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Monday, May 14, 2001 |
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Dena Denise Rush |
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Subject: Excellent Site! I have always thought that there was something fishy about you Grandpa's conviction. Another thing that is odd is that from reading about him, he had the type of drive and the type of mind that wanted to solve the case. As if the......mystery drove him. I believe that he was a brilliant man. And every single item I have ever read about him references what a brilliant detective he was. Not the type of person likely to "beat" a confession out of a person. There would have been no challenge in that. Any good ol' boy cop could do that. Ellis was too smart to do that. It would not have SOLVED anything. And I believe that he was....driven to solve crime. That is why he had such an outstanding reputation. You do not build a reputation such as he did with beating people. It would not hold up. And logically, why would he do that on what probably would have turned out to be the most famous case of his career? No, it is just not logical. I do know this: I am a regular poster on the Lindy hoax board. And I do, and will always believe, that Charles Lindbergh was involved. But I also believe that if your Grandpa said Wendel was involved, then Wendel was involved. I am going to keep visiting your site. Keep up the great work! |
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August 23, 2001 |
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Lilyan Sahol Sutter |
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I really enjoyed viewing the website with the pictures and information which has been gathered. It must have been a lot of work and dedication. Great job Bill! Lilyan(Ellis's Granddaughter) |
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Nov. 17, 2001 |
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Harald Hahn |
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[email protected] |
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I would like to extend to the family of Eillis Parker my great appreciation and respect for Ellis Parker. From what everything that I read about Ellis, I find that he was an extraordinary personality. He dedicated his life in the pursuit of truth and justice, even though it cost him personally and his family personally. Specifically, I would like to thank him personally, if that was possible for his pursuit of justice in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. As a retired NYC police officer, and a medical legal investigator, I have followed this case closely. It is my personal opinion that Ellis Parker was right all along. However, justice not being blind, he also became a victim. What most people fail to realize is that there are many victims to the Lindbergh kidnapping, and ---- Ellis Parker was one of them. Please, again accept my profound and deep respect and admiration for the contribution that Ellis Parker made. He is certainly NOT fogotten. |
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December 15, 2001 |
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Donna |
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[email protected] |
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I truly enjoyed reading about the Lindbergh kidnapping. The problem I have is how did they identify that this WAS the baby's body? I don't think Bruno Hauptman was the man. It had to be someone they knew or they knew more than they said. There seems to have been a rush decision on the courts behalf or even before then. |
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January 17, 2002 |
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Emily |
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Withheld by request |
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We are studying the Lindbergh Case in school and for extra credit for the midterms I have to write about what I think happened. I think the police totally twisted things around. They were a bunch of egomaniacs. They built a whole case out of nothing. I can't believe that these men were willing to have something like that on their conscience. How could a man like Hauptmann, who himself had a child and a wife that he loved commit such a crime?...He didn't do it. He is innocent. I think Paul Wendell did it. He wrote out a whole confession. |
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Feb. 1, 2002 |
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Mark Trope |
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I feel that there are many unanswered questions about the Lindberg affair. I read that recently Hauptmans missing chisel was found at the NJ State Police Archives. It does appear that witnesses were bought, or cajoled into identifying Hauptman.
Only 1/3 of the money was recovered, where is the rest? It is reported that Fisch paid his boat ticket with gold backs. NJ could not find the missing people, so they claimed Hauptman acted alone. Perhaps Hauptman, acting with Fisch & another person concocted the randsom demand after the child disappeared. I doubt Hauptman killed the child, or abducted him. |
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Apr. 1, 2002 |
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Marilyn Hunt |
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[email protected] |
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Why does this matter so very much..equal justice and we cannot as a people live with a history based on lies. The danger of placing a man above the law and making him the super Nordic hero was a Nazi ideal and yet this was done with Lindbergh..the most likely truth is that he dropped the fragile, and low bone density [due to the mother's poor state of nutrition..fashionable Ivy League girl who got the paper doll man of her dreams] on his head while trying to strenghthen the child through what he thought of as exercises. Mrs. Roosevelt hung her baby outside the window in a cage following a fad doctors advice until the neighbors noticed. The insecure Eagle believed his own publicity and was cautioned by Will Rogers on the rough handling of the child. Because kiddnapping was all the news, the cover-up began...the deaths that followed, of the maid who was a devote Catholic and could not bear to talk to the police, and Richard Hauptmann are the evil consequence of the failure of Linbergh to take responsibility..he would not be able to be a hero any longer..his wife was in love with the famous hero, not the man..a man who had a very troubled past including another kidnapping hoax involving his wife's sister. I just saw footage on Fox taken of the baby in his crib from the window and yet the ladder was supposed to have been brought by the kidnapper. Also Hauptmann was paid to work as a carpenter and the ladder was unsound and crude..was a ladder made by the police from wood at the Hauptmann's at a later time .there was a shocking lack of chain of evidence but clearly there had to have been a ladder there to take those movies..why were people so eager to kill someone..like in the work To Kill A Mockingbird nobody wanted to think that the Lindbergh were disturbed people. Can we learn from this and try to compensate the surviving son for this injustice.... |
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April 7, 2002 |
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Milo Savage |
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[email protected] |
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This is indeed an important site. William Ellis Fullerton is to be congratulated for making so much information about Ellis Parker available to the public. He was a great detective, a great American who suffered terribly for making the right ethical choices in a corrupt political environment. May his name never be shrouded by ignorance and obscurity again. |
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April 25, 2002 |
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Roger Parris |
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[email protected] |
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Your filial devotion is commendable. It would be good to see a complete new biography of your grandfather as Pratt's book was already rare when I was a boy in the fifties. I met Pratt once at the SciCon in Philadelphia, or possibly Cleveland a few years later. Either way it was the first time I personally heard your grandfather's name mentioned, and I found a copy of "The Cunning Mulatto " in the Mansfield, Ohio, Public Library. I have not seen one on the bookstalls since. Pratt was generally a great believer in the status quo but he definitely, by the time I talked to him at least,and perhaps always,that Hauptmann and your grandfather had been set up. So far as Hauptmann was concerned,I had long heard the same thing from my own father who knew Betty Gow in Ritman, Ohio, where she had close friends, and where my father met her on several occasions in his late bachelor days. He was married,or at least engaged, to my mother when he met her for the last time prior to what she believed to be a final return to Scotland.As on previous occasions she was extremely troubled by the evidence she had been required to give in the case. She adored Mrs.Lindbergh and would never say a word against her. But the Colonel? I heard that story of the "joke "that he played once before and Miss Gow's immediate suspicions the second time around years before they were common knowledge. Miss Gow said there was no way she could have identified that baby's body. But she could not go against the father. As she made her identification a considerable time before Lindbergh physically arrived on the scene, the inference is plain that she had been instructed by long distance phone to identify a body the father could never have seen. My father was quite convinced that is exactly what she intended to convey. The thought the baby had not been murdered was the only thing which made the series of false identifications which she had been compelled to make bearable. Sincerely yours, Roger Parris |
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April 25, 2002 |
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Candy |
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[email protected] |
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Ellis Parker's theory about the Lindbergh case is way off base. The guilty party paid for his crime in the electric chair in 1936. Other than that Ellis was a great detective |
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May 6, 2002 |
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Genevieve Fosa |
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[email protected] |
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People seem to forget how pervasive the ideas of Eugenics were during those years. Personally, I believe Lindbergh got rid of the child, because he (the child) was 'defective' and traded the live child for a dead one. |
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May 22-28, 2002 |
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RON REED |
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[email protected] |
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(WEBMASTER'S Note: This is a composite of 3 emails from the same person over a 5 day period.) My name is Ron Reed, I've lived in Mt. Holly all my 52 years and I remember hearing my Grandmother and Mother talking about Mr. Ellis Parker and they always felt that Lindy knew more about the kidnapping than he let on. I've also talked to a lot of the old timer's around town and not a one had a bad word or anything else wrong, for that matter, to say about Mr. Parker. Most everyone thinks that Mr.lindbergh seems to know more than he let out. I believe that he did also. In fact they seem to feel that he was RAILROADED. After reading several articles on this matter I have to agree with them that Mr. Parker was framed. I hope that the Parker family keeps going and will be able to clear Mr. Ellis Parker's name. As for me I became interested in Mr. Parker as a result of doing tours at the old county jail museum on High Street in Mt. Holly. In this one room (The Old Warden's Office) we have Mr. Parker's safe where he kept all his important papers on a lot of his cases. After reading the Questions and Answers section of this website I feel that it's a sad situation that Prosecutor Wilentz could believe that Mr. Parker or anyone for that matter would think that they could kidnap and beat a confession from a onetime Lawyer then turn him in and get away with it. This in itself is harder to believe than all the CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE that convicted Mr. Bruno Richard Hauptmann. MR. PARKER BELIEVER, RON REED |
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July 2, 2002 |
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Roger Leonardis |
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I have been reading about the Hauptmann case for over 10 years, having digested about 8 books on the subject. Hauptmann was, of course, innocent of the crime. I found this web page searching for information about Ellis Parker because of his involvement in the case. I wish there was more information about this man. I also would like to see the "confession" Mr. Parker elicited from Paul Wendell. Many books speak of the confession, but I have never found a copy of it. Mr. Parker's expertise speaks for itself. He must have had something, and his instincts told him that they had the wrong man. And that was something he was seldom wrong about. Even books that dismiss his involvement in the case (i.e. George Waller's "Kidnap")honor him and his detective abilities. I think in this case he just ran out of time. His involvement into the case was very late. The entire country was convinced of Hauptmann's guilt, and the bloodthirsty mob wanted the execution to take place quickly. To many, this is reason enough to abolish the death penalty. While I still believe in capitol punishment for some, it is obvious that no one should be put to death based on circumstantial evidence. |
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July 9, 2002 |
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Tanialee Bowman |
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Omitted by request |
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I truly believe that Ellis Parker was the greatest detective because of what i've read of his involvement in The Lindbergh kidnapping crime and I don't believe that he or his son should have gone to prison. |
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July 22, 2002 |
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Steve |
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That the old fox of Mount Holly was one of America's greatest detectives can be best judged by the fact that of the 236 murder cases he worked on he solved 226 of them,quite a batting average. What happened to him for his lifetime of service was typical of Jersey Justice |
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September 2, 2002 |
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Allen |
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Thank you for a very professional presentation of the case against Hauptmann being the Lindbergh baby kidnapper.
The Questions that are presented, however, are given a certain "spin" in advance. For example, it is claimed that a reporter "admitted writing the address and phone number of John Condon" on the closet board.
This is not correct. Forty years later, three OTHER reporters made this claim, long after Cassidy was dead. The man in question, Tom Cassidy, was never asked himself, nor made any documented admission. This is strictly a rumor - of which there were quite a few.
It is more useful to read what Hauptmann himself said on 3 separate occasions: On Sept 25 and 26, 1934, he admitted doing the writing himself - at the Bronx Courthouse. He went into remarkable detail of how he did it - far beyond "yes" or "no". He said he was relining his shelves with newspaper and copied the info from that source. However, Condon's phone # was never published since his role was unknown during the negotiations. Afterwards, the # was unlisted. On Oct 24, 1934, at the Flemington jail, he again admitted writing Condon address and phone - to none other than Condon himself! He said that carpenters frequently had this habit of writing on wood.
Only at the Trial, did Hauptmann reverse gear and deny that he did. It was very incriminating to have made the admission 3 times - even the Court stenographer was called to testify as to its accuracy.
Unlike the Cassidy claim, these 3 instances of Hauptmann's admission are fully documented and can still be perused today. If one digs further, one learns that Cassidy didn't even write the story in the Daily News - so his supposed "motive" is not valid either.
Accurate information is very important in analyzing any crime case - I am sure that Ellis Parker would be the first to agree?
Allen
http://www.lindytruth.org Editor's Note: Allen certainly makes good points and those who would like to investigate further should try his web site cited above. It is one of the best. I think though that perhaps too much is taken in today's context instead of the context of the 1930's. Hauptmann, after being beaten, may have admitted writing something that he did or didn't do in the belief that he would be cleared of the kidnapping charge and only convicted of the extortion crime. I still believe, as did Ellis Parker, that there were two crimes, the kidnapping, which Hauptmann had nothing to do with and the extortion, in which he might have been guilty of conspiring with others. |
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Sept. 27, 2002 |
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Michael |
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[email protected] |
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Great site, and thanks for the information on such a great man.
Ellis Parker was the best investigator involved in this case. Whenever I am at the NJSP archives and I come across one of his reports made to either Gov. Moore or Gov. Hoffman, I immediately hand it over to Mark Falzini (Archivist) to be copied. These reports truely show the intelligence, skill, and insight Ellis possessed. No wonder he was so famous! As for Allen's post concerning Condon's number on the closet board. Allen is wrong, as are many of his assertions concerning this case. Condon's phone number was SEdgwick 3-7154 which was listed in the Bronx Telephone Directory at the time of the kidnapping and BEFORE Condon obtained a private listing. I have source documentation to prove it and Condon himself admits this in his own book. Hauptmann had a habit of writing things on the wall. So when the police showed him the writing, Hauptmann said it "may be his". Why would Hauptmann write that number there when he didn't have a phone in his apartment and it was easily looked up in any directory where there actually WAS a phone? As far as who wrote it. Through tireless hours of research, I have found the author and can prove it wasn't Hauptmann. Thank you Bill for bringing up the beating Hauptmann suffered at the hands (and feet) of the police. They even used Hauptmann's own hammer by smashing him on the head and back several times with it. They tried sleep deprivation, refused to give him food, and water. Still even with that torture...no confession. Its ironic isn't it? The authorities had no problem going after those who were falsely accused of the bogus "kidnapping" and "beating" of Wendel...What's even worse is they knew it. For anyone interested in a Discussion Board where Ellis Parker is frequently mentioned, please try the link below. http://forum.onecenter.com/yz12/ Editor's Note: I have been to this site and it is an excellent forum for those who would like to discuss the case. |
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October 4, 2002 |
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kat |
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give that baby back |
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