Joe Nocera

On the drawers.

And the bed, no fingerprints.

So what kind of evidence was there?

The ransom note, obviously.

Okay, so there was the ransom note.

There were footprints at the base of the window.

Okay.

That's got to be helpful.

It would be if somebody took a mold, but nobody did because the two cops that came were local cops.

By the time the state police showed up,

The grounds had been trampled to death by journalists.

Somebody had leaked the fact that the Lindbergh baby had been kidnapped, and journalists just swarmed all over the place.

Famous first name, too.

Norman Schwarzkopf.

Father of Storm and Norman.

It turns out he worships the ground Charles Lindbergh walks on.

So not only does he not investigate the possibility that the parents could be involved, he lets Lindbergh manage the investigation of his own child.

whether whether it's legit or not what does it say in very broken english it says give us fifty thousand dollars and you'll get your baby back broken english well it was written it was clearly written by somebody who did not speak um for whom english was not their first language so it had misspellings and not just vocabulary problems but um grammar problems but then

Lindbergh then went on to make a series of idiotic decisions.

Well, take me through them, though, in terms of the decisions he made that you might be critical of.