The terms “crime of the century” and “trial of the century” are used so often that they’ve really lost a lot of their meaning. But in the early twentieth century, there was crime that really shook the world, and all eyes were riveted on a small town in New Jersey, waiting for word on the fate of the infant son of the heroic aviator, Charles Lindbergh. But even within that well-known story, there was a fascinating, but overlooked character.
Wisconsin-born wood scientist Arthur Koehler was working at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison in 1932 when...