The Prepper Broadcasting Network - CAS236-The Lindberg Kidnapping with Lise Pearlman - Church and State

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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Lastly, if you want to get a hold of us, Church and State 1776 at Proton.me, with that, let's go ahead and start this episode. Now I'm thrilled to bring to you. Lisa Pearlman. She's an acclaimed nonfiction author, filmmaker, former trial lawyer, and judge, and nationally recognized speaker on famous trials of the 20th century. She's written a slew of different books that I look forward to reading myself. And we're going to be talking about some fascinating American history. So Lisa, thank you so much for joining us on Church and State. Thank you for inviting me. Absolutely. A real pleasure. You have, through your career,

you've really covered a lot of very interesting topics. Perhaps history that's unknown to a number of individuals. Can you just tease the audience with a little bit of the subjects that you've covered and reported on? Well, one of them is how Hawaii became a state, which was galvanized by a cup two trials in the 1930s that were, the reason for the trial was alleged, rape by five Pacific Islanders of the wife of a Navy lieutenant. But it turned out to have been false charges, and a lot of the information was kept hidden for about 20 years. So it became the revolution of 1954 when it went public.

And it changed the political situation in the territory and galvanized the statehood. Absolutely. And this is something that, from... too few Americans know the truth about this. And we had this, you know, sort of Monroe Doctrine that we were living by. And honestly, we're currently seeing it now. I mean, the audience knows this. When we went into Venezuela and kidnapped the elected president, I came out in opposition to that. We should not be doing things like that as Americans. We should be mindful of our own country and not trying to press our weight or the fact that we're the biggest bully

ended taking and kidnapping somebody like that. So yes, this continues to be an issue for America. And there are other stories that people know something about, like the Scotsboro Boys, which was a trial in the 30s that ultimately led to a Supreme Court decision that said, you know, if you're faced with capital punishment, you're entitled to a lawyer, even if you have no money, the state will have to pay for it.

But what people don't know about it was that there was a white sheriff who risked his life for the Scotsboro Boy. just before trial and within a year of the trial he was murdered and it and that has recently been attributed to the KKK it was rumored but it may well have been revenge so that's a different part of that story for someone who spoke up for their due process that they're entitled to a trial so there are different parts of these different stories and one of them of course is the Lindbergh case which

I wrote a whole book about separate from with justice for some. And there was just an awful lot of information that didn't go public at the time of the 1932 trial. Back then, it wasn't required by the Supreme Court that the prosecutor reveal exculpatory evidence. And this was the biggest investigation in U.S. history, so they had over 90,000 pages of investigatory material that was kept hidden, which included contrary statements by some of the people who testified for the state at trial and other evidence that are now in archives and now public because of a

governor in New Jersey in 1981 who responded to the widows of Houtman's widow he was executed for this crime but his widow kept pursuing justice and she got the governor to force the state police to reveal all the documents from the investigative file So that was one of the main sources for my book, but there were a lot of other archives also that have some amazing revelations. You know, this is a case that has fascinated the American public for a long time. This is a man who was a celebrity. You know, obviously crisscrossing the world in an airplane, a very brave man, and his child is kidnapped. And a lot of people know that, well, kidnapped and murdered. A lot of people know that part of the story, but you really dove deep into this.

I'd love to explore this topic a little bit more with you. Can you walk the audience through it? Well, the child was the firstborn son of Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, who were considered at the time American royalty. They were in the news all the time. Newsreels at the movies covered him since May of 1927 when he flew nonstop. from New York to Paris, showing how linked we were to the rest of the world. It prompted the powers that be in Washington

to use him as essentially the poster boy for getting airports built, for spending a lot of money on creating an Army Air Force. It wasn't a separate Air Force at the time, but augmenting that because they could envision a time when bombs might be dropped from planes. So it really changed the culture, in Washington about there wasn't even a pentagon at that time and so that also meant that he was

featured in 80 parades across the country of a quarter of america saw him on parade so he was this huge star and then when his first born son was reported kidnapped on march 1 1932 it was worldwide news and it was at a time during the depression when there were kidnappings of middle class and wealthy people's children almost every day so it was something that could happen that nobody could believe did happen to him but from the beginning the the police did not do a very good job of investigating they allowed Lindberg himself to be in charge of the investigation even though he was one of five people on the premises when the child disappeared and evidence started disappearing So that was one aspect of it and then it spent they spent a ton of money

They had police looking all over the country and some and some places across overseas For this child and then 10 weeks after he disappeared they found the body within five miles of home And that it was still a mystery what happened and then two and a half years later after resting and letting go on a number of other people They arrested Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was an immigrant from Germany, who had come as a stowaway 10 years earlier. It was a carpenter, and he lived in the Bronx. And he had spent a $10 bill for gasoline for his car in a Bronx neighborhood that was a gold certificate. and all of the money that had been used for a ransom that turned out not to produce the child. Lindberg had paid this ransom through a go-between in April of 32,

a month before, more than a month before the child's body was found. And so all of the serial numbers were recorded. So the bank realized it was on the list from the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. the police were able to trace that the the dollar the ten dollar bill that was spent because the attendant had written down the license plate number and they found him at his home and found hidden in his garage about $14,000 also from the ransom he had an explanation they didn't believe that this was money left with him by a friend for safekeeping that he didn't even know was money. He said it was left to him in a shoebox

and he kept it on a shelf in his kitchen. And then his friend died and months later, he remembered the shoebox. He opened it up and it had this money in it. Well, in any event, that was called, his friend was Isidore Fish. It was called his Fish Story. Can I pause you here real quick? Because there's just so many interesting facts that you're dropping on the audience. Number one, I wanted to ask, was he acting in a suspicious behavior? Why did the gas station attendant feel that he needed to write down his license plate number? Good question. It was September of 1934, and the reason that's important is because a year and a half earlier on May 1 of 1933, FDR had outlawed gold certificates in large quantity. You were not allowed to keep a large number of them.

if you had one or two that wasn't such a big deal and so the word had gotten out to to merchants local merchants from the police that they should be recording at gold certificates because their use was was now a misdemeanor if you had a large quantity of them and they were also still looking for most of the money some of the money had returned from the ransom had gotten back in circulation and they hadn't figured out who did that but that was how he was traced and the reason it was recorded was because it was now illegal. Well, there we go. That answers a lot. Go figure that it was about making gold illegal in this country. It was gold certificates. Gold certificates, yes, thank you. A $1 bill that looks just like any other $10 bill, but it's got gold on it, and it means it was backed, you know, by gold held by the government. Yes, yes. And they went off the gold standard, which is why they made it illegal. Absolutely. Okay. Sorry to interrupt, but keep going. him with the story, it's already very fascinating.

He has this shoebox. His friend did give it to him. His friend dies, and he finally ended up looking at it. And I'm assuming, like most people, you got a shoebox full of cash during the Depression, you might start looking at that to use.

Well, he did, and he hit it in his garage because he knew it was illegal to have such a stash. He didn't even tell his wife, and he used a little bit of it. He spent $20 for his shoes for his wife and $10 at the station, but there's no evidence that he actually spent any of it until August of 34. At the trial, they tried to suggest that.

They had a witness who said, I think I can identify him as a man who spent $5 with a, that was part of the ransom, a year and a half earlier at a crowded theater. And it was contrary to the statement she'd given to the police at the time that Houtman spoke with a very heavy German accent. The man she said she's interacted with spoke English as an American. So and it was that much earlier. But what was happening before the Houtman's trial, he was immediately sent from New York where he was accused of being the person who had accepted the ransom money. Okay. So he was that was a crime that that they were pursuing but that got cut short because he got transferred to New Jersey to face murder charges for the death of the child on March 1.

And that's, so he faced a death penalty for the murder of the child when they actually had only arrested him for the ransom aspect of it. So they had to find other evidence to implicate him in the child's actual murder. And what I researched is that much of that was manufactured. Sure, and I want to get into that. Do you believe that part of this was, you know, a German that speaks, you know, with a German accent, it's, you know, post-World War I. We're kind of gearing up towards maybe involvement in World War II here, you know, with the rise of Hitler. Is this like the perfect boogeyman? Is this why they singled out this guy?

That was part of it, for sure. And he was actually a soldier in World War I. And his brothers died in World War I fighting for the Germans. So that made him an easy target. And the day that he was arrested, and again, he was arrested for possession of some of the ransom money. There was still a lot of ransom money unaccounted for. It was $50,000 had been paid. He had $14,000.

And some had already been returned. In fact, there was someone who, on the last day, it was legal to use those gold certificates, It's turned in about $3,000 to a bank that was part of the Lindbergh kidnap money. He was never caught, but he had signed a deposit slip, and when Hauptmann went to trial, the handwriting experts for the state said, they're not the same person.

That was somebody else. That person was never caught. So there are all kinds of questions about who else, if he was involved, or whether he was actually the right person. But I'm sorry, what was your last question? Well, I mean, you've answered that as far as the German being the perfect boogeyman in this situation. Did you want to add anything more to that? Well, yes.

He lived in the Bronx, which is where they were focused on thinking that that's where the perpetrator lived. And they wound up with an expert, a wood expert, who a federal government, employee from Wisconsin who went to the apartment where Houtman lived and the day that Houtman was arrested he was removed from the apartment as was his wife and his two-year-old so they never were in there again but the police rented it took it over and the there was a hall closet linen closet that you could climb up into the attic it was a small attic and in the attic the they saw that there was a pine floor. A week after

Houtman's arrest, according to one of the officers, the one who was in charge, Lieutenant Borman, he saw for the first time that nobody else has seen a gap in the floor that indicated part of one of the floor boards had been removed. And he thought this was a huge clue, and so he took that and showed that to their expert he brought the expert in to look at the attic and the expert would later testify at trial that the remaining portion of that floor board matched one of the rails of the kidnap ladder because the child was supposedly kidnapped out of a second-story window from the Lindbergh home in March of 32 and that had been

found in the yard and so they had this ladder one of the big issues that should have been a reason for the trial not to the for the trial to be a mistrial was that the police had asked a different expert someone who was able to reveal latent fingerprints back in 1932 a week after the child disappeared to see if he could find fingerprints on the ladder and he he did and they had up the police themselves had been unable to do so their expert had seen nothing on the ladder but when he put silver nitrate on it which was a process then used in Europe

but not in the US hundreds of prints popped up on the outside of the ladder and they determined that the police had mishandled that the police had they were police fingerprints they were reporters fingerprints it was it you couldn't tell whose they were however the this expert was a doctor who's a doctor did this as an avocation and he really thought he would be very helpful if he took the ladder apart, made a model, and checked the inside. And he checked the inside, and he found one print on an inside corner of a brung against the ladder reel that he figured had to have been made by the builder of the ladder. Nobody else had touched that. And he told the police that.

So fast forward two and a half years when he's no longer working on the case, when Hauptman's arrested, Dr. Hudson, Rassum Hudson, calls the police and said, have you checked his fingerprints against the one I found on the inside of the ladder? And he was told they don't match. And he said, you have arrested the wrong man. And what happened after that is that the police erased all fingerprints off the ladder before Truman. them. And they admitted doing that. They said they did it to put it back in its original condition, which wasn't true, because originally when they found it, it had a print on an inside doing. He was so angry at what the police did that he went up testifying for the defense, not on that issue because there was nothing to point to it on that, but on a related issue.

Okay. So continuing on with the case, and it seems to me that a lot of this was, A lot of the evidence was manufactured or flat out removed that could have proved this man innocent. Let's continue to walk through this. Let's walk through the trial and talk a little bit more about how they really engineered this boogieman and then threw the book at him. Right. Well, they came up with three people who said they were eyewitnesses to seeing Houtman in the area of Hopewell, which is the town where Lindbergs had their farmhouse. And within a week before they kidnapped, nobody could testify that they saw him on the estate or on the night that the child disappeared.

But these three men did. Well, it turned out, years later, when the evidence was revealed, the police had interrogated all of them before trial, and they had given opposite stories. So none of that cross-examination happened because the defense didn't have access to it. I've created a reenactment of this trial using original testimony from both sides, the key testimony for the defense and key testimony for the state. And then I created an invented character, and the invented character is a modern lawyer with access to all of the discovery that came out later. And so he could cross-examine these witnesses about the discrepancies. They don't answer in my, I made it into a two-and-a-half-hour play. they don't answer because they never did, but the audience gets to hear that.

And then the audience at the end gets to vote on whether the case ought to be reopened. And I've done it for times now, and every audience overwhelmingly votes to reopen the case. You know, I so appreciate that using, you know, an avenue of theater to prove that there is at least some doubt that the case should be reexamined. Because, you know, as this widow of this man, she wanted to pursue justice. She wanted to clear her husband's name because she didn't believe that he'd had anything to do with this. And while the state... I'm sorry, she was with him that night. He picked her up from work.

So she was at first-hand knowledge that he wasn't there. He was in the Bronx picking her up as a waitress at 8 p.m. from where she worked. Okay. Well, there we go right there. There's more evidence to throw into this. But, yeah, while the state unfortunately killed this man, murdered this man, we still could write a wrong here and at least clearing his name. Well, there's an effort right now, ongoing effort, a case on appeal, to re-examine some of the evidence

because DNA testing could actually shed light on this. There are two different kinds of DNA testing that are available. One is wood DNA testing. The police made the Helpman trial, the star exhibit of their New Jersey State Police Museum. It has the wood evidence still on display, which is a piece of floorboard that was brought into court that supposedly matched one rail of the ladder and the ladder itself. So that could be done. In the last 15 years or so, that's been the way in which experts tell whether something is from the same. So a piece of wood is from the same source or not.

But the New Jersey police have not done that, and they have resisted. doing that but what the case on appeal is focused on is the um ransom demand letters which are in envelopes that they kept um and have stamps and of course back then um envelopes were licked and stamps so human DNA could be theoretically removed from that that is probably still possible but they're also fighting that and i would assume with uh you said that he was a young son so i'm assuming I mean, there's still some people that generationally, they're related to the supposed killer that they could test off of. Right. His great-grandniece has volunteered, and there's a DNA sample and his grandniece as well.

His son, I understand, died a couple of years ago. He was in his early 90s, I believe, by then, and he only had one child. And he had no children. So this is his sister's family. Okay. But I mean, still, there should be enough to link to be able to say, yes. And they have a letter that Houtman wrote that in possession of the New Jersey State Police, which he licked the envelope of. They may have other evidence from which they could do it, but they're resisting that for now.

Well, I mean, they probably don't want to admit that they got the whole thing wrong. A lot of cover-up culture going on these days. Is there anything else within this case that would give an individual looking into it, pause to say, hey, what about this evidence? Or what are the lack of evidence here? Absolutely. One of the things, what my book focused on was Lindberg. Lindberg himself should have been a suspect.

In fact, when you have a child who is abnormal, and this child was diagnosed as abnormal, he had an oversawful, He had an oversized head. He may have been hydrocephalic. That's not clear. But he had a rickety condition. This is all diagnosed by his own pediatrician. And other overlapping toes, there were other issues about this child.

And when you have a child who's abnormal, the Scotland Yard has always looked to the parents as a possible suspect. And they told that to the New Jersey State Police Representative who came there and they didn't do that Instead they put Lindberg in charge of the investigation right near the beginning and what happened Well, one of things that they noticed right away the police noticed was that the nursery where the child had supposedly been kidnapped from Had no fingerprints in it whatsoever that they could find that night and what did that mean? That was weird. Why? Because Lindberg's wife the nanny and the cook had come in at 10 o'clock when the nanny was checking on him to get him up again let him go to the on his potty and put him then

put him back he's 20 months old he wasn't really a baby is more like a toddler but in any event when she found he wasn't there then that raised the alarm in the house the first thing that Ann had Lindberg's wife and the nanny thought was that Lindberg had done it as a practical joke why because he'd done it before he'd hidden his son in a closet once before as a joke making people think the child had been kidnapped and he insisted he hadn't done anything but then he shoot everybody out of the room and he told them let's keep the door closed we're calling the police want to preserve the evidence well when the police arrived they

brought in their fingerprint man and at midnight he's checking the room there are no prints whatsoever well the women had gone in there and searched high and low and touched the windowsill touched the crib touched you know a lot of surfaces, their prints weren't even there. So he assumed that somebody in the house had removed all prints after the child disappeared. And there's only one person in that five-person household who was upstairs alone after the child disappeared and before the police arrived. And that was Lindbergh.

They never pursued that. There were other issues about his behavior. One of them is a very key one, which I mentioned at the beginning of my book. There was a teenage neighbor who was coming home from high school, driving his family car on the night of March 1 at about 6 o'clock. And it was just dusk. And as he passed the Lindbergh's driveway, they had a long driveway up to their house, he was passed by another vehicle that had a lone driver wearing a fedora that obscured. Lisa, I got to pause you real quick. we hit that hard break and actually this is a perfect teaser for the audience and we're leaving you right

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With that, let's go back to our guest, Lisa Pearlman. We're talking about just a case that does not seem to die. People continue to have interest in this years and years after it has occurred. Now, Lisa, you were talking about a neighbor that had seen another car with a low fedora over their eyes. Please continue. Well, the neighbor, Sebastian Lipica, was very observant. He loved cars. And this other car, he said, was a 1929 dodge.

And the driver, you couldn't see his face. He said he was slim. And he had next to him on the passenger seat a ladder, a folded ladder. And the next day, the police took Lopeca to, after Lopika, to went after the Pika learned up the kidnapping, which didn't happen until hours later than this. This is a 6 p.m. The kidnapping

happened sometime between 8 and 10. And so the next morning, Lupeka heard about it. He went to the police to tell him what he had seen, and they thought this was a huge clue. They showed him the latter they'd found in the yard. He said, yes, that looks exactly like pretty much

what I saw. And so they took him, the next day please took him looking for 1929 dodges that were local because he said it had local plates just like his car did that was either black or dark blue he couldn't quite tell in the dusk and he remembered that it had wooden spokes on the wheels and he remembered that it had a spare tire on the rear and he remembered what the what what what the grill looked like so he had very specific knowledge and then he started looking and they took him halfway through a list

of local owners of such a car there weren't a huge number of people who owned cars in that rural area at that time and halfway through they quit well that coincided pretty much with when Lindberg got in charge and so they never resumed it looking for this key suspect and he actually later on was interviewed by the FBI Sebastian Lopeca and told them a lot of these same details and he wound up testifying for the defense that Houtman's trial that it wasn't helpman that he saw and He said it it to some extent he thought he might resemble him of course the first time Lupika saw how it was after he lost a lot of weight after he'd been arrested Houtman was a stocky guy when he was arrested he wasn't he was very thin when he when he when he when he when he when he

was at trial but but then he was sure it wasn't him this wasn't the that wasn't who we saw what happened many years later is that there were a lawyer and a police chief who wanted to investigate the case in the late 1980s and early 90s and they wound up interviewing Lupega in his old age and what they all agreed upon together was that the man he saw was actually that that's and part of the reason they thought that is because when when Lopeca was interviewed by the police on the next day the police brought Lindberg over and said hey he's got this information about the somebody some

stranger with a ladder just a couple hours before the kidnapping and Lindberg said I have to go see my wife or something to that effect and disappeared so his attitude his reaction was weird And then thereafter, there was no follow-up on the rest of the list. Now, did Limburg have a 1929 Dodge? No, he did not. And I think it was a borrowed car. Okay.

It wasn't his car, for sure. But they never found out whose car it was. I think it was a car taken from, probably from an employee at Rockefeller Institute lab, where Lindberg worked part-time as a volunteer, or actually almost full-time as a volunteer. here. But that was never pursued. So you can't know exactly whose it was, but it wasn't Houtman's car. Houtman's car was a different year. It was a Dodge, a different year, but it also was a cheaper model and had wire rims and wire spokes in the tires, and it has something

very special. And what it had was that Houtman was an accomplished carpenter, and he wanted to go visit his sister in California in 1931 so what he had done is he built a handmade box to use as an additional trunk and he appended it permanently to the back of his car and his spare tire was on the driver's side it wasn't in the back and that had three drawers in it and you could open it up to make a platform for dining on and they put camping gear in there and he and this friend and his wife drove across country in 31 with that. The police removed that box, that trunk

before trial and only showed the jury and witnesses pictures of the car where you couldn't see the back and you couldn't see the driver's side where there was a spare tire. One of the men who they brought forward saying, I recognize him as somebody I saw, had

earlier said, no, the man he saw was actually much smaller about 5'7 instead of 5'9 or 10, but also resembled more like is it or fish than than helpman but he also said there was a spare tire on the back of the car that he saw and he wasn't sure if it might have been a Buick so there are things that didn't come out in the trial which undermined what they said but and Sebastian Lopeca was a very incredible teenager with the details

that they didn't follow up on sure okay let me ask you this you know obviously people are going to be wondering who do you think did it, all right, is going to be the big question here. But before I get to that, who was the individual who had the shoebox full of money who later on died? Oh, that was Isidore Fish. Okay. And so what's the connection there? Well, Isidore Fish was unknown to the police as a fraudster. He was passing bad money on other occasions. He was defrauding people with different schemes. He was a friend of Haughtman's and the two of them during the Depression were in business together selling seal furs.

I'm not sure that it was on the black market. And so that was their connection. And they were German speaking and in a German neighborhood and they were friends. Isidore Fish was one of his friends. But Isidore Fish is also implicated in other ways. There were three or four people who were interviewed who recognized his picture. as having been around Hopewell. In fact, one of the people who identified him was very strange.

This was Henry Breckenridge. Henry Breckenridge was Lindberg's lawyer. He said, I recognized that picture. I think that's the same guy who came to visit me in my office in Manhattan on March 8 a week after the child disappeared and seemed to be connected to the kidnapped gang. And at the time, that was what the police assumed, is that it was a gang and I met with him for more than an hour I think several hours

and I got the impression he was he was very sinister and I got the impression the child might already be dead he doesn't tell any of this to the police until September of 1934 so he waits that this could have been a huge clue whatever they were they're researching this and investigating it thoroughly and he says nothing until after Houtman's arrest and then he goes to the police and gives this statement which the police never made public until much later. So that that document is something that the New Jersey State Police also have in their archives, but it was I think that was the Bronx police who took that statement. In any event, so he's

implicating fish at the trial the state took the position that everything that Houtman was saying about fish was untrue, that he was an innocent bystander or whatever, and they had information they were also covering up. So as we've progressed to the show, we now have two candidates as potentially suspects, the father, which, by the way, can I just add, hiding your baby to make your wife think that the child has been kidnapped as a joke, that's pretty strange. That's pretty strange behavior. he did that a lot of strange practical he jokes over the years and I mentioned those in the book too

because he had a very weird sense of humor if you call it that he almost killed one of his friends when they were pilots years earlier they were before he became famous and he was mad at his roommate for always making him fill the pitcher of water that they kept in their boarding house room that they drank from. So he filled it with kerosene instead of water. And the guy took two big gulbs and was hospitalized for a week. He forgave him. But my God. That's a pretty sick joke to be playing on somebody like that. I could certainly have killed him there. All right. So we have two people that the police most certainly should have looked at. Is there anyone else in this mix that the police were looking at or perhaps should have looked at?

Definitely there are others. Isidore Fish was not the kidnapper that night. He wasn't placed there that evening. And that I think he was involved as I think he was hired to be involved. But I think that the kidnapping was actually not real. It was a hoax. I think it was orchestrated by Lindberg and his lawyer. And what happened to the child is really shocking.

It wasn't either one of them who killed him. I think he was brought secretly to be experimented upon. And we have a modern, I have a modern pathologist who's worked with me on my book, and I have his declaration attached to my book. and he's also he was a witness at my two and a half hour program and he's he's otherwise gone public with what he's found the child when when found was missing um most of its internal organs it was also missing um one arm from the elbow down and the other hand and the left leg below the knee um that was attributed to um wild animal attack or that the body deteriorated in the two months plus since the child was killed.

He said no from what he's looked at, which is the medical reports at the morgue when the child was brought in, which were incomplete. There was no complete autopsy. There was a so-called looksy on the night of May 12, 1932, and then they intended to do more. and before that could happen Lindbergh had the body cremated so that so they weren't able to complete it but what they did do with what they recorded included

the fact that the kidneys were missing and dr. Peter Spath who is the pathologist that a New Jersey pathologist that I consulted who's been in 2000 death investigations said the kidneys should have still been there and And they were protected by ribs. And when the body was found, it was also, even though it was mostly skeletonized, it was missing, it was wearing two t-shirts. And they were the t-shirts that the nanny said, yeah, that's the ones I put on him the night that he disappeared, so she could recognize them.

But the t-shirts were essentially intact. They're afraid a little bit, but they were intact. Well, they're over the rib cage. The kidneys are missing inside of the. rib cage. Dr. Spath said the only way that happened is by operation as far as he could tell. That's the only logical conclusion that he could reach. So the child was experimented on, and this is a period of time where eugenics had gained in popularity. Obviously, you know, this celebrated celebrity, as you pointed out, was in magazines, was in

parades, did not, it appears anyway, did not love the fact that he had a disabled child. And so perhaps he was kidnapped to be experimented on for what purposes. I mean, I'll leave that to you. You're the expert? Well, the reason that Lindberg was a eugenicist, and he was lauded by them. He won an award by them because of his superior genes, his Nordic genes, is what enabled him to do his fantastic flight. And the doctor he was volunteering for at Rockefeller Institute was one of the leading lights in the eugenics movement internationally. He co-founded the first international

Yougenics conference in London and then was prominent in the one they did in the 1920s in the US. So he was that's what that was his focus as well Lindbergh went to him originally because he was he was concerned about his sister-in-law a whole who had a defective heart valve. And he was told that this doctor was doing experiments, which might lead to bypass operations, which were not done at that point. And so that's why he went to him. Our research, including my daughter, Jamie Benvenuti,

is an amazing researcher on the net, but one of the things she found was that Dr. Carell, Alexi Corell, had won the Nobel Prize back in 19, for his vascular surgery and and was predicting that someday they that they could do bypass surgery on humans he'd already done it on dogs And the way he did it was to take a carotid artery from a different subject a segment and and put it by the heart of a patient so that the blood would circulate while the operation occurred and so that was what I think that Lindbergh went to him to see if it could happen and his son was a blood relative of his wife's sister the operation as far as I can tell never happened but she did consult with the

Rockefeller Institute for heart issues she had a cardiologist there that well became her doctor she died in 1934 because she did have a very weak heart so in any event I think that's why he went to him there's plenty of evidence in my book I asked people to judge for themselves based on all the evidence of the way the Houtman trial went which was an abomination really it was they proceeded so fast to trial and they had some doctored evidence some evidence missing that should have been there and they had witnesses who could have been cross-examined and impeached based on statements that the defense never knew about

Well, I got to tell you, I so appreciate your work on this subject because this is a conspiracy theory, right? You know, people know, it was investigated. That's over. Just let it go. No, this is an individual who, from listening to you, I believe he was innocent. And so we should clear his good name. And there's so many cases throughout American history. I just had an author on talking about the JFK assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald, who I don't believe is. the trigger man there. And so we should clear his name. And so these are important conversations to have. And I cannot wait to get my hands on your book. This is going to be absolutely thrilling to read through. I'm going to plug the website. We've actually gone a little bit over, but I just, I couldn't stop. It was that good of an interview. So, Chris, if you can bring up the website, Lisaperlman.com, and by the way, audience, Lisa is L-I-S-E. But Lisaperlman.com. You can see all the different books that she has written and get your hands on some of these because they look

phenomenal. Lisa, anything else that you'd like to say? Well, I hope people follow what's happening now because in the Lindberg case, it may wind up getting reopened. It needs to. Amen to that. I will definitely echo that that we definitely need to review this. And if we can, you know, find the real culprit. But at the very least, clear a amazing. name. Lisa, it's been an absolute pleasure having you on the show. I'm going to go ahead and close this out. If you hold on one more minute post-production to say our goodbyes, I'd appreciate it. But again, thank you for joining us and thank you for all your work. Well, thank you very much for having me on. Absolutely. All right, audience, there you go. A fantastic story that we just cannot

let die. History is so meaningful. And you know I've got my degree in it, so I love it. I'm a little bit of a nerd there. But this is a book that I want you to read. I know I'm going to. So please go check it out. Lisaperma.com. Church of State is brought to you in part by Colonial Life's Bookend Independent Agents, finders insurance, and mark 37.com. I'm Caleb Collier.

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