Charles Lindbergh Kidnapping Case Study

Carl Nguyen

April 3rd, 2018

MR JOSE

FORENSICS

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

Ted Kaczynski was a child prodigy. He attended Harvard at the age of 16 and got his doctorate degree at the age of 25. But he decided to quit all of his work to move in and lived at a small cabin without any electricity and water. He wanted to live on his own. He did not agree with America’s modern technology so that was one of his motive to bomb. He had bombed a total of 16 places, killed 3 and injured 23 other people. He was one of the costliest and longest for FBI to search in the history. He demanded The New York Times and The Washington Post to publish his manifesto for him to stop killing. The Washington Post indeed did published it. His brother- David Kaczynski, saw the essay and recognized Ted’s ideas and languages, he then informed the FBI about it. The FBI later arrested Ted Kaczynski with all the evidence against him in his own cabin. They found the copy of his manifesto and his first bomb idea also. He was sentenced to life in prison without