Lloyd / Sahol Detective Ellis H. Parker

America's Sherlock Holmes
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-0983-9362-5
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 582 Seiten

Renowned Detective Ellis H. Parker was known as 'The Sly Fox,' 'America's Sherlock Holmes,' and as a 'Master Detective.' Detective Parker solved the 'Crime of The Century' (the Lindbergh baby kidnapping) and presented a confession to the prosecution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann that David Wilentz was leading. The confession was signed by Paul H. Wendel, who admitted taking the baby from the Lindbergh mansion and dropping the baby from his arms, resulting in the death of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Detective Parker also exposed the relationship of many years between Paul Wendel and Isidor Fisch, the man he believed accompanied Wendel to the Lindbergh home the night that the baby went missing. Deathly afraid of Detective Ellis Parker, Prosecutor David Wilentz discredited Paul H. Wendel's confession. He then convinced Wendel that it would be in his best interests to rescind his confession and accuse Detective Parker of his kidnapping and torture. Wilentz then rushed Bruno Richard Hauptmann to judgment to cover up his misconduct and the fraudulent methods he used to falsify evidence and bribery. There was little doubt that Ellis Parker would have proven that Wilentz had framed an innocent man given his freedom. Denied a lie detector test he had requested, Hauptmann refused to change his plea to guilty even after an offer was made to spare his life. Wilentz then supported his charges against Ellis Parker with more falsified evidence to get a conviction that would silence Parker forever. Fortunately for Wilentz, Ellis Parker died before he could work again. His family, especially his Son, Ellis Jr., feared continued confrontation with Wilentz after being released from prison. Ellis Parker Jr. asked by his daughter to reopen the case, was quoted as saying, 'A lot of people could get hurt.' We suspect that he was threatened to remain silent so that David Wilentz could continue to be admired and celebrated for sending an innocent man, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, to his death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd, Russell

Sahol, Andrew

Leseproben

LIVING WITH ELLIS PARKER’S GHOST J. D. Mullane wrote the following for his weekly column in the Burlington County Times on June 8, 2011. Andy Sahol takes a seat in his living room, leans forward, and pleads the case for his dead Grandfather, Ellis Parker. My Grandfather is innocent. He went to prison, and how is it for a detective to die in prison? That’s where he died. You know that, right? How’s that for miscarriage of justice? It should never have happened. My Grandfather knew who kidnapped Lindbergh’s son, and it wasn’t Bruno Hauptmann. It was Paul Wendel, and Wendel confessed to it. It’s here, in my research. All this, here. All this. You just have to read, connect the dots. Sahol speaks interrupted for almost 20 minutes. On TV tables are stacks of papers, photocopied court documents, memos, old newspaper clippings, books, binders. It’s all in here. Look. You have to read them,” he said, looking, paging, reading. Sahol is 72. He is a retired troubleshooter for PSE&G. He is a widower who lives in an age-restricted development in Florence, NJ. He has spent 13 years trying to get a presidential pardon for his late Grandfather. “My goal is to clear him,” he said. Detective Ellis Parker is largely forgotten, but he was a living legend in Burlington County. He served as the county’s chief Detective from 1894 to 1937. His pipe smoking and fiddle playing earned him a reputation as a homespun hick, but he wasn’t. His crime sleuthing brought international fame. He was called “the world’s greatest living Detective,” a real-life Sherlock Holmes. It was not an exaggeration. Parker solved 200 murders and sent 300 criminals to prison. He had no high school diploma, but he was brilliant at sorting fact from fiction and, as a friend once said, “making one fact bear the weight of another, and another, until he had a logical structure.” Andy put it this way: “He was doing forensic CSI stuff 100 years ago,” Take the case of the Pickled Corpse. In October 1920, two men were suspected of robbing and killing a bank courier. Two weeks later, when the body was found near a Burlington County pond, an examination of the corpse indicated the courier had been dead a day or two. The suspects’ alibis checked out. Scores of people had seen the pair in the days and weeks after the courier vanished. Detective Parker’s instincts said the courier had been dead longer than that. He discovered that Hemlock trees around the pond had enriched the water and soil with Tannic acid, preserving the body and making it seem as if the courier had been dead only a day or two. The killer confessed. Then came the Lindbergh murder in 1932. The toddler son of Charles Lindbergh, the world’s most famous aviator, was kidnapped from his bedroom in Hopewell, Mercer County. State investigators kept Parker out, although he desperately wanted in. Richard Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the crime. Parker believed the culprit was Paul Wendel, a doughy, middle-aged Trenton Lawyer with a shady past. He became obsessed with Wendel. Parker employed “investigators,” including his son, Ellis Jr., to kidnap and torture Wendel to coerce a confession, according to John Reisinger’s 2006 book, “Master Detective.” The Parkers were tried, convicted, and sent to the Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Ellis Sr. died seven months later, in February 1940. He was 68. Ellis Jr. was released in 1941 and later pardoned. He never discussed the case again. Andy Sahol is in his bedroom, poring over more stacks of research documents. “I see it as my duty to my family to set the record straight, to get me Grandfather pardoned. President Clinton didn’t answer me. President Bush said he wasn’t entertaining pardons. Oh – see this paper here? My Grandfather had thrombosis of the left hemisphere of the brain. That qualifies him for an insanity defense.” Sahol is up, off to another room with another table laden with more papers. He passes a large painting of his grandfather, ghostly and dapper in a dark suit and broad trimmed hat. He flips through documents saying “Here” and “Look” and “See?” “You just have to look. Connect the dots,” Andy says. “It’s all right here. It’s here, in all of this. In my heart, I know.” THE STORY CONTINUES ON AUGUST 8, 2020 (told by Russell Lloyd) A lot of time has passed. Andy Sahol is now 81 years old. He has suffered some severe setbacks and has been hospitalized several times, but he still has the energy and desire needed to set the record straight on his grandfather’s incredible life. Thankfully, he has regained his health. But something is different. Andy no longer believes his Grandfather Ellis Parker and his uncle Ellis Parker Jr. require pardons. Why? Andy Sahol Answers: “Because they were never guilty of a damn thing!” Andy tells me. “They were innocent and deserved an acquittal, not a pardon. A pardon is only possible when there is an admission of guilt. They never admitted guilt, and my research proves they were not guilty. The sentence needs to be reversed; they were innocent of any crime. It is a fact that my grandfather solved the Lindbergh case.” “Paul Wendel was the kidnapper, and he either killed the baby or took the wrap for someone else. He even signed a confession! Claimed, his family helped! Who does that? Hauptmann was only guilty of extortion and money laundering. He was executed because David Wilentz wanted to become famous for solving the case. Then Wilentz needed to silence my Grandfather and my uncle. It was the same trial all over again. Manufactured evidence was used to obtain guilty verdicts on Hauptmann, my grandfather, and my uncle.” “I have new evidence now to prove what happened. We have recovered the “ELLIS PARKER LOST FILES.” They were thought to have been destroyed by my Uncle Ellis Parker Jr. Anthony Scaduto, author of Scapegoat, traveled to talk with my Uncle Eddie in Hainesport in the mid-1970s. Eddie told him that he didn’t know anything about the files but that Ellis Junior’s second wife, Betty, might know something. Scaduto learned that Ellis Parker Junior was told to burn the files by my grandfather. My Grandfather said to him that he was worried that people would be hurt if they came out.” In his book, Anthony Scaduto tells of his search that took him to Mt. Holly, New Jersey. He describes meeting with Eddie Parker, Detective Parker’s son. After telling Scaduto that he had no idea where the papers ended up, Eddie suggests that he contact Ellis Parker Junior’s second wife, Betty, his widow who had remarried. Betty was living in Clearwater, Florida, with her new husband. Scaduto telephoned Betty, and she told him that her then-husband Ellis Parker Junior had destroyed the papers just as his father had requested before his death. In Scaduto’s book, he wrote that Betty told him, “They’ve been destroyed.” After Scaduto replied, “Oh my god, no,” Betty continued, “I’m afraid so. My husband was so discouraged about everything that happened to him and his father. After that, the Wendel thing blew up in their faces. He ordered me to burn everything after he died.” Scaduto asked, “but why?” “Ellis told me that no good will come out of this now. It’s too late. No one will ever believe that Hauptmann is innocent, and my father was right. So, I burned the papers after my husband died.” Disappointed, Anthony Scaduto gave up on the search. Betty (now Mrs. Blair Rodman) maintained her Mount Holly residence while residing in Florida and visited home often. In 2017 Andy Sahol received a shocking call from Betty’s daughter, Betty Jean Arronson. Betty Jean was cleaning out her late mother’s home in Mount Holly to get it ready for sale. She called Andy to tell him that she had found several boxes in the attic that he should have. After bringing them to his home in Florence, New Jersey, Andy discovered that the boxes contained the long thought destroyed files of his late Grandfather, Detective Ellis H. Parker. Andy Sahol adds: “The lost files of my grandfather Ellis Parker contain enough new information to change the conception of history. My Grandfather presented the signed confession of Paul Wendel to the prosecution. Wendel was the only person to confess to the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh child. Wendel repudiated his confession after being offered a deal by the Hauptmann prosecution led by David Wilentz. Wendel would be rewarded beyond his wildest dreams. All his past transgressions, sins, outstanding warrants, and criminal charges would be lost. Paul Wendel would be free to write about his involvement in the Lindbergh case for large sums of money, as he had often talked of doing. It was an offer he could not refuse.” THE LINDBERGH-HAUPTMANN AFTERMATH by Paul H. Wendel In 1940 Paul Wendel attempted to profit on his Lindbergh case notoriety by publishing “The Lindbergh-Hauptmann Aftermath. The publisher was Loft Publishing. I suspect there...