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15,156. It is one of the most haunting crimes in American history. The daring kidnapping and tragic death of Charles Lindbergh junior. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) Nova: Who Killed Baby Lindbergh? PBS 2013
15,157. Never before had a child this celebrated and adored been so shockingly victimized. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,158. One or more individuals came to the house with a home-made folding ladder that left scrapes marks on the wall to the right of the baby’s bedroom window. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,159. It took the police two and a half years to finally corral a suspect. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,160. Hauptmann … never wavered from his claim of innocence. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,161. Questions about Lindbergh’s behavior emerged soon after the kidnapping. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,162. Who supplied the kidnappers with vital inside information? (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,163. America is gripped by the Great Depression ... In the child’s room he [Lindbergh] finds [Little It] missing ... The biggest man-hunt in history was soon underway. President Hoover promised, ‘We will move Heaven and Earth to find out who is this criminal.’ Even public enemy number one, Al Capone, inconveniently in jail at the time, offered ... a reward. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) Great Crimes & Trials: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnap
15,164. When the gang produced the sleeping suit that Little It had been wearing when he was kidnapped, Lindley prepared to hand over the ransom demand. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,165. Six weeks later, a baby’s body was spotted by two truck drivers ... only two and a half miles from the Lindbergh house ... Decomposed, [Little It] lay face downward and half-covered with leaves ... The anguished father cut a curl of hair still clinging to his skull. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,166. The Defence emphasised that one man could not carry out the kidnap alone ... Hauptmann was found guilty and sentenced to die in the electric chair ... Hauptmann continued to protest his innocence. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,167. Banknotes from the robbery are still entering the circulation. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
15,168. The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal. (Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Kidnap & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
129,533. The firstborn son of Charles Lindbergh: on the night of April 3rd 1936 Bruno Hauptmann is put to death. After years of intensive research a writer named Anthony Scaduto has uncovered startling new evidence that Bruno Hauptmann may not have been guilty of the kidnap or murder of the Lindbergh baby. (Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) In Search of s5e8 … The Lindbergh Kidnapping, History 1980
129,534. On March 1st 1932 the Lindbergh home is secretly entered through the second-floor nursery window. The sleeping Lindbergh baby is stolen from his crib. A makeshift wooden ladder was used to reach the child while the Lindberghs were on the floor below. (Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
129,535. One month later near the Lindbergh estate the baby’s body is found. (Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
129,536. Police search his house in the Bronx. In his garage they find hidden nearly $15,000 of the Lindbergh ransom money. (Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.
129,685. Was the death of the world’s most famous baby [Lindbergh] the result of the Nazi science of Eugenics? (Disappearances & Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) Conspiracy: Disappearances, Blaze 2019
129,690. ‘One columnist even said it was the greatest crime since the crucifixion of Christ.’ (Disappearances & Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid. old boy
129,691. Some people believe that Hauptmann as no more than a bit player in the case and that the person who should have been held to account was no other than Lindbergh himself. (Disappearances & Kidnap & Murder Cases: Lindbergh & Miscarriages of Justice: Hauptmann) ibid.