THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING SUSPECT NO. 1. Lise Pearlman

3. Hunting Worldwide for the Curly-Haired Baby

       4. Confusion Reigns

       5. Mystery Trips

       6. Conflicting Sworn Statements

       7. Hunches Backfire and Leads Go Nowhere

       8. Wild Goose Chases

       9. A Nation in Mourning

       10. At the Morgue

       11. Ashes and Smoke

       12. Bizarre Developments

       ACT THREE

       1. Stymied

       2. An Elusive Suspect

       3. The Most Hated Man in America

       4. Framing an Ironclad Case

       5. Slew Footing Dr. Mitchell

       6. “Death House” Reilly

       7. Show Time

       8. Picking the Jury

       9. Aiming for the Chair

       10. More Damning Testimony

       11. The Defense

       12. Condemned Without Mercy

       13. Raising Doubts

       14. Old Smokey

       ACT FOUR

       1. Kindred Spirits

       2. “The High Priest of Biology”

       3. A New Mission

       4. A Breakthrough at the Lab

       5. The Landmark Experiment

       6. Hitler Embraces Carrel’s “Ideal” Solution

       7. The Culture of Organs

       8. The Highfields Center for the Science of Man

       9. From Hero to Villain

       10. Carrel’s Fall from Grace

       11. Lindbergh Secretly Achieves his Goal

       ACT FIVE

       1. Assembling the Puzzle Pieces

       2. The Squibb Lab Report

       3. Breckinridge, Fisch and Cemetery John

       4. Reconstructing the Crime

       5. Maggots and Chemicals Tell a Tale

       6. What Lindbergh Valued Most in Life

       7. Accidental Admissions?

       8. Conclusion

       Epilogue

       Appendix A: Affidavit of Dr. William M. Bass

       Appendix B: The Squibb Report

       Appendix C: Declaration of Dr. Peter Speth

       Endnotes

       Sources

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann (1898–1994) who, in utter disbelief at the American justice system, lived through the prolonged nightmare of her husband’s sensationalized arrest in September 1934 as the most hated man in America, his murder trial four months later, and execution in April 1936. She spent the rest of her long life fighting to prove the truth of his alibi: that Bruno Richard Hauptmann could not have committed the kidnap/murder of the only son of America’s hero on the evening of March 1, 1932, in central