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Charles Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Study

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Carl Nguyen
April 3rd, 2018
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The Kidnapping of the Lindbergh Baby
. The case was such a sad story. Charles Lindbergh was famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight. The son was Charles Lindbergh’s baby and he was kidnapped in 1932 when he was only 20 months old. The kidnapper used the ladder to kidnap the baby from the second-floored window. Following, Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh received a note saying that their son has been kidnapped and the money to bail him back is $50,000 which was a lot of money back then. The money was later increased to $70,000. His body was later found near the Charles’ mansion. The police later found evidence that leads to Bruno Hauptmann, a german immigrants. The money was found at his place and also the notes that were sent to Lindbergh’s family matched Hauptmann’s handwriting. Also the wood that Hauptmann has also matched with the ladder’s material that was used to climb up the mansion. He was later electrocuted …show more content…

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