Did they ever find the Lindbergh baby or figure out what happened?”
On March 5, the Lindberghs received their first communication from the kidnapper(s) since their baby was taken. It came in the form of a handwritten note mailed from Brooklyn. The note said “Don’t by afraid about the baby two ladys keeping care of it day and night.” The note warned the Lindberghs to keep the police “out of the cace” and said that a future note will tell them “were to deliver the mony.” Feeling a need to find a go-between to deal with the kidnappers, the Lindberghs settled on two bootleggers who had volunteered for the assignment. Meanwhile, gangster Al Capone, calling the kidnapping “the most outrageous thing I have ever heard of,” offered $10,000 for information leading to the return of the child. In the Bronx, New York, an intelligent, patriotic, and a bit overbearing seventy-two-year-old retired principal named Dr. John Condon wrote a letter that ran in the Bronx Home News of March 8, 1932. In his letter, Condon offered the kidnappers $1000 of his own money in addit
The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. was the abduction of the son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The toddler was abducted from his family home in East Amwell, New Jersey near the town of Hopewell, New Jersey on the evening of March 1, 1932. Over two months later, on May 12, 1932, the body of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. was discovered a short distance from the Lindberghs’ home.[1] A medical examination determined that the toddler had a “massive fracture of the skull” which was determined to be the cause of death.[2] After an investigation that lasted more than two years, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested and charged with the crime. In a trial that was held from January 2, 1935 to February 13, 1935, Hauptmann was found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the death penalty. He was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison on April 3, 1936 at 8:44 in the evening. Hauptmann proclaimed his innocence to the end.[3] Newspape
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., twenty-month-old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey. The child’s absence was discovered and reported to his parents, who were then at home, at approximately 10:00 p.m. by the child’s nurse, Betty Gow. A search of the premises was immediately made and a ransom note demanding $50,000 was found on the nursery window sill. After the Hopewell police were notified, the report was telephoned to the New Jersey State Police, who assumed charge of the investigation. On February 13, 1935, the jury returned a verdict. Hauptmann was guilty of murder in the first degree. The sentence: death. The defense appealed.
