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Lindbergh Kidnapping refers to the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Junior, the toddler son of world famous aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in 1932. more...

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The kidnapping and subsequent trial were among the biggest news stories of the day. Every development was followed by millions of people. Newspaper writer H.L. Mencken called the affair "the biggest story since the Resurrection."

Bruno Hauptmann was convicted and electrocuted for the crime, though he proclaimed his innocence.

The crime inspired the "Lindbergh Law", which made kidnapping a federal crime, and also inspired the Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel, film and video game Murder on the Orient Express directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall ,Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark and Michael York.

The abduction

Normally, the Lindberghs would have returned to Englewood, New Jersey during the week, where the young family had been staying with Anne Morrow Lindbergh's parents, but Charles, Jr. was recovering from a bad cold. He may have developed chicken pox. So his parents decided to remain at the house in East Amwell.

On the evening of March 1, 1932 at about 8:00 p.m., the baby had been put to bed by his mother and nanny Betty Gow. Gow stayed with the baby a few minutes longer until she was sure he was asleep. Mrs. Lindbergh looked in on the child at about 9:00 p.m. and found him sleeping quietly.

Gow went to check on the baby a little before 10:00 p.m., but discovered he was not in his bed. She told Mrs. Lindbergh. The two women initially suspected that Mr. Lindbergh, who occasionally played practical jokes, was playing a joke on them. Not long before, he had secreted the child in a closet, claiming no awareness of his location while they searched the house. When Mrs. Lindbergh and Betty Gow quizzed him as to the baby's whereabouts, Lindbergh grew alarmed and insisted it was no joke. An inspection of the baby's bed revealed that the bedclothes were largely untouched, and it soon became obvious that the boy had not climbed out of bed by himself. Lindbergh turned to his wife and said, "Anne, they have stolen our baby."

A letter was discovered on the nursery window sill — presumably left there by the kidnapper(s) — but Lindbergh allowed no one to touch it until police arrived.

He told a butler, Ollie Whately, to telephone the police. The call was placed at 10:25 p.m. Lindbergh, carrying a rifle, then searched the house and the grounds.

Outside, he found a shoddy, homemade wooden ladder on the ground below the second floor nursery window. Its top rung was broken and the remaining rungs were spaced eighteen inches apart, which was different from the standard of twelve inches. The ladder was said to be amateur and clumsily built, but was the right length to reach the window.

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