Centro de Documentação da PJ
Analítico de Periódico
CD 326
90 years later : revisting the Lindbergh kidnapping case / Marie Durina
Journal of the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners, Vol. 24, nº 2 (December 2021), p. 3-14
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SEQUESTRO DE CRIANÇAS, CRIME CONTRA CRIANÇAS, EXTORSÃO, ESCRITA MANUAL, EXAME À ESCRITA, ANÁLISE DE VESTÍGIOS
Nearly ninety years ago, the kidnapping of the baby son of a famous aviator Charles Lindbergh occured in Hopewell, New Jersey. So heinous was the act, and its tragic outcome when the baby was found dead after a ramsom was paid, that the case would late come to be known in the collective public mind as "The Crime of the Century". The ensuing investigation took over 2 years and involved, among other things, the forensic analysis of handwriting. The testemony provided at trial by eight forensic document examiners identified German immigrant Bruno Hauptmann as the writer of the ramson notes and other communications. The trial also involved testimony about wood identification by a wood expert, the first of its kind to make a headline news. The case, investigation, evidence, and testimony are reviewed and summarized here in the hope it will provide an interesting retrospective for the experts of today.
