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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,

Stephen R. Monier