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Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Murder

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On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the 20 month old son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh was abducted from their home in New Jersey. Lindbergh found a ransom note from the kidnapper in the windowsill of the baby’s room. Lindbergh searched around the house and grounds finding impressions in the ground near the baby’s window, and pieces of a ladder. During the police investigation no usable fingerprints or footprints were found. Upon examination of the note, the handwritten document contained many spelling and grammatical errors. The note was signed with a symbol containing two interconnected blue circles around a red circle that had been hole punched with two additional hole punches on either side of the symbol. A meeting was arranged to deliver the money requested between John Condon, a retired teacher, and the supposed kidnappers. He delivered the payments and was informed that the baby was being cared for by two innocent women. The baby’s body was discovered on May 12 about 5 miles south of the Lindbergh home by a truck driver named William Allen. It appeared the child had been killed by a blow to the head, and investigators determined that it had been an inside job. Police investigated Violet Sharp, a servant at the Morrow house. Despite her alibi and testimony proving to be true, she commited suicide on …show more content…

They were unable to track the ransom payments to a definitive identity. Eventually they tracked down Richard Hauptmann. Investigators found evidence linking him to the crime. Besides the payments, the ransom notes were investigators best evidence to link someone to the crime, seeing as there was no definitive proof of an certain individual entering the home, but the ransom notes acted as correspondence between the perpetrators and investigators. Some do however speculate Lindbergh had actually been involved in the death of his

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