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Post by dave on Jun 30, 2016 17:38:32 GMT -5
What are you waiting for Michael? If you have what you want everyone to think you have, go to the New York Times, NBC, CBS, FOX! Big stories sell books. Keep the website informed and sell 25 copies. Inform the world sell thousands. If you have a publisher great. If your self-publishing, you'll have more in common with my friend Wayne Jones than you could ever think.
You have to set your hair on fire and go. Unless....... You want the top slot go. Go now. "F" the galleys. Put up or---- you know the rest.
You've been called.
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Post by dave on Jun 30, 2016 14:51:49 GMT -5
Jack you are, as they say "spot on," but always remember, a conspiracy is far more fun. And guess what, you can't disprove a conspiracy. Bought jurior, and inside help. It don't get any better than that.
Like I always say: "Simple Crime, Simpler Time!"
And Jack, my good friend, don't ever forget that guys like us, we live rent free in their heads!
Stay strong!
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Post by dave on Jun 30, 2016 11:04:29 GMT -5
Just for the record, the Faulkner deposit slip was in the files of the NJSP at Trenton in 1982. Kennedy and I held it in our own little hands.
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Post by dave on Jun 24, 2016 11:57:19 GMT -5
It 's like a great man once said - "The only thing we have to fear is, Jack and Dave!"
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Post by dave on Jun 24, 2016 11:17:29 GMT -5
Hey Jack,
Are you and I the only ones who can see what is in plain site? Sherlock Holmes said many times - "We see but we do not observe !"
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Post by dave on Jun 24, 2016 10:40:03 GMT -5
Get the Squibb Report from the 80's.
Once again 21st century thinking! 84 years ago , simple crime, simpler time. Prime example of over thinking the case. He dug a hole and buried the body. Then he finds he needs the sleeping suite. He came back, took some b---s, and dug up the body and didn't bury it very well. In a hurry! You damn well know animals messed with the body.What body parts were missing? Another week or so you have found nothing. Nothing a trucker would have chanced upon!
It was 1932! Don't over think it!!
Now I'll sit back and just wait for all the "Pros" to weigh in.
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Post by dave on Jun 23, 2016 17:34:32 GMT -5
For thirty-five years I have lived and spent a small fortune on this case. "Disrespectful" is one of nicer things people have said about me. Ask Jack, I use him as a personal reference
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Post by dave on Jun 22, 2016 14:19:09 GMT -5
Really! Words cannot be found.
Geez!
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Post by dave on Jun 20, 2016 14:04:24 GMT -5
Give me a break! Jack help me here!!!
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Post by dave on Apr 12, 2016 18:12:53 GMT -5
YEP!
Jack, Did a post to you on Best LBK Books about Wayne Jones book.
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Post by dave on Apr 12, 2016 17:25:38 GMT -5
Jack, What I know of the Warburgs I learned from Edward Griffin and Ron Chernow. Alan's theory doesn't wash. Sorry!
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Post by dave on Apr 12, 2016 14:37:09 GMT -5
A. R. aside from maybe knowing some of the guys who formed Murder Inc, had nothing to do with Murder Inc.. Where are you getting your information? Jack what do you think? Sounds like the flavor, sorry, theory of he month.
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:51:32 GMT -5
If anyone would like info on the Jones files let me know.
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:41:11 GMT -5
Jack, Have you gotten the two new books on Kitty Genovese?
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:25:25 GMT -5
Would love to hear reviews on Wayne's book. Good and bad!
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:24:49 GMT -5
Micheal, When's the book due out?
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:23:57 GMT -5
Hey Jack do you have Wayne's book in your collection?
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:23:40 GMT -5
Hey Jack, Always glad to hear from you and know your still above ground!
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Post by dave on Apr 10, 2016 12:23:25 GMT -5
Hey Jack, Regarding Wayne Jones. He was a good friend, but I always thought he was a little out in left field. I remember one time when we were at the University of Deleware together with Ethal Stockton, and he went off on her about the baby being alive and in South America. Wrong place wrong time. He could be that way sometimes.
I remember being at his house in Phoenixville, Pa. and discovering that he was writing the book completely on an old, very small, Royal typewriter. It was amazing to see, but he was very dedicated to Richard. It was through him that I met Mrs. Hauptmann. Once at his house (First meeting) and three times at her home near Philly.
As I recall there were 2,500 copies of the book printed which Wayne, me and some other friends paid for. It would be interesting to find out how many copies Vantage still has. They were in charge of getting the books out. They did a press release, but that was about it. Such is the vanity press business.
I thought the book was fun to read and a great door stop. I remember when my ten copies arrived the delivery man used a handcart.
When Wayne died his wife sent me six boxes of stuff from his files. The treasure was a dozen old pictures that belonged to Mrs. Hauptmann. Also the picture that Richard signed and sent to Anna when she was in Germany. Scaduto talks about it in his book and the picture is on the back of the dust jacket of his book. For a few years I thought I had lost the picture, but later found it. It's one of my favorite things in my kidnapping collection.
One thing Wayne could never live down was that he lived on Nutt Road. That fact always came up when discussing Wayne with other researchers who knew him personally.
He even put my name in the acknowledgments. I miss him. He was a good friend.
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Post by dave on Jan 22, 2016 19:24:53 GMT -5
Jack,
Did we just catch it from Michael or what?!?!?!
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Post by dave on Jan 22, 2016 16:38:14 GMT -5
How U B Jack?
Hauptmann brought three sections of the ladder to crime scene. Because, he had no idea when leaving the Bronx how high he was going to have to climb. Is that what your saying? . I always believed he knew where the house was located, generally, and where the kid slept, generally, but till he got there he wasn't sure.
Check out where Millard says he saw Hauptmann wandering around. If Hauptmann knew where he was going there's no reason for him to be exploring. When Millard saw him he didn't know the exact location. Therefore, first trip to location maybe? Is that what your saying? Can't wait to see the posts on that concept.
Planning? Yes. Hauptman planed to go to Hopewell, New Jersey and kidnap the Lindbergh Baby. He had no idea going to Hopewell how high the nursery window was. He tried three sections. Too much. Tried two sections. Perfect! Is that what yor saying?
Jack how can we make ths more complicated ?
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Post by dave on Jan 22, 2016 14:54:28 GMT -5
Jack,
The one thing I have always found true about this case, The Lindbergh Case, is that if you have a theory your working on (Of course it is always based only on the facts, that which is in the record!) when something is introduced outside the known record you simply say, "Thats not true!" An expert, someone who has given years to research and only used the three classic "known" sources (NJSP, NYPD and FBI) I think is limited in their thinking. They don't have the whole picture, just a part of it. Fisher is a prime example, he used the files. The files of the NJSP. I could have exposed him to other aspects of the case, but no, the files it's all there. He told me once that "there is so much in the file that people have missed."Look what he produced. Anyone who spends all there time going back and forth to Trenton does not have and will never have the complete story. I don't care what they think they have found for the first time.
If its not part of the record, NJSP, FBI and NYPD the information is no good. If we're in say, Canada , and challenged the account of the Holocaust you could go to jail. Sometimes I see the same lack of interest and in a sence a chill in the challenge to the treditional story of this case.
Any new book or theory that starts out with, "I want to thank Mark at the NJSP Archives, knows what the files know, and nothing else. Jack, now watch the posts! The question will be asked, "what else is there?
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 20:03:24 GMT -5
I really hope that what I am about to say will not break too many hearts. But here goes. A lot of the Troopers. Policemen and FBI Agents who worked the Lindbergh Case took stuff that related to the Hauptmann's. I found two old troopers from the NJSP who had Hauptmann's shotguns. Some had furniture form the Hauptmann Apartment. Dishes from Germany, silverware, framed pictures, personal gifts from family members, Richards musical instruments. When Mrs. Hauptmann asked, and she had a right to do so, for personal iitems that didn't relate to the case be returned, she was told "Sorry you should have asked earlier!" There was nothing left.
Did Harry have the box? I think he did. It was most likely found during or after the trial and the case being so strong never used. The pen, I don't remember too well, I'm sure was Hauptmann's.
A lot of the cops that worked this case were real scum. I found a lot of cops had one or two Lindbergh bills. Not a crime, but how and from whom did they get them?
I don't know what happened to the radio. I gave the NJSP a press photo of two Jersey Troopers carrying it into the Court Room at Flemington. I have no idea where it went from there. The Trooper who gave me the picture, and he is in the picture, only laughed when I asked him.
Simple crime, simpler time. A time when the cops took everything and no one asked any questions. There's a word that is used today way too much with too many people and the word is "HERO." There were none in this case. If you look hard you will find two or three good cops on this case but that's it. Very very few.
Sounds kind of modern huh?
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 20:03:01 GMT -5
Not all cops are good cops! That be news to some!
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 16:32:15 GMT -5
In the summer of 1984 I was in a suburb of Jersey City, New Jersey to meet a member of Harry Walsh's family. A very nice lady bought out a wooden box that was an exact copy of the box at the NJSP Museum. The lid or cover was broken and a large part was missing. In it were Harry's gun, a few pictures, and some newspaper clippings and a fountain pen. I was there about 30 minutes. A couple of days latter a called the lady. A man answered the phone. I told him who I was and that I would like photograph the box. He said his wife was out and that he knew nothing about the "wooden box with the broke lid." and hung up. Had I scene "the box?" And did Harry Waldh have it? They never took my calls after my final contact with the man. I want by the house twice after that in the fall but a neighbor told me on my last visit that the man had died and the lady had moved to Florida with no forwarding address. I was DOA with regards to the mystery box after that.
And what of the pen? Why did he keep that one pen?
Sorry I did miss read the earlier post. It was Curtis!
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 15:52:33 GMT -5
Not a farmer. Big name in the case!
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 15:03:07 GMT -5
Hey Gary, I like that "the plasma" of the case. Your guestion "how did he know?" Is the easiest question to answer. He didn't know. What he did know was who's house it was and where the owners kid slept. (Thanks to the papers) Days they were there or not there were never an issue for him. Lindbergh at a dinner in NYC, how would he know that? He went because that was the day and time he chose. If he had gone in the room that night and been confronted by Lindbergh or Oliver, the next morning New York Time front page story, above the fold would have been: SHOOT OUT AT LINDBERGH HOME IN NEW JERSEY. If they had gone back to Englewood at the end of the weekend like they always did, he would been surprised to find no baby in the crib. Taken his ladder and note and gone back to the Bronx. Knowing Hauptmann the way I do though, he would have killed anyone (He had a gun) who walked into that room while he was there that night. Period. Full stop.
Is it too simple? Maybe so and no where as much fun if you don't see a conspiracy is it? I don't think Englewood was ever a consideration!
Simple crime, simpler time.
Hey Jack should I put a number after my name? How about "Dave 81" ?
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Post by dave on Jan 21, 2016 11:02:56 GMT -5
Hey Amy,
I always loved the old Lindbergh House. Now they have distroyed the place. The first visit I made was in 1982. Inside and out side was pretty much as it was in 1932. The white wash was all but gone then. I lived in the place by myself for several weeks after the fire in 1984.
I was never best buddies with Jim Fisher. Whenever I wanted to take him somewhere he would say - "I gotta ask my wife first." For an FBI guy I thought he was kinda weak. I was better friends with Kennedy and very close to Wayne Jones and Tony Scaduto.
Also regarding the house, back then you could make a clean walk from Fetherbed Lane to the Lindbergh House. Also the foundation to the "Guard House" was still at the start of the drive way.
Here's a research question for ya. When I was living in the Lindbergh House I explored the basement. During the investigation a famous prisoneer was kept there. I found where he had carved his name on one of the walls. Who was it?
Let me know when you go to Flemington or the Bronx and I'll give you some interesting places to check out. Off the beaten path so to speak. I wish I had known when you were going to Hopewell. I would directed you to the family of Millard Whited, they still live near the Lindbergh property, as do some of Ben Lupica's family. Just think you could have also visited Millard's grave site. Let me know when you go again.
It' a great case. But as I say, "Simple crime, simpler time!"
Stay strong!
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Post by dave on Jan 20, 2016 10:19:41 GMT -5
Hey Amy, I have followed your posts with great interest. Your doing great and I am very impressed.
I was just wondering if you have had any opportunity to visit any of the key sites in the case?
Keep up the good work. Always remember that you can get great takes on the case from Jack. He'll always make you think outside the box.
Stay strong, Dave
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Post by dave on Jan 8, 2016 22:17:31 GMT -5
Hey Jack, Been away for a while, but it's always great to see the on going interest in the case. Now, regarding the letter Richard wrote. In April of 1983 Cornel Plebani and I were going through some of the evidence that was still in boxes from the basement were it had been stored since after the trial. I had read in Tony's book "Scapegoat" about Richard saying that his "Big Book" needed to be found. Well I found it in the box I was going through. The book showed how he kept track of every cent he had. You need to check it out! Its a great item to look through. Well in the "Big Book" I found the letter you guys are all talking about. It's a great example of Richard's way of writing a letter.
What do you think Jack? Did he write the ransom notes also?
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