Texana
Overreaching
Bruno Hauptmann, the Lindbergh kidnapper, received a lot of favorable post-trial/execution publicity about his innocence, but when you read the details of the case, you find he was discovered with the ransom money in his garage--for which he had no explanation.
The best and simplest explanation for the Lindbergh child's death was that the kidnapper dropped the child as he carried the baby down the ladder. Wouldn't be that easy to carry a baby and maintain a grip on a ladder rung at the same time.
It's a fair point to bring up that the public reactions of people are not necessarily an indicator of guilt or innocence, although some actions are so egregious as to immediately spark a "he/she must be guilty or crazy" reaction--such as Darlie Routier literally dancing with silly string on her sons' graves, or Scott Peterson hastening to sell his home and his wife's car before even six months had passed. Those were actions, though, not attitudes, and I think attitudes can be misread--another reason we can't use that as indicator of guilt. (Not saying the Ramseys are innocent, just that I don't think their behavior can be used as a sign one way or the other.)
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The best and simplest explanation for the Lindbergh child's death was that the kidnapper dropped the child as he carried the baby down the ladder. Wouldn't be that easy to carry a baby and maintain a grip on a ladder rung at the same time.
It's a fair point to bring up that the public reactions of people are not necessarily an indicator of guilt or innocence, although some actions are so egregious as to immediately spark a "he/she must be guilty or crazy" reaction--such as Darlie Routier literally dancing with silly string on her sons' graves, or Scott Peterson hastening to sell his home and his wife's car before even six months had passed. Those were actions, though, not attitudes, and I think attitudes can be misread--another reason we can't use that as indicator of guilt. (Not saying the Ramseys are innocent, just that I don't think their behavior can be used as a sign one way or the other.)
Thank you for the nice welcome to the JBR forum!