SESHET
THE CURSE OF ST. LINDBERGH
A new book by Deirdre Kamber Todd
In 1932, the son of world-famous Charles Lindbergh and socialite Anne Morrow was kidnapped out of his crib. No prints, no damage, no cries from the baby. Everyone was home.
The kidnappers sent fourteen ransom notes. These notes empathized with the Lindbergh's plight. Each assured them the baby was fine, eating well and healthy. Each were signed with an elaborate, colorful symbol and no name. None of them, however, returned the baby.
Less than two months after the kidnapping, the baby's mutilated body was found less than four miles from the Lindberghs' home.
Due to the overwhelming efforts of the State Police, at a cost of more than 1.2 million dollars in 1935, based solely on circumstantial evidence, Bruno RIchard Hauptman, a poor German immigrant carpenter, was executed for the crime. But he did not commit the crime. Someone else entirely, a victim and a saint to the nation at the time, was behind the crime. Someone who, even today, has never been considered.
Moments before his execution, Hauptmann cursed those who wrongly convicted him. Surely enough, within a decade, dozens of those involved in his prosecution were destroyed: suicide, murder, car explosions, jail, insanity, defrocking, humiliation, fatal alcoholism, and stress-related medical deaths.
was the baby kidnapped as reported by the lindberghs?
No. Why?
Because nothing adds up: the testimony, the timeline, the the evidence, and the witnesses' statements.
The Timeline
The Lindberghs and their housestaff could not provide even one consistent statement as to what they did on March 1st, 1932. The timeline they provided, moreover, makes the baby's disappearance impossible on March 1st. The baby would have to been taken within twenty minutes. That would mean they lied about the disappearance of the baby.
The Physical Evidence: the Ladder, the Footprints, the Window, and the FIngerprints
- The ladder was just a prop intended to mislead. The wood in the ladder also did not match the wood from the defendant's attic when first obtained.
- The footprints outside the nursery fit neither the testimony nor the defendant.
- Except for the statements of the Lindberghs, no evidence shows the "broken" window was not broken.
- The absence of fingerprints is completely explainable, but not as the Lindberghs or their staff theorized.
The Ransom Notes
Despite the eight handwriting experts who testified for the State Prosecution, they were wrong. The defendant did not write the ransom notes.
the signature of each of the 14 ransom notes is a Symbol
Like the Zodiac Killer...
There is no signature on any of the fourteen ransom notes, just a symbol to be solved.
How was it made? What does it mean? How does it relate to Lindbergh?
No one figured it out to date.
All of these questions will be answered in the Curse of St. Lindbergh.
DOES THE RANSOM NOTE SYMBOL LOOK FAMILIAR?
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St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, Italy