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43 SPRING 2018 [15] Handwritten on the brace in German, the confession reads, in part, "I was one of the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby and not Bruno Richard Hauptmann." [16] Originally surfacing in South Plainfield in 1948, the "table confession" was dismissed as a hoax by the state police based on handwriting analysis. Why, then, was it confiscated and logged into evidence? [14] Falzini found the table brace, originally used to join a tabletop to its base, in 2003 in a warehoused crate. It has been called the most important new piece of evidence since the trial. THE TABLE BRACE e archivist uncrates a clue. "The trooper who was there will tell you the color drained from my face. I put this block of wood [14] on the light box and then the first note, the nursery note, on top, and the three screwholes in the center of the brace line up with the holes in the note. And if you take all the ransom notes, all 11 with the authentication symbol, and stack them, they all line up perfectly. And then, of course, there's the confession. [15] I have no idea what it all means. Is it a template? Is it a coincidence? That's for others to figure out." [16] ■

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