On April 3, 1936, Hopman was sentenced to electrocution because he was convicted of kidnapping. The discussion about this case has not yet been resolved. This is because the case is still suspicious. , On the other hand, because it also had a profound impact on the establishment of the famous FBI (FBI).
Let’s review the history of this case first.
On March 1, 1932, a man named Lin Bai took his wife and children secretly to his holiday house for vacation. The word " secret" was used here because the Lin Bai family merged Not the general public in the United States.
Lin Bai was a famous American pilot at the time. His fame was to fly an old-fashioned monoplane with only general flying instruments to complete the feat of crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Before him, many people challenged him. This record has passed, but no one can do it before Lin Bai.
This feat of ignorance of life and death made Lin Bai an American hero at the time. The President of the United States even personally awarded him the highest medal that American civilians can obtain-the Congressional Medal. This record-breaking leap was later made for Lin Bai. Won the title of " human hero".
Lin Bai, who instantly became a national hero at the time, received countless honors, and also received a beautiful love that year. His wife is Mengluo, a American diplomat After marriage, Mengluo and Lin Bai carried out a cross-state survey flight with a total mileage of nearly 50,000 kilometers. Later, Lin Bai also served as American Airlines and a military adviser to the US Air Force.
After two and a half years of marriage,Their first son was born. Because his father was well-known outside, Xiao Lin Bai was called " Lin Bai Xiaoying" by outsiders. However, according to insiders, Lin Bai did not agree with his eldest son. Satisfied, because Xiaolinbai’s chimney gate did not heal like a normal child, so Lin Bai believes that Xiaolinbai may have physical defects in the future.
Therefore, in addition to often losing his temper at home, Lin Bai also allowed his wife who had not fully recovered from the first child to conceive and have children again. Because of Lin Bai’s attitude towards Xiao Lin Bai, he also let descendants pick up the kidnapping at the time. The murder case of gave rise to a lot of reveries.
Because the Lin Bai family was already a high profile public figure at the time, they were very low-key when they went to their holiday house. Except for their family members, was completely unaware of . However, on that night, Xiao Lin Bai disappeared, because the only one who was in the same room with Xiao Lin Bai was his younger brother, so no one saw what happened at the time.
However, when Lin Bai's family was looking for Xiao Lin Bai in the surrounding area, they still found a clue. It was a note placed by the window. The handwriting on the note was awkward and the grammar was full of loopholes, but the meaning was very different. It is clear that Xiao Lin Bai was kidnapped, and the kidnappers demanded that Lin Bai put a ransom of US$50,000 in at the specified place at the specified time.
US$50 thousand is not a small amount, so Lin Bai chose to call the police ( can fully afford Lin Bai’s financial resources, and his doing so also gave future generations an extra reason for reverie), but the local police at the time Did not come up with any valuable plan, but at this time, the case spread throughout the United States, because the victim is a hero of the United States, so public opinion is in full swing, and later the President of the United States sitting in the White House also specially sent The predecessor of the FBI " Investigation Bureau" went to the Lin family to solve the case.
Because the purpose of " Investigation Bureau" was originally established to investigate special economic crimes, and later although the investigations involved began to become comprehensive, the " Investigation Bureau" at that time and the current Criminal investigation methods are still relatively backward, so after the " Investigation Bureau" went, there was no major breakthrough in the case in the first time.
And Lin Bai seemed to be very anxious to end this matter, so he strongly demanded that he use the ransom in exchange for his son. The staff of the " Investigation Bureau" could not stop a prestigious and eager son Father, they had no choice but to agree to Lin Bai’s request, but they also made their own suggestion- recorded all the ransom numbers made up of old dollars one by one, and provided files for later verification of criminals. Lin Bai chose to agree. .
However, after Lin Bai increased the ransom of $50,000 to 70,000 according to the robbers' agreement, and sent him to the designated location, Xiao Lin Bai was not released. People saw Xiao Lin Bai again more than a month later. Moreover, Xiao Lin Bai had become a corpse at that time, and according to the forensic judgment, Xiao Lin Bai should have passed away on the night of his disappearance.
Because this case has changed again, " Investigation Bureau" once again boarded the gate of Lin Bai's house. In this investigation, the personnel of " Investigation Bureau" According to clues, it is inferred that there may be a " inner ghost" in Lin Bai's house, and they also targeted Lin Bai's nanny.However, before they could conduct further investigations, the babysitter chose to commit suicide after leaving the investigator's sight for an excuse.
Because of the death of the nanny, investigators had to evacuate because they did not find new clues. It is worth mentioning that Lin Bai's family has its own cemetery because of the wealth of the economy, so after the death of the family, they will be buried directly in the tomb, but Xiaolin Bai was cremated exceptionally.
Two years after Xiao Lin Bai was cremated, a gas station staff member put down the other party’s license plate when he put the gas money to prevent customers from being counterfeit, and when the gas station owner saw the U.S. dollar When I remembered the kidnapping case of Kobayashi White, I provided the code of this banknote to the police. Because there was a ransom note in the " Investigation Bureau" database, it was quickly found that this banknote was among the tens of thousands of ransoms that year. One, so the police quickly arrested the Hopman we mentioned at the beginning.
Because Hopman had a criminal record and was an immigrant from Germany (handwriting and grammar), and when the overall economy of the United States was very bad at that time, he had money to spend, and most importantly, the police He also found tens of thousands of dollars in his home, and all of these dollars were ransoms registered by the " investigation bureau".
So Hopman was immediately prosecuted, but what puzzled the police was that no matter what the police took, Hopman insisted that he was innocent, and the police never found Hopman at the crime scene. However, because of the social pressure in this case, Hopman was sentenced to death in the end.
However, it is worth mentioning that according to the law at the time, if Hopman was willing to confess his guilt, he did not have to accept the death penalty, but he never admitted that he had committed a crime from beginning to end, and just before his death, the priest had done it. For the ultimate humanistic care, when the pastor asked him what his last words, he firmly said that he was innocent.
Because there are many doubts in this case,Some people still think that Hopman may have been wronged.
After this case occurred, many people in the United States complained that the autonomous judicial system of the states in the United States affected the efficiency of case detection, and hoped that the U.S. government could establish a judicial institution that handles cases across states, because the U.S. economy was at that time. It was underestimated, so the president at the time did not agree to the establishment of a new department.
However, under pressure from all parties, the U.S. government passed a judicial bill called " Lindbergh Act ", which stipulates that kidnapping cases occur no matter which state. As long as the incident exceeds 24 hours, it is mandatory to presume that the victim has crossed the state border, and the case becomes a federal crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation needs to take over the case. So far, the FBI has begun to usher in a flying development .
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