The Kidnap Years: by David Stout (if you give a mouse a cookie read aloud TXT) 📕

The Crime and the Criminal: A Psychiatric Study of the Lindbergh Case. New York: Covici-Friede, 1936.

Touhy, Roger, and Ray Brennan. The Stolen Years. Cleveland, OH: Pennington Press, 1959.

Unger, Robert. The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 2005.

Wood, Larry. Murder & Mayhem in Missouri. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2013.

ARTICLES

Beason, Robert G. “Floyd Takes Sheriff for Buggy Ride,” The Bolivar Herald-Free Press, March 8, 2000.

Cushman, Barry. “Headline Kidnappings and the Origins of the Lindbergh Law.” Saint Louis University Law School Journal, 2011. https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/268.

Farris, David. “Massacre Suspect Bailey Drew FBI Scrutiny,” Edmond Life and Leisure, June 14, 2018. www.edmondlifeandleisure.com.

Jones, Leslie Tara. “Arthur Gooch: The Political, Social, and Economic Influences That Led Him to the Gallows.” MA thesis, University of Central Oklahoma, 2010. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.428.3355&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

Koehler, Arthur. “Techniques Used in Tracing the Lindbergh Kidnapping Ladder.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 27 (Winter 1937): 712–24.

Koehler, Arthur. “Who Made That Ladder?” Saturday Evening Post, April 20, 1935.

Lindell, Lisa. “No Greater Menace: Verne Sankey and the Kidnapping of Charles Boettcher II.” Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications, 2004. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/library_pubs/30/.

McClary, Daryl. “Ten-Year-Old Charles F. Mattson Is Kidnapped in Tacoma and Held for Ransom on December 27, 1936.” HistoryLink.org, December 13, 2006. https://historylink.org/File/8028.

McClary, Daryl. “Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping.” HistoryLink.org, March 27, 2006. https://historylink.org/File/7711.

Nash, Jay Robert. “Who Was Behind the Kansas City Massacre?” http://www.annalsofcrime.com/index.htm#03–05.

O’Neil, Tim. “A Look Back: The New Year’s Eve Kidnapping of a Busch Family Heir in 1930.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 1, 2019. https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/a-look-back-busch-family-heir-kidnapped-on-new-year/article_8ffb7345-9214-5c18-a7f6–51d89c1cc78f.html.

O’Neil, Tim. “A Look Back: A Post-Dispatch Reporter Takes the Hostage Home in One of the Most Bizarre Kidnapping Cases St. Louis Has Ever Seen.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 26, 2019. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-look-back-reporter-got-his-story-first-then-took/article_03ee06ac-b2cd-5f72-9966-386544c54af8.html#1.

Park, Sharon. “Gangster Era in St. Paul, 1900–1936.” MNopedia, Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnopedia.org/gangster-era-st-paul-1900–1936 (accessed July 9, 2019).

Stillwell, Ted W. “Portraits of the Past: The Nelly Don Kidnapping Sensation.” Leavenworth Times, July 31, 2014. https://www.leavenworthtimes.com/article/20140731/NEWS/140739835.

Tuohy, John William. “The World’s Richest Cop/Tubbo Gilbert, the Mob and the Power of the Press.” American Mafia, June 2002. www.americanmafia.com.

INTERVIEWS

Byeff, Dr. Peter. For his personal recollections of Dr. Dudley Shoenfeld, 2018.

Cahill, Robert T. Author of Hauptmann’s Ladder, 2018.

DeJute, David Anthony. For his personal recollection of his uncle, James DeJute Jr., 2018.

Unger, Robert. Author of The Union Station Massacre, 2018.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not exist were it not for my agent, Deborah Hofmann of the David Black Agency. She believed in the idea from the beginning and has been tireless in her support and encouragement. She has been a terrific agent, yet so much more. Her editing and storytelling instincts are superb, and they have made me a better writer. She is my friend as well as my agent.

And I am grateful to Anna Michels of Sourcebooks, my steady navigator from the start. She is that rare editor who sees the big picture and the tiny details that go into shaping a manuscript. Her questions and suggestions have been on the mark every time.

Finally, there is my wife, Rita, without whom my life would not be worth living. She, too, has been encouraging and supportive. As I say in my dedication, she is truly my rock and my light.

ENDNOTES

1“Gang Chief Jailed in Hamm Abduction; Three Aides Held,” New York Times, July 25, 1933.

2“Abduction Arrests Grow/Hamm Kidnapping Charges Add to Long List of Recent Cases,” New York Times, July 25, 1933.

3Touhy, Roger, The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, 1959), 19.

4Cushman, Barry. “Headline Kidnappings and the Origins of the Lindbergh Law.” Saint Louis University Law School Journal, 2011. https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/268.

5“Hunt for Slayers of Lindbergh Baby Centres on Gangsters Who Got Ransom; President Orders Relentless Search,” New York Times, May 14, 1932.

6Ibid., “President Orders Relentless Hunt.”

7“Kidnapping: A Rising Menace to the Nation,” New York Times, May 6, 1932, Section 9.

8“Six States in Drive against Kidnapping,” New York Times, March 2, 1932.

9“Kidnapping Wave Sweeps the Nation,” New York Times, March 3, 1932.

10“Kidnapping: A Rising Menace to the Nation,” New York Times, March 6, 1932.

11“J. Edgar Hoover Made the F.B.I. Formidable with Politics, Publicity and Results,” New York Times, May 3, 1972.

12“Costly Mercy Hit by J. Edgar Hoover,” New York Times, August 1, 1933.

13“August Busch Heir Freed by Abductor,” New York Times, January 2, 1931.

14“Dr. Kelley’s Story of Experiences in Kidnapers’ Hands,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1931.

15“Dr. Kelley Released to Post-Dispatch Man,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1931.

16“Dr. Kelley’s Story of Experiences in Kidnapers’ Hands,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1931.

17“Dr. Kelley Released to Post-Dispatch Man,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1931.

18“Dr. Kelley’s Story of Experiences in Kidnapers’ Hands,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 28, 1931.

19Cahill, Richard T. Jr., Hauptmann’s Ladder, a Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014), 12.

20Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991), 149–151.

21“Kidnapping of Baby Speeds Federal Law,” New York Times, March 2, 1932.

22Gentry, Curt, J. Edgar Hoover, the Man and the Secrets (New York: W.W. Norton, 1991), 151.

23“DeJute Boy Found Concealed in Wall,” New York Times, March 6, 1932.

24“DeJute Abductor Gets a Life Term,” New York Times, March 17, 1932.

25Neibaur, James L., Butterfly in the Rain: The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 3.

26Ibid., 114.

27Ibid., 15.

28Ibid., 17.

29Ibid., 22.

30Ibid., 33.

31“Mexicans Welcome Lindbergh’s Mother with Rush on Field,” New York Times, December 23, 1927.

32Neibaur, James L., Butterfly in the Rain: The 1927 Abduction and Murder of Marion Parker (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 59.

33Ibid., 77.

34Ibid., 169.

35Daniell, F. Raymond, “Progress Made in Search of the Lindbergh Baby,” New York Times, March 9, 1932.

36Daniell, F. Raymond, “Lindbergh Search Pressed near Home,” New York Times, March 10, 1932.

37Cahill, Richard T. Jr., Hauptmann’s Ladder, a Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014), 55.

38“Hitler’s Prospects Regarded as Slight,” New York Times, March 10, 1932.

39Daniell, F. Raymond, “Lindbergh Hopeful, Is Ready to Ransom Son,” New York Times, March 3, 1932.

40“Kidnapping: A Rising Menace to the Nation,” New York Times, March 6, 1932.

41Schechter, Harold, Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer! (New York: Pocket Books, 1990),