THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING SUSPECT NO. 1. Lise Pearlman

at a Bronx bakery when the crime occurred, as he always did then on Tuesday nights.

      Despite all obstacles, nevertheless she persisted — and convinced a growing number of people, including both crime reporter Anthony Scaduto and investigative journalist Ludovic Kennedy, of the righteousness of her cause. Without Anna Hauptmann’s dogged determination, the government documents her lawyers uncovered through the Freedom of Information Act, the expert assistance they obtained, and the interviews of aged participants and sleuthing by Scaduto and Kennedy, much of the information relied on in this book would have been lost to history. Hats off as well to New Jersey Governor Harold Hoffman, whose thwarted efforts to reinvestigate “the crime of the century” likely cost him his reelection but provided historians with a gold mine of clues.

      Cast of Characters

       LINDBERGH FAMILY

      Paternal grandparents August and Louisa Lindbergh (names taken by Ola Mansson and his mistress Lovisa Jansdotter Carlen after leaving Sweden for America in 1859. They later married.)

      Charles August (“C.A.”) Lindbergh, father of the aviator, born in Sweden. His birth name in Sweden was Karl August Mansson, the first of seven children of Ola Mansson and Lovisa Jansdotter

      Evangeline Lodge Land Lindbergh, second wife of C.A., mother of the aviator and daughter of Detroit, Michigan, dentist/inventor Dr. Charles Land and Evangeline Land

      Eva Lindbergh Spaeth, daughter of C.A. Lindbergh and his first wife. Her older sister, Lillian, died in 1916

      Charles Augustus Lindbergh, pioneering aviator and victim’s father

      Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author, wife, navigator and co-pilot of the aviator, and victim’s mother

      Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., firstborn of Anne and Charles. Delivered at Englewood estate of Morrow family on June 22, 1930. The couple had five more children from 1932 to 1945:Jon, Land, Anne, Scott, and Reeve.

      Lindbergh household staff in New Jersey:

      Betty Gow, nanny, who lived mostly at the estate of Anne’s parents in Englewood, where the Lindberghs spent weekdays

      Olly Whateley, chauffeur, butler and caretaker of the new Lindbergh farmhouse outside Hopewell, New Jersey

      Elsie Whateley, Olly’s wife and the Lindbergh’s cook and housekeeper at the farmhouse

      Family dogs: Wahgoosh, a white and black wire-haired terrier that lived with the Whateleys at the New Jersey farmhouse; Skean, a Scottish terrier that lived at the Morrow estate in Englewood and generally accompanied the family on weekends at their farmhouse

       ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH FAMILY

      Ambassador and Senator Dwight Morrow, Anne’s father

      Elizabeth Cutter Morrow, Anne’s mother

      Elisabeth Reeve (Morrow) Morgan, Anne’s older sister

      Dwight Morrow, Jr., Anne’s brother

      Constance (Morrow) Morgan, Anne’s younger sister

      Morrow household staff of 29 included:

      Septimus Banks, butler

      Violet Sharp, parlor maid

       BRECKINRIDGE FAMILY

      Henry Breckinridge, close friend and legal/business advisor to Charles Lindbergh

      Aida De Acosta Breckinridge, Henry’s second wife

      Oren Root, Aida’s son by her first marriage

      Alva Root, Aida’s daughter by her first marriage

       NEW JERSEY STATE OFFICIALS

       Gov. Harry Moore (1926–1929, 1932–1935 and 1938–1941)

       Gov. Harold Hoffman (1935–1938)

      Leon Hoage, investigator employed by Gov. Hoffman

       NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE

      Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Superintendent of the Agency

       Lieutenant Lewis J. Bornmann

       Captain John Lamb

       Lieutenant Arthur Keaten

      Trooper Frank Kelly, fingerprint expert

       Trooper Joe Wolf

       Sergeant Andrew Zapolsky

      Jersey City detectives Harry Walsh and James Fitzgerald, assigned to assist the New Jersey State Police

       KEY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FIGURES

      Hopewell Police Chief Harry Wolfe and Constable Charles Williamson

       Detective Ellis Parker

      Oscar Bush, tracker

       FEDERAL OFFICIALS

      J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI)

      Elmer Irey, Internal Revenue Service executive who assisted in the Lindbergh ransom payment

      Assistant Secretary of Labor Murray Garsson, who conducted his own investigation into the Lindbergh baby kidnapping

       POLITICAL BOSSES AND MOB FIGURES

       Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague

      Owney Madden, a leading figure in New York’s underworld

       GO-BETWEENS TO THE KIDNAP GANG

       Mickey Rosner, Salvatore Spitale and racketeer Irving Bitz

      John Hughes Curtis, Virginia shipping company owner

      William “Wild Bill” Donovan, World War I hero and lawyer friend of Henry Breckinridge

      John F. “Jafsie” Condon, retired Bronx school principal

       OTHER POTENTIAL SUSPECTS

      Isidor Fisch, fraudster and business partner of Hauptmann

      Jacob Nosovitsky, spy and former federal agent

      Arthur Hitner, con man with multiple aliases

      Gaston Means, former federal agent

       HAUPTMANN FAMILY

      Bruno Richard Hauptmann, prosecuted as the lone kidnap/murderer

      Anna Hauptmann and their son

       Manfred “Bubi” Hauptmann

       KEY MURDER TRIAL PARTICIPANTS

      Justice Thomas Trenchard on assignment from the New Jersey Supreme Court

      Attorney