shot that paid off. Gregory Ahlgren and Stephen Monier theorized in a book published in 1993 that Lindbergh was playing a prank when he dropped his son from a ladder, killing him, then hid the body. If i sent you a copy of this pic, and the letter from lindberg and maybe some documentation, could you please analyze? The way to break the code was on back. Im not saying Im sure that Lindbergh himself was involved, just that there are too many co-incidences for this to be a totally random crime. He had some prominent supporters, including the governor of New Jersey, Harold Hoffman. They had some reservations. More significant is the famous aviators fascination with Social Darwinism, which Gardner finds especially noteworthy due to numerous questions raised about his childs health. The author also believes the childs death could have resulted from an accident during the kidnapping, which, to this day, is still considered the crime of the century. Lindbergh on April 2, 1932, paid a $50,000 ransom for his sons return, which included gold certificates that were about to be withdrawn from circulation. Still, Hauptmann was convicted of capital murder in the death of Lindberghs son. Nursemaid Betty Gow, one of five people at the crime scene, had a shifty boyfriend who was aware of the babys location that night. No one has mentioned the possibility of the child not being killed, but simply spirited away to be cared for, but disappearing from the parents life. All views, thoughts and opinions expressed in article text belongs solely to the article author. The mysterious kidnapper left a note demanding $50,000. I guess they dont use the internet for research. FDR was friends with Byrd but Lindberg was an enemy. But he also found there was another side to Lindbergh. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald was either a murderer or the victim of a murderous hippie cult and thats a story that you and I can really sink Could today's advanced forensic evidence leave no doubt about the football hero OJ Simpson's guilt? The state police force was headed by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a political appointee whose police experience amounted to having once worked as a department store detective and whose son would later become a hero in his own right. Because from what ive read, he loved being in the spotlight. When Lindbergh went to where the baby was said to be held, it turned out to be a hoax. Then on May 12, 1932, the lifeless child was found in the woods less than three miles from Lindberghs estate. With the eyes of the world upon him, Charles Lindbergh immediately took control of the investigation and directed it away from Highfields. Despite overwhelming evidence of guilt, Simpson was acquitted following the longest and most televised criminal trial in United States legal history. I believe that I do have the murder pic before the baby was found. After all, he did have a secret family in Germany, so who knows what other secrets he hid. And she WAS one of the handful of people who knew the Lindberghs would be staying at the house in Hopewell the night of March 1st. It's nice to come across a blog every once in a while that isn't the same old rehashed information. Why did he suddenly take his family to live in Europe for their safety right when Governor Hoffman re-opened the investigation? What a bunch of armchair idiots. He would still have had time to hide the body in the woods and pull up the drive at 8:25, honking so that everyone noted when he came home. She has always said it was inside job, and that a mentally ill family member was the likely kidnapper. Without a word, Lindbergh raced upstairs and into the nursery as Anne was coming out. Is that Gene Rosen of Sandy Hook fame? Baby Charlie was missing from his crib when Betty checked him at 10 PM. What if there never was a kidnapper? Think about it. In my mind, today the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. is perhaps the greatest mystery in American true crime annals. In 1932 Lupica was a Princeton Academy high school student living near Hopewell. Even with the conviction, the logistics of the crime were a mystery. While I believe we dont know everything about this case, and there is probably much that is still mysterious and never will be explained, I have no doubt that Hauptmann was behind the kidnapping. In the brush they found an odd homemade ladder. The fascination with this crime endures eight decades later. On his deathbed, butler Ollie Whatley said an insider was responsible for the death of the child. amazing read.. thank you so much for compiling this, had me tearing up. After all, he wouldnt have driven down the driveway right up to the house if he intended to kidnap the baby before the Lindberghs went to bed, right? Yet the money was found wrapped in newspapers from September 1934 and not from April 1932 when the ransom drop went down. Ten weeks after the kidnapping, on May 12, the body of a toddler was found partially buried in the woods near the Lindbergh home. Says Monier: It was one of the best-tried cases Ive ever seen.. )John (jafsie)Condon lived 2974 near Woodlawn cem?9. The book is available by hardcover for $32.24, by paperback for $23.54 and by Kindle for $11.49. When the baby disappeared two months later, one of Anne Morrow Lindberghs first thoughts was that her husband had taken the child as a joke, according to a letter she wrote to her mother-in-law. thank you for this. Is there any way you can send the pictures? On March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., the son . Will we ever know? The 41-year-old defense attorney was sorting through boxes as he and his wife had just moved from their home in Goffstown, New Hampshire, to another in nearby Manchester. For further reading on this fascinating, controversial theory that the Lindbergh kidnapping was an inside job, I recommend Crime of the Century by Gregory Ahlgren and Stephen Monier. The lone driver was wearing a fedora. Thank you, Sharon (it very well looks set up when you look at the evidence never made public). Despite their professional ties, Monier and Ahlgren never became social friends. Lindberghs new home, named Highfields,was in an isolated area of the Sourland Mountains near Hopewell NJ. These facts, and dozens more, clearly point to an inside job. Instead, he drove the two hours back to Highfields, where he arrived around 8:25 PM. All his having more kids to women in Germany in the 50s (he provided for all of them) proved was that he had a high sex drive and wanted to have as many offspring as possible. The New York Daily Mirror hired lawyer Ed Reilly to represent Hauptmann and to provide an exclusive news pipeline. Copies that are purchased at the Regent Press website come signed. How would an outsider know which window to go to? Upon his return, however, Lindbergh went alone into the nursery. All the evidence BEFORE Hauptmanns capture indicated a well-prepared gang was involvedat least in the NY extortion case. He attached a note asking Monier what he thought. He had the subject on his mind. He was obviously much closer to Highfields than he told Anne. Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 but he was only 25 years old then. On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (born June 22, 1930), the 20-month-old son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was abducted from his crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. The opposite was the case: Before the trial, he had told the police he hadnt seen anyone suspicious prior to the childs disappearance. Think about it. Home Family Violence & Homicide Lindbergh Kidnapping: Did Charles Lindbergh Kill His Son? And WHY on earth did Lindbergh order his son to be cremated immediately after HE made the identification? Therefore, Lindbergh concocted this wild tale that his son was kidnapped. I believe an innocent man was executed. to write the ransom notes to cover-up the childs disappearance not murder. In a way, Wolfe was writing parts of his life into the ransom notes. In his comment, Jack Mehoff here stated that loonies like the author of this article are grasping at straws and cherry-picking information to create controversy. Other things didnt add up. After a. If the ladder broke on the descent and his son was killed, Lindbergh would never have come clean that he was to blame. When their firstborn child was kidnapped from their home on March 1st, 1932 and found murdered in the woods two months later, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh were the most famous couple in America, and the case would become the most publicized crime of the 20th century. Greg was representing some person wed arrested for a series of thefts, remembers Monier. You cannot change what was published many years ago. He said the dad was pitching sofa pillows at the toddler, knocking him to the ground. Lastly, did Lindbergh accidentally kill his child during a prank that went awry? Lindbergh was now the nations most eligible bachelor. Had it not been for the Lone Eagle flight, a friend of Annes told a British writer, [Lindbergh] would now be in charge of a gasoline station on the outskirts of St. Louis., Monier was taken aback. Even if Hauptmann was innocent, was Lindbergh cold enough to let another man die in the electric chair? New York police would find almost $15,000 of the ransom money in Hauptmanns garage. The job of analyzing the trial fell to Ahlgren . Despite the pleas of New Jersey and New York investigators, Lindbergh forbade any policemen to stake out the cemetery and follow the suspect, whose directions on where to find the child turned out to be bogus. The kidnapping had taken place on March 1, 1932, in a rural New Jersey town with a two-man police force. Im not sure nor am I speculating exactly what happened but I do feel that the father had something big to do with his sons demise. While I was thinking about this the oddest thought crept into my mind. Heres The Evidence My Team Found, Do criminals freely decide to commit offences? The money found concealed in his garage (which had serial numbers that matched the ransom money) proves that he did it. In March 1932 the Lindberghs' two-year-old son, Charles Augustus, Jr., was kidnapped from their home near Hopewell, New Jersey, and a short time later was found murdered. At one point he threatened to shoot any officer who violated this order. A few hours before the kidnapping, he was passed by a man on the road with a ladder in his car. Lindbergh certainly did not want any more publicity by the news media, and he was wealthy; theres no motive for him to kill his own son. He thumbed his nose at J.E. Now, after almost another decade of research, Gardner has added a dramatic afterward to his work the theory that Lindbergh, the Lone Eagle, was somehow involved with little Charlies abduction. he crossed the pond in an airplane first???? Wonderful read! And Hauptmanns work records showed him doing carpentry work in New York City during that day. In the pictures, there were hundreds in the box, there is a picture of a hotel room, there is what looks like blood all over the floor. Ahlgren understood then why the prosecution hadnt called Lupica. Right away, FDR gave Byrd instructions on how he wanted the upstairs to look at the Byrd Compound. Betty Gow, who was portrayed as sort of matronly and sweet by the press, was a pretty tough lady who didnt particularly enjoy her job. Upon returning she was hospitalized for four days, yet when questioned Lindbergh lied about this to the press. Once the front-runner, Monier lost the primary to John Sununu, who became governor. Very interesting story, now I want to read to the book. Its time to wake up! There is something that appears to be a diaper. I can find no where that says FDR stayed at his compound. But there is no CREDIBLE evidence to place Hauptmann at the Lindbergh estate that night, and his work records and wifes testimony place him in the Bronx all that day. After all, he had the money. I would not be surprised to find that he told many more lies, deceived many more people, and was responsible for his little boys death. Various authors have since contended Hauptmann was not responsible for the kidnapping and death of Lindberghs son. 1. Charles Augustus Lindbergh III was born on June 22, 1930. There is a letter from Lindberg in this box. It was the biggest news story of the era and it has been called the crime of the century. Lindberghs behavior at the morgue exceeds the quick cremation he showed no emotion or care towards the deceased child. 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