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Post by Michael on Dec 2, 2011 17:46:54 GMT -5
The Author of the most reliable book available on this Crime, Dr. Lloyd Gardner, has started a new Blog! Lloyd intends on posting various essays he's written since the publication of The Case That Never Dies, (ISBN 978-0-8135-3385-8) on his new site. This is valuable stuff, and to get it for free is an incredible gift to each and every Researcher, and/or LKC Buff. I will link it up below, then hopefully, it will start a new chain reaction of debate here. New Looks at the Case That Never Dies [/center][/size]
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Post by Michael on Dec 2, 2011 17:51:41 GMT -5
The Premier: PEBBLES AND MUDExcerpt: Waller’s dramatic opening of his study frames the entire case – precisely as the prosecutor, Attorney General David Wilentz did at the trial, in order to set the stage for the "Crime of the Century." With Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the stand very early in the trial, Wilentz began a series of questions about her afternoon walk the day of the kidnapping.
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Post by Michael on Dec 22, 2011 9:36:14 GMT -5
Monday Night-Tuesday Night: the Immediate Genesis of the Crime? Excerpt: Those who argue that it was impossible for the crime to have been put together by a kidnap team in the short time after Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s call to the Morrow home in Englewood at 10:30 on the morning of March 1, 1932, have a good point. Several investigators at the time and later, notably Harry Walsh the high ranking police officer from Jersey City, who was in on all the crucial interrogations, and John Douglas the former FBI profiler, who writes today on famous cases, both believed that Violet Sharp somehow tipped off the conspirators that the Lindberghs would be at Highfields that crucial night. But how, ask the dissenters, could such a crime be put together in the time remaining after Anne’s call? It couldn’t, so therefore it must have been the work of a lone wolf, Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
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Post by Michael on Dec 27, 2011 17:52:32 GMT -5
Give 'Em Hell, Harry! Excerpt: Most important to his mind was the role of the enigmatic Condon. It had taken four and a half hours to get his story, Walsh told the assembled group at Highfields. The FBI representative, Mr. Nathan, asked the key question: “Of course you gentlemen are convinced that Condon is straight?” No, answered Walsh, he was not. “I do not know whether it is the truth but I understand he has been arrested on two or three complaints of corrupting the morals of minors and another sex case or carnal abuse.” These rumors swirled around Condon for years without posing a serious threat to his story (or various stories) of the meetings with “Cemetery John.” For Walsh, they apparently seemed to indicate that he might have been an unwilling participant in the crime as a man being blackmailed.
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Post by Michael on Dec 27, 2011 17:55:12 GMT -5
The Mystery of the Ransom Notes:I Excerpt: We will leave Mr. Haring’s assertions, including his insistence that Hauptmann was not instructed how to write any words, or use any specific spellings for another post. In this one I want to concentrate on a peculiarity of the notes not much discussed in all the furor over authorship and whether there was one or more writers of what must be one of the longest “dialogues” in kidnaping history.
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Post by Michael on Jan 14, 2012 8:31:03 GMT -5
The Thumb Guard Discovery Excerpt: “I recognized it immediately,” Betty testified. Lindbergh Case students will no doubt remember that the thumb guards had been placed on Charlie at bedtime every night, including the night of the kidnapping. Thumb guards were popular at that time as a preventive measure to keep babies and young children from sucking their thumbs during sleep periods. Despite all the searches of the property in the days following the crime, all the police, reporters, onlookers, and the rest -- no one had noticed a thumb guard on the gravel road up to the house.
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Post by Michael on Feb 15, 2012 16:59:58 GMT -5
The Mystery of the Second Taxi Driver Excerpt: Much of Condon’s behavior throughout the investigation has been put down to eccentricity, and, with a sort of nonchalant wave of the hand, the old gent’s constant desire to be in the limelight. But as Judge Trenchard had said about some other somewhat questionable prosecution testimony, should we not, on the whole, accept his assertions as reasonable?
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Post by Michael on Mar 9, 2012 17:11:22 GMT -5
Hide in Plain Sight Excerpt: It has never been entirely clear how thorough the searches were. On April 7, 1932, Col. Schwarzkopf of the State Police wrote in an untitled memorandum that a log had been kept of all the searches, and which included this assertion, “ a re-check of all the surrounding area was made by experienced detectives in a minute search of the territory for a radius of at least five miles.” (italics added).
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Post by Michael on Mar 18, 2012 10:27:38 GMT -5
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Post by Michael on Mar 25, 2012 19:34:53 GMT -5
Hide in Plain Sight II Excerpt: Meanwhile, returning to the original teletype on the discovery, William Allen is reported to have said the body was “pretty well concealed,” somewhat at odds with his other explanation, but the teletype adds, “The body was lying in a depression as though there had been an attempt to bury it.” An attempt to bury it bespeaks someone in a hurry, of course, but re-affirms the original statement of a skeleton on the ground, not a leg sticking up from a grave.
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Post by Michael on Sept 6, 2012 20:38:41 GMT -5
Was the Lindbergh Kidnapping an Inside Job? Rutgers historian offers theory 80 years after ‘crime of century’By Steve Manas Excerpt: Eight decades after the crime that transfixed the world, a Rutgers professor has added a thrilling new chapter – evidence that Charles Lindbergh may have been involved in the kidnapping and murder of his son.
Lloyd C. Gardner, professor of history emeritus, points to Lindbergh’s fascination with Social Darwinism and evidence that health problems plaguing his 20-month-old son Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. suggested the child was far from perfect.
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Post by Michael on Apr 28, 2013 7:29:41 GMT -5
Comments On NOVA Excerpt: I have been collecting all my thoughts for eight hours, and have decided to start writing out impressions of what we learned and what we still need to learn. This will not be just one but a series of them written today, and probably over the next few days. I have only watched the show once, but I think it will repay a second and third watching. . And I want to thank NOVA at the outset for doing this show -- and doing it so well. It was an important vehicle for launching discussions of the most important aspects of the case. So let's begin! www.caseneverdies.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html
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