Cemetery John
Subtitle: the undiscovered mastermind behind the Lindbergh kidnapping
By: Robert Zorn
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781590208564
Subjects: Kidnapping; Kidnapping, 1932
Description: For seventy-five years, the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son has gone unsolved. Evidence, opinion, and logic have discredited the notion that Bruno Richard Hauptmann--electrocuted in 1936--acted alone. In this meticulous and authoritative account of the crime, the trial, and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices --including the mastermind --he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership, which would shake every class and culture of American society. Using personal possessions and documents, never-before seen photographs, new forensic evidence, and extensive research,
Notes: Includes bibliographical notes (p. [285]-310) and index.