Eighty years after the famous Lindbergh baby kidnapping, an author has suggested a Mt. Clemens man was the never-caught mastermind of the crime -- one of the most sensational in history.
Francis X. Donnelly of the Detroit News reports that a new book "Cemetery John" by author Robert Zorn suggests the late John Knoll of Mt. Clemens was behind it all. A New Yorker named Bruno Hauptmann of N.Y. was convicted and executed in the death of the 20-month-old Lindbergh baby who was found dead about two months after he was kidnapped.
But there was always speculation that others were involved. Knoll died in 1980.
The author had owned a Dallas software firm.
Donnelly reports:
Robert Zorn builds a circumstantial case against John Knoll through old photos, handwriting samples, 250,000 criminal case files and interviews with FBI profilers, forensic psychiatrists and Knoll relatives in Michigan and around the world.
"I'm not an investigator," said Zorn, 55, who owned a Dallas software firm. "I'm just a regular guy whose father saw a conspiracy. It fell to me to tell this story."
