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Abduction: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping

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Approximately, 840,000 people are reported missing each year. Surprisingly, the FBI claims that about 80% to 90% of these individuals are children. Although these kidnappings was devastating to the families who had lost their children, you probably would not have heard of the most infamous abduction…The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping. Charles Augustus Lindbergh was a famous aviator known for being the first pilot to complete a solo transatlantic flight. Although Lindbergh’s life was full of excitement and fame, on the night of March 1st, 1932, everything took a turn for the worse. On that night, his only child, 20 months old was kidnapped, leaving the family heartbroken in tears. Bruno Richard Hauptman was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Richard Bruno Hauptman was responsible for kidnapping and murdering Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. According to the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Third …show more content…

“The dollar sign is put after the dollar amount, which is a German way of writing the money. Also there are misspelling of words. The word "signature" is spelled s-i-n-g-n-a-t-u-r-e.” (PBS NOVA DOCUMENTARY). Bruno Richard Hauptman was actually German and all this evidence points directly to him. He also wasn’t very fluent in English which must have shown that his writing wasn’t very proper and must have been disorganized. Through further analysis of the note, the detectives uncovered many grammatical errors such as the dollar signs being in the front an also misspelled words. These misspelled words consisted of ours being “ouers,” later being , “ladder,” and where being,”were,”. This evidently tells us that Bruno Richard Hauptman must have crafted the ransom note. Not only that but, Lindbergh had assigned John Condon, a fellow friend of Lindberghs, to give the ransom money for him. According to the Second Character Cards, “Condon claimed to

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Lindbergh baby WHat: Charles lindbergh 20 month old son was kidnapped on March 1, 1932 at about 9 pm. There was a ransom note asking for $50,000 on the nursery window sill. Another ransom note was sent out asking for $70,000 this time. They gave $50,000 to get their child back but the baby was accidentally found dead near their house. He had been dead for two months from a blow to the head.

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On May 12, 1932, 72 days after the kidnapping, the decomposed body of a baby was found in the woods near the Lindbergh house. Although the suspect has been trialed and found guilty of the abduction

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In 1936, Charles Lindbergh Jr, the most famous baby of the era, was kidnapped. After a two year search, the police arrested a German immigrant, by the name of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, for committing the crime of the century. However, this man was innocent, for he did not commit this aghasting crime. Instead, John Knoll, Isidor Fisch, James Warburg, and Violet Sharpe are guilty. To prove this point, police tampered with some of the evidence to make Hauptmann look guilty.

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The note read: Dear Sir have 50,000 $ redy 25,000 $ bills 1,5000 $in 10 $

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(www.fbi.gov/) Betty Gow, the baby’s nurse, found the place and baby to be in order at around 8:30 PM. She had gone to check on the baby at 10:00 PM and found the baby gone, the crib left empty. While the kidnapper was climbing into the home he had used a wooden ladder, which broke, leaving behind the broken pieces of the ladder at the Lindbergh home. (www.fbi.gov/)

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There is not much evidence to prove one person. Who could be the kidnapper? At around 8:30-9:30 pm on March 1, 1932, the ‘kidnappers’ climbed a ladder to the room of 20-month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr and kidnapped him in the Lindbergs' house in Hopewell, New Jersey. They left a random note in broken English demanding $50,000. After analyzing the evidence, Charles Lindbergh

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Fractured skull, dead and decomposing body, eaten by animals, a bullet sized hole located in the head. These are just a few of the physical traumas the son of the most famous person in the world faced when he was kidnapped and brutally murdered. Charles Lindbergh was an American Aviator who flew across the Atlantic ocean alone and nonstop in his monoplane when the entire world doubted him and deemed it impossible, this put him among the most famous people in the world. Years later, his son was kidnapped from his estate and then brutally murdered. Bruno Richard Hauptmann is the killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr.

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Around ninety percent of these end up being children. On March first of 1932, the twenty month old Charles Agustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous aviators Charles Lindbergh Sr and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped around nine o'clock at night. As soon as the kidnapping of the baby was discovered, it was reported to the police. Whoever had committed the crime had wiped the room empty of fingerprints and left a ransom note demanding fifty thousand dollars for the safe return of the child. Not long after this event the decaying body of the child was found in

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