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Post by scathma on Aug 15, 2017 9:41:29 GMT -5
Why Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping, killing Charles Lindbergh's child in 'Crime of the Century'
www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/richard-hauptmann-executed-crime-century-article-1.794339
Richard Hauptmann was executed in April 1936 for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh child. Police and prosecutorial documents that have come to light in the years since have made it abundantly clear that much of the trial evidence against him was fabricated and satisfied many investigators that he almost certainly had nothing to do with the crime.
"Abundantly clear" and "nothing to do with the crime" might be a bit of an overreach...
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Post by kate1 on Aug 15, 2017 18:15:06 GMT -5
Why Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping, killing Charles Lindbergh's child in 'Crime of the Century'
www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/richard-hauptmann-executed-crime-century-article-1.794339
Richard Hauptmann was executed in April 1936 for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh child. Police and prosecutorial documents that have come to light in the years since have made it abundantly clear that much of the trial evidence against him was fabricated and satisfied many investigators that he almost certainly had nothing to do with the crime.
"Abundantly clear" and "nothing to do with the crime" might be a bit of an overreach... I agree. Much evidence was fabricated. The defense wasn't allow in the apartment where the wood appeared. The witnesses for the state were so tentative in their identification that it was laughable. Lindbergh testifying he could recognize a voice that spoke two words years before was, I think, the most despicable. It sealed Haiptmann's fate. Anna knew he was at the bakery that night and spent the rest of her life defending him.
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Post by hurtelable on Aug 27, 2017 12:24:32 GMT -5
Why Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping, killing Charles Lindbergh's child in 'Crime of the Century'
www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/richard-hauptmann-executed-crime-century-article-1.794339
Richard Hauptmann was executed in April 1936 for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh child. Police and prosecutorial documents that have come to light in the years since have made it abundantly clear that much of the trial evidence against him was fabricated and satisfied many investigators that he almost certainly had nothing to do with the crime.
"Abundantly clear" and "nothing to do with the crime" might be a bit of an overreach... Good, though brief, article in the New York Daily News, originally published in 1998 and republished recently. Certainly not enough evidence presented at trial to convict Hauptmann of MURDER beyond a reasonable doubt. In particular, no solid evidence to put him at Highfields on the night of the purported "kidnapping". This was a jury composed of uneducated, unsophisticated rural folks who weren't willing to question and doubt the credibility of the prosecutors and their witnesses. This was, after all, a historical period, the New Deal era, where government was overly adulated by the masses. Add to that the media's hullabaloo and the common prejudices against Germans, and you can see why the deck was stacked against Hauptmann from the time of his arrest. The only fair verdict would have been to acquit Hauptmann of murder, but to recommend that he be extradited back to New York to face the extortion charge, resulting from his having $14,000 or so of Lindbergh ransom money under his control at the time of his arrest.
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Post by scathma on Aug 27, 2017 15:37:18 GMT -5
The only fair verdict would have been to acquit Hauptmann of murder, but to recommend that he be extradited back to New York to face the extortion charge, resulting from his having $14,000 or so of Lindbergh ransom money under his control at the time of his arrest. My thoughts exactly...
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