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In the 70s there were suspicions that Gerry Ford was the Lindbergh baby. In 1936 the governor of NJ delayed Haupmann's execution, to investigate further.
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"..Hauptmann was convicted, however, and immediately sentenced to death. His appeals failed, though his execution stayed twice while New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman reviewed the case."
https://archive.is/e3A90 ..... Or,
www.sfchronicle.com
By Kevin FaganJan 2, 2024
"True crime author and retired judge Lise Pearlman has recruited supporters in a campaign to exonerate Bruno Hauptmann nearly 90 years after he was convicted of kidnapping the baby of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Loren Elliott/Special to the Chronicle
It’s been 91 years since celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was kidnapped, a crime that plunged the nation into a paroxysm of anguish that ended with the capture of a German immigrant named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Prosecutors at the time said he snatched the child to squeeze a $50,000 ransom from the family, but to the day he was executed in the electric chair, Hauptmann insisted he was innocent.
Questions about Hauptmann’s guilt have swirled ever since his death, and now respected Bay Area historians are proposing a new, macabre theory about the case: that Lindbergh offered up his child as a subject for medical experiments and faked the kidnapping to cover up the child’s death.
That’s what an author and retired judge in Oakland says, and she is joined by a growing chorus of supporters who say her theory is worth investigating, including the former vice mayor of Tiburon, the co-founder of the Innocence Project and Hauptmann’s descendants.
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Back in March 1932, when 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his New Jersey home in the dark of night, it was called the “crime of the century,” and his father was one of the most vaunted figures in the world. Dubbed “Lucky Lindy” for flying his single-engine Spirit of St. Louis plane from New York to Paris in the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, Lindbergh had married socialite and poet Anne Morrow. The birth of their son in 1930 was worldwide front-page news.
True crime author and retired judge Lise Pearlman shows pages of her book at her home in Oakland.
Loren Elliott/Special to the Chronicle
The decades-old theories about the kidnapping are freely discussed at the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum in his hometown of Little Falls, Minn., and Pearlman’s book has made an impression there.
“It was a really interesting read,” said Lacey Fontaine, museum program associate. “But then, the kidnapping is the thing visitors ask about the most anyway,” even above his famous flight, his prewar Nazi sympathies, or the fact that he had seven children with three German mistresses in addition to the six he had with his wife.
“It’s hard to keep up with all the conspiracy theories, and the most popular one we get is that Charles Lindbergh had something to do with the kidnapping,” she said. “None of them ever holds enough water to reopen the case, though.”
That may change if those who back Pearlman’s theory have their way..."
Richard Hauptmann - Wikipedia
https://archive.is/e3A90 ..... Or,
Retired Oakland judge has shocking theory about infamous Lindbergh kidnapping. And it’s catching on
Respected Bay Area historians have proposed a new, macabre theory about the infamous kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby.
www.sfchronicle.com
"True crime author and retired judge Lise Pearlman has recruited supporters in a campaign to exonerate Bruno Hauptmann nearly 90 years after he was convicted of kidnapping the baby of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Loren Elliott/Special to the Chronicle
It’s been 91 years since celebrity aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby was kidnapped, a crime that plunged the nation into a paroxysm of anguish that ended with the capture of a German immigrant named Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Prosecutors at the time said he snatched the child to squeeze a $50,000 ransom from the family, but to the day he was executed in the electric chair, Hauptmann insisted he was innocent.
Questions about Hauptmann’s guilt have swirled ever since his death, and now respected Bay Area historians are proposing a new, macabre theory about the case: that Lindbergh offered up his child as a subject for medical experiments and faked the kidnapping to cover up the child’s death.
That’s what an author and retired judge in Oakland says, and she is joined by a growing chorus of supporters who say her theory is worth investigating, including the former vice mayor of Tiburon, the co-founder of the Innocence Project and Hauptmann’s descendants.
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Article continues below this ad
Back in March 1932, when 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. was snatched from his New Jersey home in the dark of night, it was called the “crime of the century,” and his father was one of the most vaunted figures in the world. Dubbed “Lucky Lindy” for flying his single-engine Spirit of St. Louis plane from New York to Paris in the first solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, Lindbergh had married socialite and poet Anne Morrow. The birth of their son in 1930 was worldwide front-page news.
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Among the things Pearlman wants are DNA testing of the ransom note and envelope and the ladder police say the kidnapper used to get into the second-floor nursery. Great-great niece Love and her aunt have given Pearlman swabs of their DNA to use for comparison if she gets access to the evidence. They are all convinced the testing will show Hauptmann did not handle those key items.
True crime author and retired judge Lise Pearlman shows pages of her book at her home in Oakland.
Loren Elliott/Special to the Chronicle
The decades-old theories about the kidnapping are freely discussed at the Charles Lindbergh House and Museum in his hometown of Little Falls, Minn., and Pearlman’s book has made an impression there.
“It was a really interesting read,” said Lacey Fontaine, museum program associate. “But then, the kidnapping is the thing visitors ask about the most anyway,” even above his famous flight, his prewar Nazi sympathies, or the fact that he had seven children with three German mistresses in addition to the six he had with his wife.
“It’s hard to keep up with all the conspiracy theories, and the most popular one we get is that Charles Lindbergh had something to do with the kidnapping,” she said. “None of them ever holds enough water to reopen the case, though.”
That may change if those who back Pearlman’s theory have their way..."
