Hauptmann's Ladder: A Step-By-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
A True Crime, Crime, North American Hi... book. Charles A. Lindbergh, had been named the most famous person in the world after flying alone from...
THE 2015 INDIEFAB TRUE CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up, and one posited that Lindbergh actually killed his own son and fabricated the entire kidnapping to mask the deed. Because books about the crime have been used as a means to advance personal theories, the truth has often been sacrificed and readers misinformed.Hauptmann’s Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre. Author Richard T. Cahill Jr. puts the “true” back in “true crime,” providing credible information and undistorted evidence that enables readers to form their own opinions and reach their own conclusions.Cahill presents conclusions based upon facts and documentary evidence uncovered in his twenty years of research. Using primary sources and painstakingly presenting a chronological reconstruction of the crime and its aftermath, he debunks...
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Charles A. Lindbergh, had been named the most famous person in the world after flying alone from New York to Paris in 1927. Not surprisingly, the kidnapping and death of 20-month old Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. inflamed the worlds population in the 1930s. Since the conviction and eventual execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for this... I received this book free through 1st reads giveaways. While I received a TON of information, I got a little lost in it. Lots of interrupting ideas with other ideas & details & viewpoints. Very slow read. I would've preferred if the separate theories, etc had been presented individually in sections. Like A, B, C, etc...rather than all... Meticulous, even-handed exploration of the Lindbergh kidnapping and subsequent trial. The author avoids the sensationalism and overly dramatic writing that mars many a "true crime" book. The result is a detailed, somber, factual account based on over twenty years of research that debunks many of the sensational claims of conspiracies...
