Anew theory gaining ground about the notorious 1930s Lindbergh kidnapping suggests aviator Charles Lindbergh volunteered his child for medical research and staged the crime to cover up the baby’s death.
The true crime author and retired judge passionately promoting this idea says an innocent man was executed for the crime, Knewz.com has learned.
The high-profile New Jersey kidnapping-turned-murder has been a closed case since Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German native who lived in New York illegally, was convicted of the crime. Hauptmann maintained his innocence until the day he was sent to the electric chair.
Now, nearly a century later, “respected Bay Area historians are proposing a new, macabre theory about the case,” according to a Tuesday, January 2 report by The San Francisco Chronicle.
“A lot of leads weren’t followed, about a dozen state witnesses likely committed perjury, and the prosecution had 90,000 pages of investigation they didn’t let Hauptmann or his defense see,” retired judge and award-winning true crime author and filmmaker Lise Pearlman told The Chronicle. “The wrong man was executed, and my hope is that Hauptmann will be posthumously exonerated. And I am certainly not the only one who wants that.”
Pearlman believes Lindbergh was responsible for staging the kidnapping, and is pushing for New Jersey officials to release evidence from the case’s archives that may confirm these suspicions.
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