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[Originally Created on 8-4-03]
Breaking New Ground
Title: Lindbergh Trial
Detail: The infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh, the world famous aviator, was taken from his nursery March 1, 1932. a ransom note was left and the ransom was paid, but two months later, the child's decomposing body was found not far from his home, setting off the largest manhunt in history.
On September 19, 1934, a carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., bringing to an end the hunt for the most hated man in America. On January 2, 1935, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann began in the historic courthouse in Flemington, NJ.
Many believed Hauptmann to be innocent, emphasizing that the prosecution's case as largely circumstantial. Neither crime scene fingerprints nor a murder weapon were ever found. In addition, the investigative process immediately following the crime was fraught with police error.
One key witnesses for the prosecution was Arthur Koehler, project leader of the wood anatomy research group at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI. He provided what one juror called "the most significant" information on an important piece of forensic evidence. Koehler testified that a section of attic floor board taken from Hauptmann's apartment precisely matched the grain of wood used for a homemade ladder found at the site of the kidnapping and believed to be the ladder used by the kidnaper to enter the Lindbergh home. Koehler's expertise was actually part of the investigation that began immediately following the kidnapping; he was able to determine the origin of the lumber, tracing the marks left during processing. He surveyed all planning mills from New York City to Alabama to determine the source of the wood used in the ladder. Koehler also connected a shipment of wood containing the telltale marks to wood at a lumber mill in Bronx where Hauptmann once worked.
Source: Many, including Fall '99 History Line; and www.law.umkc.edu/ (complete testimony from trial, including Koehler's and other pertinent information).
Contact: lindberghkidnap.proboards56.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=rick3
[Originally Created on 8-4-03]
Breaking New Ground
Title: Lindbergh Trial
Detail: The infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh, the world famous aviator, was taken from his nursery March 1, 1932. a ransom note was left and the ransom was paid, but two months later, the child's decomposing body was found not far from his home, setting off the largest manhunt in history.
On September 19, 1934, a carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., bringing to an end the hunt for the most hated man in America. On January 2, 1935, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann began in the historic courthouse in Flemington, NJ.
Many believed Hauptmann to be innocent, emphasizing that the prosecution's case as largely circumstantial. Neither crime scene fingerprints nor a murder weapon were ever found. In addition, the investigative process immediately following the crime was fraught with police error.
One key witnesses for the prosecution was Arthur Koehler, project leader of the wood anatomy research group at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, WI. He provided what one juror called "the most significant" information on an important piece of forensic evidence. Koehler testified that a section of attic floor board taken from Hauptmann's apartment precisely matched the grain of wood used for a homemade ladder found at the site of the kidnapping and believed to be the ladder used by the kidnaper to enter the Lindbergh home. Koehler's expertise was actually part of the investigation that began immediately following the kidnapping; he was able to determine the origin of the lumber, tracing the marks left during processing. He surveyed all planning mills from New York City to Alabama to determine the source of the wood used in the ladder. Koehler also connected a shipment of wood containing the telltale marks to wood at a lumber mill in Bronx where Hauptmann once worked.
Source: Many, including Fall '99 History Line; and www.law.umkc.edu/ (complete testimony from trial, including Koehler's and other pertinent information).
Contact: lindberghkidnap.proboards56.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=rick3