[Seven Of Nine]

Truth: My Grandmother, who had come to the US from Scotland, on her own, found work as a nanny. She befriended other area staff including another nanny who worked next door, that nanny's name was Betty Gow. My Grandmother used to tell us the story of the night she went next door, as she often did, to meet Betty for tea late in the evening after work was done for the day. She recalled to us one night she was walking through the yard to meet Betty, looking to the left she noted a wooden ladder up against the side of the house. She and Betty went about enjoying their tea. That was the ladder (so I was told) used by the kidnapper to enter the babies room and escape with the child that very evening. After some investigations had taken place, she was given permission to leave the country, she returned to Scotland where she remained until WWII.

I never had any reason to doubt my grandmother. Small world.

[bloodgasm]

Didn't they nab the wrong guy...?

[kboukes]

pretty spooky link with your nana!

[carkees]

Kid was killed shortly after the kidnapping. It was quite a forensic miracle how they caught the killer/kidnapper, considering the tools they had to work with those days!

[DanteAntonelli]

Originally Posted by carkees ↗

Kid was killed shortly after the kidnapping. It was quite a forensic miracle how they caught the killer/kidnapper, considering the tools they had to work with those days!

or maybe they didn't, because Bruno Hauptmann continued proclaiming his innocence until he was seated on the electric chair (knowing full well that his fate was sealed so there was no point to maintain his innocence as it will not save him)

I'm very suspicious that the guy who killed that baby lived a good long life without paying for his hineous crime

[carkees]

Originally Posted by DanteAntonelli ↗

or maybe they didn't, because Bruno Hauptmann continued proclaiming his innocence until he was seated on the electric chair (knowing full well that his fate was sealed so there was no point to maintain his innocence as it will not save him)

I'm very suspicious that the guy who killed that baby lived a good long life without paying for his hineous crime

We will probably never know.....

[Pogrom]

Im pretty sure they dropped the baby while climbing down the ladder. Died instantly.

[layneinchains]

He used to play pranks on his wife by hiding and taking the baby and all. Some think he was playing another trick on his wife and accidentally dropped the baby.

[SwanSong]

Originally Posted by Seven Of Nine ↗

Truth: My Grandmother, who had come to the US from Scotland, on her own, found work as a nanny. She befriended other area staff including another nanny who worked next door, that nanny's name was Betty Gow. My Grandmother used to tell us the story of the night she went next door, as she often did, to meet Betty for tea late in the evening after work was done for the day. She recalled to us one night she was walking through the yard to meet Betty, looking to the left she noted a wooden ladder up against the side of the house. She and Betty went about enjoying their tea. That was the ladder (so I was told) used by the kidnapper to enter the babies room and escape with the child that very evening. After some investigations had taken place, she was given permission to leave the country, she returned to Scotland where she remained until WWII.

I never had any reason to doubt my grandmother. Small world.

I've read reports of rumors that the baby's death was accidental, as he fell from the top of the ladder in the process of the kidnapping...have you ever heard anything that could support this rumor?

[Kelxxx]

Originally Posted by DanteAntonelli ↗

or maybe they didn't, because Bruno Hauptmann continued proclaiming his innocence until he was seated on the electric chair (knowing full well that his fate was sealed so there was no point to maintain his innocence as it will not save him)

I'm very suspicious that the guy who killed that baby lived a good long life without paying for his hineous crime

I believe he was also offered money (which would have helped his widow & child) if he confessed to a Newspaper but turned it down.

'The Airman and the Carpenter by Ludovic Kennedy' is an excellent read. Read it years ago, it convinced me Hauptman was innocent.