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. This is due to parts of the ladder being made of wood originating from his house as well as his tools matching the tools used to make the ladder that was used in the kidnapping and $14,600 of the ransom money being found in his garage while being used by Richard are all pieces of evidence that point towards Richard as the culprit. However, there is reason to believe that Richard is not guilty, this is because, at the …show more content…
The ladder that had been used in the kidnapping, “previously had been part of a floorboard in Hauptmann's attic” (Anatomy of the Lindbergh Kidnapping). After thorough examination by the police, they concluded that when Hauptmann had been making the ladder that would be used in the kidnapping, he used a wooden plank from the attic of his house. Charles Hauptmann was also a carpenter meaning he had the tools and resources to build the ladder. The ladder also had tool marks, “matched tools owned by Hauptmann'' (Lindbergh Kidnapping). Once the police examined the ladder they found the tools that were used to make the ladder traced back to the tools Hauptmann owned. To conclude, Hauptmann can be confirmed as the killer because the ladder is made from his house and the tools that were used to make the ladder were