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Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...
Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture...
Wall of Privacy. In dreamlike slow motion. Author Waller unfolds all the false leads, the endless waits, the newspaper clamors and police tricks of another day-and finally the bitter legal battles over reprieve and execution stays that Caryl Chessman might have admired for their exploitation of the law's delay...
Sloppily conducted by both sides, the Hauptmann trial raised more questions than it answered, and Waller can do little more than separate the obvious loose ends: Had there been a gang involved? How could Hauptmann, without inside help, have known that the Lindberghs would be at Hopewell on that particular night? Why had one of the family's servants killed herself...
...mind, as Author Waller suggests, millions of others shared Haupt-mann's guilt. "They," he had told his wife when it happened, "have stolen our baby." To Lindbergh, "they" meant the clamoring public, seeking to haul down the wall of privacy that he sought desperately to erect about his family life...