April 16 (original) (raw)
April 16, 2025
To the Honorable New Jersey Courts �
My name is Stephen Monier and I am a retired law enforcement officer with more than 38 years active-duty experience. I spent 30 years with the Goffstown, New Hampshire Police Department, the last 15 of which I served as the Chief of Police. Following my retirement from municipal law enforcement, I served for eight years as the Presidentially appointed U.S. Marshal for the District of New Hampshire.
In the early 1990�s, Attorney Greg Ahlgren and I became very interested in the Lindbergh case. Greg Ahlgren is an esteemed and highly regarded criminal defense attorney with more than 47 years of trial work. During his tenure as a member of NH�s citizen legislature, he helped author the revision of New Hampshire�s Criminal Code.
While Greg focused on the evidence presented at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, both he and I also closely examined the investigation into the �kidnapping� and demands for ransom of baby Lindbergh. I also carefully analyzed the many biographies written about Charles Lindbergh, and importantly, his behaviors towards others, including his wife Anne. At the end of this process, I concluded that it was quite improbable that on the night of March 1, 1932, in a remote area of Hopewell, NJ, that this was a stranger abduction. Far more plausible was that it was an �inside� act of negligence that led to the death of the 20-month-old child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. There are many theories and conflicting evidence in this case, which has been called, �The Crime of the Century,� the eventual title of our 1993 book.
I urge the Court to allow the advanced, minimally invasive, DNA testing of the nursery ransom note, which will help answer a threshold question in this case. Who entered the nursery that night, and who took the child?
Respectfully,