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Cemetery John: The Undiscovered Mastermind Behind The Lindbergh Kidnapping (2012)

by Robert Zorn(Favorite Author)

3.75 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1590208560 (ISBN13: 9781590208564)

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

Overlook Hardcover

review 1: Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and excited for the 1932 kidnapping and death of the first-born son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne. In 1963 the author's father started to believe that he knew the name of the group's leader and with his son started investigating in John Knoll years later using modern day police techniques. This is the story of the kidnapping and process of both investigations. The author puts together a fairly decent case against Knoll.
review 2: I found Cemetery John fascinating, but then I have an interest in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. The possibilities theorized by the author's father are intriguing. There is no doubt that convicted kidnapper and murderer Bruno Richard Hauptmann had accomplices. From the adolescent pe... morersonal experiences Mr. Gene Zorn eventually discloses, leading his son, Robert Zorn, to research and investigate, I would have to agree: John Knoll was indeed also one of the conspiritors, perhaps the plot's architect. Robert Zorn's research is compelling. The clencher being the abnormal growth at the base of John Knoll's left hand thumb seen by Dr. Condon when he negotiates for an hour with Cemetery John.I appreciated the authors skill for weaving historical documentation with supposition and theory through out the book. It is the theory of Dr. Craig Neumann, researcher of psychopathic personality, to which I take exception. I can not agree that John Knoll befriended and groomed Gene Zorn for the purpose of documenting Knoll's crime. Knoll may indeed have had a criminal purpose for a young teen, but it was not as an archivist. Thank you Robert Zorn for sharing your father's story and for opening another window into the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. less

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