1 00:00:00,355 --> 00:00:02,355 You 2 00:00:31,349 --> 00:00:35,789 This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture 3 00:00:36,068 --> 00:00:39,188 The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanation 4 00:00:39,708 --> 00:00:43,827 But not necessarily the only one to the mysteries we will examine 5 00:00:43,827 --> 00:00:45,827 A 6 00:00:56,025 --> 00:01:01,784 Death watch outside Trenton State Prison awaits the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptman 7 00:01:02,284 --> 00:01:08,603 He has been convicted of kidnapping and murdering this child the firstborn son of Charles Lindberg 8 00:01:09,402 --> 00:01:17,401 On the night of April 3rd 1936 Bruno Hauptman is put to death 9 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:29,239 After years of intensive research a writer named Anthony Scaduto has uncovered startling new evidence 10 00:01:29,679 --> 00:01:35,558 That Bruno Hauptman may not have been guilty of the kidnap or murder of the Lindberg baby 11 00:01:39,437 --> 00:01:46,476 We are a nation founded in laws, but sometimes our system of justice doesn't live up to its highest ideals 12 00:01:47,195 --> 00:01:52,355 With newly uncovered evidence, we're going to go back more than half a century and carefully 13 00:01:52,714 --> 00:01:55,714 re-examine a moment when justice may have faltered 14 00:01:59,753 --> 00:02:04,432 New York is a city with a passion for hailing its heroes and in 1927 15 00:02:04,632 --> 00:02:10,391 It celebrates a man who with one courageous act has captured the imagination of the world 16 00:02:10,951 --> 00:02:15,150 His name is Charles Lindberg and he has flown the Atlantic alone 17 00:02:16,910 --> 00:02:21,429 The most famous man of his time Lindberg shuns the public eye as 18 00:02:22,149 --> 00:02:28,028 Privately as is possible. He courts the beautiful and morrow daughter of an American ambassador 19 00:02:28,468 --> 00:02:34,627 Soon the couple is married and in 1930 their first child is born 20 00:02:35,467 --> 00:02:39,786 It is a boy named Charles Augustus Lindberg Jr. 21 00:02:40,626 --> 00:02:46,665 As the son of a national hero he is famous and adored but his life is doomed 22 00:02:48,624 --> 00:02:55,783 On March 1st 1932 the Lindberg home is secretly entered through the second floor nursery window 23 00:02:56,383 --> 00:02:59,862 The sleeping Lindberg baby is stolen from his crib a 24 00:03:02,502 --> 00:03:07,901 Make shift wooden ladder was used to reach the child while the Lindbergs were on the floor below 25 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:14,060 Within hours the Lindberg house in Hopewell, New Jersey is crowded with police a 26 00:03:15,459 --> 00:03:19,299 Ransom note demands $50,000 for the baby's safe return 27 00:03:20,058 --> 00:03:25,777 Posters describing the 20-month-old baby are quickly circulated throughout the country 28 00:03:28,177 --> 00:03:33,696 New York and New Jersey police are assigned to double shifts in an all-out search for the child 29 00:03:38,335 --> 00:03:45,094 In New York City first contact is made with the kidnappers by a retired school teacher named John F. Condon 30 00:03:45,934 --> 00:03:49,813 Condon becomes a go-between in the attempt to recover the child 31 00:03:50,933 --> 00:03:55,792 The baby will be returned. I hope in a short time 32 00:03:56,692 --> 00:04:02,191 We are in contact and nobody is giving up a month after the kidnapping 33 00:04:02,651 --> 00:04:07,530 Condon and Charles Lindberg deliver $50,000 to a cemetery in the Bronx 34 00:04:08,290 --> 00:04:13,129 The ransom is accepted, but the Lindberg baby is not returned 35 00:04:13,449 --> 00:04:19,488 One month later near the Lindberg estate the baby's body is found 36 00:04:21,087 --> 00:04:26,246 For the next two and a half years police and the FBI tried desperately to solve the crime 37 00:04:27,526 --> 00:04:31,245 Marked bills from the ransom money are turning up throughout New York 38 00:04:32,365 --> 00:04:38,284 In September of 1934 one of the ransom bills is spent at a gas station in Manhattan 39 00:04:38,964 --> 00:04:45,443 The man who passed the bill is an immigrant German carpenter named Bruno Richard Hauptmann 40 00:04:46,643 --> 00:04:48,642 Police search his house in the Bronx 41 00:04:49,442 --> 00:04:55,481 In his garage they find hidden nearly fifteen thousand dollars of the Lindberg ransom money 42 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,480 Hauptmann is arrested and taken to the Bronx County Courthouse 43 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:08,359 Amid a flurry of publicity he's charged with murder 44 00:05:10,198 --> 00:05:14,758 The long and frustrating search for the kidnapper of Lindberg's child is finally over 45 00:05:14,957 --> 00:05:20,277 Though the evidence against Hauptmann is totally circumstantial authorities feel certain they found their man 46 00:05:20,916 --> 00:05:24,756 Hauptmann is arraigned in New York and extradited to New Jersey for trial 47 00:05:25,756 --> 00:05:32,634 Flemington, New Jersey is a small and quiet town, but on January 2nd 1935 48 00:05:32,794 --> 00:05:36,953 It's normally tranquil courthouse becomes the focus of world attention 49 00:05:38,113 --> 00:05:42,952 Thousands flock to what newspapers call the most sensational trial of the century 50 00:05:43,872 --> 00:05:48,311 Though he hates the publicity Lindberg attends on every single day 51 00:05:51,511 --> 00:05:53,750 David Willins heads the prosecution 52 00:05:54,750 --> 00:05:59,589 The noted criminal lawyer Edward J. Riley is in charge of Hauptmann's defense 53 00:06:00,229 --> 00:06:05,908 All council are prepared. You do not anticipate any adjournments and we are ready to go 54 00:06:08,068 --> 00:06:10,067 Since the time of his arrest 55 00:06:10,107 --> 00:06:13,667 Hauptmann has claimed to be totally innocent of the charges against him 56 00:06:14,147 --> 00:06:20,106 Now he must defend himself before a vengeful public and a sensation seeking press 57 00:06:21,025 --> 00:06:24,065 For Hauptmann's wife the trial is torture 58 00:06:25,425 --> 00:06:31,064 Judge Thomas Trenchard has allowed cameras in the courtroom so that the world can witness the trial 59 00:06:32,183 --> 00:06:37,622 The latter used to reach the baby becomes a trial symbol and a major piece of evidence 60 00:06:38,822 --> 00:06:43,581 An expert claims that it was partly constructed with wood from Hauptmann's attic 61 00:06:44,901 --> 00:06:50,380 A panel of handwriting experts testify that Hauptmann's writing is identical to that in the ransom notes 62 00:06:51,060 --> 00:06:54,779 Initially Hauptmann seems unperturbed 63 00:06:57,019 --> 00:06:59,778 Now John F. Condon takes the stand 64 00:07:00,378 --> 00:07:08,217 He tells the court that he handed the Lindberg ransom money to a tall finned man with a German accent at a cemetery in the Bronx 65 00:07:09,097 --> 00:07:11,456 The man called himself John 66 00:07:20,375 --> 00:07:27,013 Now Charles Lindberg tells the court that it was Hauptmann's voice that he clearly heard on the night that the ransom was paid 67 00:07:28,613 --> 00:07:35,572 Another witness Amanda's Hawkmouth swears he saw Hauptmann near the Lindberg house on the day before the crime 68 00:07:37,611 --> 00:07:42,051 A host of other eyewitnesses connect Bruno Hauptmann with the ransom money 69 00:07:44,010 --> 00:07:48,329 Hauptmann's robin amniestation and full up tonethal pump and asked for five gallons of gas 70 00:07:48,969 --> 00:07:53,968 I identified Bruno Richard Hauptmann 71 00:07:53,968 --> 00:08:02,087 Bruno Richard Hauptmann was the man who came to the Sheridan Theater and handed me one of the five dollar ransom bills 72 00:08:03,607 --> 00:08:09,965 Now Hauptmann's only real defense lies in his power to convince the court that he did not commit the crime 73 00:08:11,525 --> 00:08:16,084 When he finally takes the stand his denials are not persuasive 74 00:08:18,324 --> 00:08:20,324 Did you lie on the road? 75 00:08:20,324 --> 00:08:22,323 For a time and time again did you? 76 00:08:22,323 --> 00:08:23,323 I did not 77 00:08:23,323 --> 00:08:24,323 You did not? 78 00:08:24,323 --> 00:08:25,323 No 79 00:08:25,323 --> 00:08:26,322 All right 80 00:08:26,322 --> 00:08:31,322 When you were arrested with this Lindberg ransom money you had a funny dollar bill 81 00:08:31,322 --> 00:08:34,321 Lindberg ransom money did they ask you where you got it? 82 00:08:34,321 --> 00:08:36,321 Did they ask? 83 00:08:36,321 --> 00:08:37,320 They did 84 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:40,320 Did you lie to him or did you tell him the truth? 85 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,319 Did you lie to him or did you tell him the truth? 86 00:08:43,319 --> 00:08:45,319 I said nothing to him 87 00:08:45,319 --> 00:08:46,319 You lied didn't you? 88 00:08:46,319 --> 00:08:47,319 I said nothing 89 00:08:47,319 --> 00:08:51,318 The trial of Bruno Hauptmann lasts for 31 days 90 00:08:51,318 --> 00:08:55,317 The jury reaches its verdict in little more than 11 hours 91 00:09:04,316 --> 00:09:08,315 As the news of Hauptmann's conviction is flashed around the world 92 00:09:08,315 --> 00:09:11,314 His wife and his attorney make a final public appearance 93 00:09:12,314 --> 00:09:17,313 Mrs. Hauptmann, you still believe in the innocence of your husband don't you? 94 00:09:17,313 --> 00:09:21,312 I believe and I know my husband is innocent 95 00:09:21,312 --> 00:09:26,312 He did not kidnap the Lindberg baby and he did not murder the Lindberg baby 96 00:09:26,312 --> 00:09:31,311 I wish to appeal to the people of the United States to help me 97 00:09:31,311 --> 00:09:33,310 I have no money 98 00:09:34,310 --> 00:09:37,310 I haven't even got money for my sick baby 99 00:09:41,309 --> 00:09:45,308 At New Jersey's Trenton State Prison Hauptmann waits to die 100 00:09:50,307 --> 00:09:56,306 On April 3rd, 1936 the sentence is carried out 101 00:09:56,306 --> 00:10:01,305 Newsreel cameras at the time recreate Hauptmann's last moments 102 00:10:01,305 --> 00:10:05,304 To the end he will say he is innocent 103 00:10:06,304 --> 00:10:17,302 Why United Press Trenton Hauptmann executed 847 and one-and-a-half 104 00:10:20,302 --> 00:10:24,301 A morbid crowd outside the prison has gathered to watch the first leave 105 00:10:25,301 --> 00:10:31,300 In New York City nearly 40 years after Hauptmann's death new evidence has come to light 106 00:10:34,299 --> 00:10:39,298 Anthony Skaduto, a writer and a former reporter has spent more than 3 years 107 00:10:39,298 --> 00:10:43,297 Investigating the complex details of the Lindberg kidnapping case 108 00:10:46,297 --> 00:10:50,296 Skaduto's probing research has revealed some startling new facts 109 00:10:50,296 --> 00:10:55,295 Back in 1973 I got a call from a man who had been on the fringes of organized crime for many years 110 00:10:55,295 --> 00:10:58,295 I had been the mafia expert so called for the New York Post 111 00:10:58,295 --> 00:11:06,293 He said he could prove that Hauptmann was absolutely innocent of the crime of kidnapping and killing the Lindberg baby 112 00:11:06,293 --> 00:11:12,292 I began to check into some of his evidence and I eventually got into the files of the Bronx District Attorney's Office 113 00:11:12,292 --> 00:11:17,291 And I found out that the Lindberg case was a crime that was not a crime 114 00:11:17,291 --> 00:11:20,291 But the Lindberg case was a crime that was not a crime that was not a crime 115 00:11:20,291 --> 00:11:24,290 So I started to search into the files of the Bronx District Attorney's Office and the New York City Police Department 116 00:11:24,290 --> 00:11:28,289 And I found strong evidence that Hauptmann indeed had been the victim of a frame-up 117 00:11:28,289 --> 00:11:33,288 I found evidence that all the eyewitness testimony had been… 118 00:11:33,288 --> 00:11:39,287 The eyewitnesses were either liars or mistaken 119 00:11:39,287 --> 00:11:44,286 That the expert testimony, the expert witnesses, distorted in order to help convict Hauptmann 120 00:11:44,286 --> 00:11:47,966 and that the physical evidence, every piece of physical evidence, 121 00:11:47,966 --> 00:11:51,965 was either manufactured by the police or distorted by them to convict Haukman. 122 00:11:51,965 --> 00:11:54,684 And I feel absolutely certain that Haukman was innocent. 123 00:11:54,684 --> 00:12:02,283 Was Bruno Richard Haukman deliberately sent to his death? 124 00:12:02,283 --> 00:12:10,921 The old Lindberg House in Hopewell, New Jersey is today a state home for juvenile delinquents. 125 00:12:11,881 --> 00:12:16,440 The corner of the second floor was once the Lindberg's nursery. 126 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:21,479 The kidnapper entered through this window to reach the sleeping baby. 127 00:12:21,479 --> 00:12:25,239 The baby was then carried down this shaky wooden ladder. 128 00:12:25,239 --> 00:12:30,278 But did Bruno Haukman build it and then steal the Lindberg child? 129 00:12:30,278 --> 00:12:33,077 You never took your shoes into that bedroom, did you? 130 00:12:33,077 --> 00:12:34,357 I never wore them. 131 00:12:34,357 --> 00:12:37,157 You never took that ladder off their either, did you? 132 00:12:37,157 --> 00:12:38,116 I didn't build them. 133 00:12:38,116 --> 00:12:40,836 You didn't take that ladder off your attic either, did you? 134 00:12:41,076 --> 00:12:42,196 No, I didn't. 135 00:12:42,196 --> 00:12:46,195 One of the major pieces of physical evidence against Haukman was the ladder. 136 00:12:46,195 --> 00:12:52,034 The police in prosecution claimed that Haukman climbed into his attic, 137 00:12:52,034 --> 00:12:56,193 cut a piece of floorboard out of the attic, went back down to his apartment, 138 00:12:56,193 --> 00:12:59,792 two floors down, back to his garage, in which there was a great deal of lumber, 139 00:13:01,232 --> 00:13:03,712 to use this piece of wood to construct the ladder. 140 00:13:04,352 --> 00:13:10,351 And an expert witness testified that the grains of wood from the remaining piece 141 00:13:10,431 --> 00:13:15,550 in the attic floor matched precisely the rail of the ladder that they claimed 142 00:13:15,550 --> 00:13:17,069 Haukman took out of the attic. 143 00:13:18,269 --> 00:13:22,268 The fact is, you could see very clearly when you put the two pieces together, 144 00:13:22,268 --> 00:13:28,107 then in order to make the grains match, one has to shove one of the pieces up higher 145 00:13:28,107 --> 00:13:30,507 in a very unnatural distorted position. 146 00:13:32,507 --> 00:13:36,986 Based on this and other evidence, Skiduto believes that the wood in the ladder 147 00:13:36,986 --> 00:13:40,185 may have been tampered with while in the possession of the police. 148 00:13:41,225 --> 00:13:45,464 The ladder, however, is only a part of the evidence that Skiduto uncovered. 149 00:13:47,784 --> 00:13:52,423 The woods about a mile from the Lindberg House is the site where the baby's body was found. 150 00:13:55,302 --> 00:13:57,862 It was quickly buried in a shallow grave. 151 00:13:58,902 --> 00:14:03,221 Skiduto discovered evidence that the body was not the missing child. 152 00:14:04,101 --> 00:14:09,140 The body that was found was in such a severe state of decomposition 153 00:14:09,780 --> 00:14:12,899 that the family doctor on looking at the corpse said, 154 00:14:12,899 --> 00:14:15,619 if you gave me a million dollars, I could not identify this thing. 155 00:14:16,578 --> 00:14:21,298 Lindberg made the identification solely on the basis of counting the number of teeth. 156 00:14:22,657 --> 00:14:26,497 Any child of the same age, generally millions of children of the same age, 157 00:14:26,497 --> 00:14:27,776 would have the same number of teeth. 158 00:14:28,336 --> 00:14:33,055 The chances are that that body was not the body of the Lindberg baby. 159 00:14:33,455 --> 00:14:36,175 Which means that no murder has been proved. 160 00:14:36,175 --> 00:14:39,694 Which means that Hauptmann was absolutely wrongly convicted 161 00:14:39,694 --> 00:14:41,134 forgetting all the other evidence. 162 00:14:41,134 --> 00:14:43,454 He was wrongly convicted because they could not prove a murder. 163 00:14:45,613 --> 00:14:49,612 When police discovered ransom money hidden in Hauptmann's garage, 164 00:14:49,612 --> 00:14:53,612 Hauptmann claimed that the cash belonged to a man named Isidor Fish. 165 00:14:55,451 --> 00:14:59,851 Fish, he said, was a business partner who had gone to Europe and then died. 166 00:15:03,290 --> 00:15:08,009 Hauptmann insisted he discovered the cash in a box Fish had left for safekeeping. 167 00:15:08,889 --> 00:15:13,448 The explanation seemed farfetched and was dubbed the Fishy Story. 168 00:15:14,968 --> 00:15:20,247 I found in the files of the District Attorney's Office and the New York City Police Department 169 00:15:20,247 --> 00:15:24,966 that evidence to show that Hauptmann and Fish indeed were business partners. 170 00:15:24,966 --> 00:15:28,725 Evidence that was suppressed to destroy Hauptmann's alibi, 171 00:15:29,365 --> 00:15:32,085 to create this Fishy Story that Hauptmann was telling. 172 00:15:33,204 --> 00:15:38,563 Also, evidence that Hauptmann and Fish did not meet until four or five, 173 00:15:38,563 --> 00:15:40,323 three, four months after the kidnapping. 174 00:15:40,883 --> 00:15:44,162 So that there was no possibility that they had been partners even in the kidnapping 175 00:15:44,162 --> 00:15:45,842 and seizing of the ransom. 176 00:15:45,842 --> 00:15:49,681 All of this was suppressed in order to destroy Hauptmann's alibis. 177 00:15:51,681 --> 00:15:55,200 Handwriting played an important role in the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann. 178 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,999 The prosecution's chief handwriting expert was Albert Osborn. 179 00:16:02,959 --> 00:16:09,838 The physical evidence connecting the writing of all of the Lindbergh ransom notes 180 00:16:10,718 --> 00:16:23,115 and the writing signed by Hauptmann is, in my opinion, irresistible, unanswerable, and overwhelming. 181 00:16:24,395 --> 00:16:30,154 Scuduto learned that the handwriting comparisons were made largely on the basis of numerous 182 00:16:30,154 --> 00:16:33,993 forced dictations taken from Hauptmann at police headquarters. 183 00:16:35,433 --> 00:16:39,752 Hauptmann's written numbers could never be shown to match those on the ransom notes, 184 00:16:40,792 --> 00:16:42,712 and there is evidence of tampering. 185 00:16:44,631 --> 00:16:50,070 In 1977, I was contacted by a woman named Hilda Zanglein. 186 00:16:50,870 --> 00:16:53,190 She was a defense handwriting expert. 187 00:16:53,990 --> 00:16:59,509 She was dismissed because she said that she would get up and testify that the original 188 00:16:59,509 --> 00:17:04,388 ransom notes had been tampered with to make them look more like Hauptmann's handwriting. 189 00:17:04,948 --> 00:17:13,426 And she sent me an example of what she saw, and what they basically did, she said, was to round 190 00:17:13,426 --> 00:17:17,425 off letters in the ransom notes so they would look more like Hauptmann's handwriting. 191 00:17:18,385 --> 00:17:21,905 She said it was very obvious, and she was not permitted to testify. 192 00:17:21,905 --> 00:17:24,064 That evidence was never introduced by the defense. 193 00:17:25,024 --> 00:17:29,903 During the trial, many witnesses did take the stand to testify against Hauptmann. 194 00:17:30,943 --> 00:17:35,902 Amanda's Hawkmouth pointed to Hauptmann as the man he saw driving near the Lindberg 195 00:17:35,902 --> 00:17:37,822 House on the day before the kidnapping. 196 00:17:40,141 --> 00:17:45,260 I found documents to show that about two months after this event, Amanda's Hawkmouth applied 197 00:17:45,260 --> 00:17:50,859 for welfare in New York City, and it was granted because the welfare agent said, quote, 198 00:17:50,859 --> 00:17:54,619 he is almost totally blind, close quote. He could not have identified anyone. 199 00:17:56,058 --> 00:18:00,138 John F. Condon played a major role in the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann. 200 00:18:01,017 --> 00:18:06,856 Dr. Condon was a garrulous old man who very, very honestly wanted to help recover the Lindberg 201 00:18:06,856 --> 00:18:11,256 child, and he injected himself into the case and was accepted as an intermediary. 202 00:18:12,135 --> 00:18:17,414 When Hauptmann was arrested, Condon was asked to identify him to see whether Hauptmann was the 203 00:18:17,414 --> 00:18:23,733 man to whom Condon had passed the ransom money. After looking at Hauptmann and even talking with 204 00:18:23,733 --> 00:18:30,692 him and shaking his hand, Condon stepped out of the identification room and told police and the FBI 205 00:18:30,692 --> 00:18:36,691 agents that he could not identify this man. He said this is not the man. Condon would not identify 206 00:18:36,691 --> 00:18:43,410 Hauptmann until over three weeks before the trial. In the interim, he had been coerced by the police. 207 00:18:43,410 --> 00:18:48,929 One, he was threatened with violence, and two, he was threatened with arrest as an accomplice if he 208 00:18:48,929 --> 00:18:55,487 would not identify Hauptmann. Hauptmann was also identified by Charles Lindberg himself. 209 00:18:56,607 --> 00:19:00,287 In the atmosphere of the trial, the testimony was damning. 210 00:19:02,286 --> 00:19:07,485 Lindberg identified Hauptmann's voice as the voice he heard in the cemetery almost two and a half 211 00:19:07,565 --> 00:19:14,204 years before speaking only two words, hey doctor, and that identification cinched it in the jury's 212 00:19:14,204 --> 00:19:19,083 mind at the very early stages. The jury's later told reporters that when they heard Lindberg say 213 00:19:19,083 --> 00:19:22,922 that it was Hauptmann's voice that spoke those words the night the ransom was passed, they were 214 00:19:22,922 --> 00:19:30,121 convinced Hauptmann was guilty. The thing is that Lindberg, after Hauptmann's arrest, heard Hauptmann 215 00:19:30,121 --> 00:19:34,840 speak those words again in the Bronx District Attorney's Office, and for a full week he could 216 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:40,599 not make up his mind. Not until the police had relayed to him all the evidence that they had 217 00:19:40,599 --> 00:19:47,718 compiled against Hauptmann, much of which I've later found has been tampered with, manufactured. 218 00:19:47,718 --> 00:19:52,997 All that evidence was given to Lindberg as the reason that Hauptmann was indeed the kidnapper, 219 00:19:52,997 --> 00:19:57,796 and only after that did Lindberg say, right, I'll identify his voice, and he did at the trial. 220 00:19:58,676 --> 00:20:04,195 Was Bruno Hauptmann really guilty of the kidnap and murder of the Lindberg child? 221 00:20:05,635 --> 00:20:14,353 For Anthony Scuduto, the answer is clear. At best, Hauptmann's role, I feel this strongly, 222 00:20:14,913 --> 00:20:20,432 was that he had no connection in any way with the kidnapping nor with the extortion, that 223 00:20:20,752 --> 00:20:27,791 his greatest part in it was to have taken the box full of money from Isidore Fish, not knowing 224 00:20:27,791 --> 00:20:32,190 it was money, not discovering it was money until months after he learned Fish had died in Germany. 225 00:20:33,230 --> 00:20:39,148 At worst, he could have been the receiver of stolen goods, that is, he could have known that 226 00:20:39,148 --> 00:20:45,627 this box actually contained money, and that it contained hot money. I think what happened is, 227 00:20:45,867 --> 00:20:49,787 once they found Hauptmann in possession of the $15,000 in ransom money, 228 00:20:51,066 --> 00:20:58,185 they believed firmly that he was the guilty party, individually, police officers, distorted evidence, 229 00:20:58,185 --> 00:21:03,144 even manufactured evidence, and suppressed evidence that would have proved his innocence, 230 00:21:03,144 --> 00:21:08,263 because they were so firmly convinced he was guilty, and they sent him to the electric chair. 231 00:21:08,583 --> 00:21:20,661 If the Lindberg baby was not the victim of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who then kidnapped the child? 232 00:21:22,421 --> 00:21:26,260 Without any real conclusive evidence, because I have not been able to get into the files of the 233 00:21:26,260 --> 00:21:32,499 New Jersey State Police, I feel rather strongly that Isidore Fish had some role in it, perhaps 234 00:21:32,499 --> 00:21:36,178 as the kidnapper, perhaps simply as the extortionist, and it could have been two different plots, 235 00:21:36,978 --> 00:21:42,497 but Isidore Fish had been a swindler. He was involved with underworld figures, 236 00:21:42,497 --> 00:21:50,016 and he had seen the area of the Lindberg home weeks, days, months, perhaps, before the kidnapping, 237 00:21:50,575 --> 00:21:56,574 also that Isidore Fish was known to have had business dealings and personal friends in the 238 00:21:56,574 --> 00:22:01,773 area of the Lindberg home, the Sauerland Mountains. In conclusion, I feel strongly that Isidore Fish, 239 00:22:02,013 --> 00:22:06,333 anyone, had a large hand in the kidnapping and war extortion. 240 00:22:10,172 --> 00:22:14,331 He was perhaps the most controversial explorer in Egyptian history. 241 00:22:14,331 --> 00:22:17,770 An ex-surface star goes digging Friday on ancient mysteries. 242 00:22:17,770 --> 00:22:21,370 Now they were symbols of pride, but did they serve another purpose? 243 00:22:21,370 --> 00:22:26,969 Danny Glover unfurls the Union and Confederate flags on Civil War Journal, next on Andy's. 244 00:22:26,969 --> 00:22:28,329 It's time well spent.