Lindbergh baby kidnapping

The baby’s parents, Charles A. Lindbergh (“Lucky Lindy”) and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were in the house at the time. Police discovered a ladder to the child’s bedroom and a ransom note demanding $50,000, written in broken English. Two months after the kidnapping and exchange of gold certificates in a ransom, the baby’s body was discovered just 4 miles from the Lindbergh estate. The child had been killed by a blow to his head. In what would be called “the trial of the century,” a German immigrant, Bruno Hauptmann, was tried for the kidnapping and murder based on evidence such as gold certificates from the ransom found on his person and in his home and wood that matched the ladder also in his home. He claimed innocence until the end. He was executed by electrocution on April 3, 1936. The Lindbergh’s would have five more children; Charles Lindbergh fathered seven other children with three other women.

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