Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax
by Monier Ahlgren, Greg Ahlgren, Stephen Monier
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Author: Greg Ahlgren, Monier Ahlgren, Stephen MonierEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-03
ISBN: 0828319715
Number of pages: 286
Publisher: Branden Books
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Book Review: A sixty-six year old hoax finally revealed. Spellbinding!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book should have been a best-seller. Contrary to first impressions, it does NOT belong in the genre of "conspiracy theory books." In my opinion, it is just the opposite - an unconspiracy book. It unravels a conspiracy theory - one that has been with us for over 65 years and took the life of an innocent man. I have read all the books on Hauptmann, Lindbergh and the Morrows that I can find. But,I continually re-read Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoax by Stephen Monier and Gregory Ahlgren because the theories proposed in their riveting account of their own modern-day re-investigation of that sensatonal case are so shockingly plausible! The reader comes away asking "Why didn't anyone think of this before?!" In fact, their theories make all of the loose jig-saw-puzzle pieces, which journalistic investigators like Anthony Scaduto "Scapegoat" (1976) and Ludovic Kennedy "The Airman and the Carpenter" (1984) have repeatedly questioned since 1976, finally fit into all the right places. Ahlgren and Monier have tied up so many loose ends with the simplest approach of all. It has been apparent to many investigators since 1976 that Hauptmann was "scapegoated" by the police in a frantic attempt to solve this 3-year-old kidnapping murder. If that is so, and there is enough evidence uncovered now to conclude that a travesty of justice did take place in Flemington, who really did it? If Hauptmann wasn't in New Jersey climbing a ladder, who was? In this age of public awareness regarding parental abuse (and murder) of young children (Susan Smith in South Carolina is a good example) is it so implausible to think that a parent could have been responsible for a kidnapping hoax 66 years ago? Even if that parent is the greatest hero in the world? All the more reason, I would think, for a man to cover up a foolish and sadistic prank that went awry. How would it have looked to the world if the "Lone Eagle" admitted accidentally dropping his young child from a homemade ladder out of the nursery window on a rainy, windy March evening while playing one of his typically sadistic "pranks" on his wife? When you read biographies of Charles Lindbergh you begin to understand where Monier and Ahlgren are coming from. He seems to have been a pathological prankster. Even Anne Lindbergh, in a letter to her mother-in-law, written on the night of the "kidnapping", reveals that her first instinct upon looking at an empty crib was that Charles took him "as a joke." Why would any mother even think of such a thing? Because her husband had a very twisted side to his personality, playing sadistic pranks throughout his life. The authors have reinvestigated the case, and the trial, as if it were happening today. Policemen of the 30s were trained simply as foot soldiers in the battle against gangster crime and had no psychological training to ever enable them to suspect a hero - (it was also pre-Watergate). The New Jersey Police actually handed the entire investigation of the "kidnapped" child over to it's father! Yes, Lindbergh was the order-giver during the entire investigation up until the baby's body was found in the woods near his home 2 months later. Even H.Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. (Jersey Chief of Police) took orders from the missing baby's father! The authors have brilliantly explained many puzzling episodes in the enire fiasco - Why did Lindbergh lie at the Hauptmann trial? Why did the Lindbergh family suddenly, and secretly, leave the United States? Was it the fault of the Press that the Lindberghs could not live in America? Why did Lindbergh become an outspoken anti-Semite and Nazi sympathizer? There will never be an end to the complexities of this case but this book offers any reader an enticing challenge to think skeptically and logically about our justice system as well as the realities of human nature.
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CRIME OF THE CENTURY The Lindbergh Kidnapping Hoaxby Gregory Ahlgren
and Stephen Monier
After it was announced that the twenty month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted on March 1, 1932, the entire world grieved for their loss. Seventy-two days later, the body was found in the woods next to a roadway, a short distance from Lindbergh's house, near Hopewell, New Jersey.
In 1927, Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic in his Spirit of St. Louis. By 1932, he was perhaps the most famous man alive. A great American hero, he was allowed to be the chief architect of the investigation into his son's kidnapping. He demanded that the body be cremated without an autopsy.
This book traces the 2½ year investigation by the New Jersey State Police, headed by Colonel H. Norman Schwarz¬kopf, and which led to the arrest, trial, conviction and execu¬tion of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. It challenges the effective¬ness of the investigation, and the evidence advanced by the prosecution, which convicted Hauptmann.
More importantly, it dissects evidence previously over¬looked of Lindbergh's own role in his son's disappearance, which, in combination with the authors' expert analysis, leads to a new and bold assertion as to who actually committed the Crime of the Century."
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