The aforesaid forensic subject precocious utilized to ID victims of nan Gilgo Beach serial slayer could now find whether German migrant Bruno Hauptmann notoriously murdered nan Lindbergh babe astir much than 90 years ago.
This month, 3 group — a history professor, retired coach and developmental scientist — revenge a suit against nan New Jersey State Police, seeking entree to ransom notes nan Lindberghs received successful 1932, Newsday reported.
The suit cites a familial genealogist, who said “it has only been precocious that DNA testing and study person evolved pinch nan imaginable of testing those envelopes to nutrient definitive investigative leads that could resoluteness lingering uncertainties.”
The aforesaid method nan plaintiffs dream will yet determine who licked nan Lindbergh stamps was precocious utilized to place nan remains of Valerie Mack, Karen Vergata and Tanya Denise Jackson and her young daughter, Tatiana.
The 4 bodies were among nan 11 recovered on Ocean Parkway adjacent Gilgo Beach successful Suffolk County pinch betwixt December 2010 and April 2011.
Architect Rex Heuermann has been charged pinch nan murders of 7 of nan 11 Gilgo Beach victims.
Over nan years, historians person based on personification adjacent to Charles Lindbergh — a family sanction aft completing nan first solo formation crossed nan Atlantic Ocean successful 1927 from Long Island’s Roosevelt Field — had to person been progressive successful his son’s March 1, 1932 kidnapping.
Even aft nan celebrated aviator paid $70,000 successful ransom, nan 20-month-old wasn’t returned — successful a enigma that captivated nan nation.
Eleven days later, nan boy’s bludgeoned remains were recovered dumped successful woods not acold from Lindbergh’s home.
Hauptmann, who lived successful nan Bronx, was convicted for nan crime successful 1935 and electrocuted connected April 3, 1936.
But immoderate person long-maintained Hauptmann’s innocence.
If provided pinch nan envelopes, nan trio will look to assistance DNA from nan undersides of nan stamps, successful hopes of identifying nan sender utilizing precocious familial genealogy research, according to Newsday.
Heuermann has not been criminally charged pinch sidesplitting Vergata aliases Jackson and her child.
During a property convention past month, Nassau Country Homicide Det. Lt. Stephen Fitzpatrick was asked if investigators judge Heuermann was progressive successful their murders.
“We’re not saying it’s him, but we’re not saying it’s not him,” Fitzpatrick said. “We are proceeding arsenic if it’s not related.”