le, by Anthony Scaduto (1976) this view argues that the entire case against Bruno Hauptmann was a frame up, and the legal proceedings a railroad. The authorities, according to the Scaduto school of thought, were under tremendous public and political pressure to solve the high profile Lindbergh kidnapping case. When no genuine suspect emerged, they used a mixture of real circumstancial evidence and bogus "scientific" evidence to pin the crime on Hauptmann.
Scaduto goes further however, to suggest that in fact the investigators not only had reason to know that Hauptmann had not committed the crime, but to believe that QQQ had. But because this would force abandonment of the case they had built against Bruno Hauptmann, they chose not to pursue the leads, but instead covered them up and deliberately framed Hauptmann.
The Lindbergh kidnap murder case has several resonances to current events. The publicity surrounding the trial of Bruno Hauptmann led to many years of restrictions on media coverage of trials (e.g., the barrin
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