Book links deceased Mount Clemens man to Lindbergh case

December 16, 2012 at 1:00 am
Book links deceased Mount Clemens man to Lindbergh case
Mich. family divided over whether relative collected ransom for kidnapping
By Francis X. Donnelly
The Detroit News



A 1932 police sketch shows the kidnapper calling himself "John" who collected Lindbergh ransom money in a Bronx cemetery. The photo shows John Knoll, neighbor to the father of Michigan author Robert Zorn. Zorn builds a circumstantial case against Knoll through photos, handwriting samples, case files and interviews with FBI profilers, forensic psychiatrists and Knoll relatives in his book "Cemetery John." ()
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Richmond — Waiting for a haircut in the 1960s, Gene Zorn read a magazine story about the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping that stirred a childhood memory. Had Zorn grown up with someone involved in the abduction?

The thought nagged him for the rest of his life so, before his death in 2006, his son vowed to look into it.

The result is "Cemetery John," a new book that accuses a former Mount Clemens resident of being the never-caught mastermind of one of the most sensational crimes in history.

Robert Zorn builds a circumstantial case against John Knoll through old photos, handwriting samples, 250,000 criminal case files and interviews with FBI profilers, forensic psychiatrists and Knoll relatives in Michigan and around the world.


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