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... but I guess closure was needed and this is how they chose to approach it. They said they could not rule out a larger conspiracy which means this murder will never be perceived as solved, even if he was the shooter.

Probably spot on. They must've felt that they couldn't live with the case just being kept open indefinitely, and that they had to come up with something.
 
Do we know what happened to the Lindbergh Baby?
On May 12, 1932, the body of the kidnapped baby was accidentally found, partly buried, and badly decomposed, about four and a half miles southeast of the Lindbergh home, 45 feet from the highway, near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in Mercer County. The discovery was made by William Allen, an assistant on a truck driven by Orville Wilson. The head was crushed, there was a hole in the skull and some of the body members were missing. The body was positively identified and cremated at Trenton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1932. The Coroner’s examination showed that the child had been dead for about two months and that death was caused by a blow on the head.

The killer was allegedly a man named Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
 
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