Lindbergh Case Study

The Lindbergh Case: Who Did It?
¨Latest figures show that nine point two million children under- five are dying every year¨ (¨Child Mortality¨). The Lindbergh case was built around a twenty month old baby who was kidnapped and murdered in the middle of the day while everyone was home. It all began when the maid had left his room after he had fallen asleep. Although this happened in the nineteen hundreds, they still haven’t truly figured out who the kidnapper was. The mystery behind the Lindbergh baby can be summed up in two theories: Bruno Richard Hauptmann or others being the kidnapper and murderer. While the Lindbergh case is not new, a lot of theorists are still entertained with trying to figure out exactly what happened. Although some people disagree on who the kidnapper/murderer was, there are some things almost everyone agrees on. The kidnapper of the twenty month old baby left fifteen written messages for the Lindberghs stating how much they had to pay and the instructions for how to pay (Aeseng 13). About two weeks after the kidnapping, on March twelfth, nineteen thirty-two, the demand for money increased to seventy thousand dollars and a package that contained the child’s pajamas arrived at John Codon’s, a volunteer that helped communicate with the kidnapper, house three days later (Newton 219). Around that time, fifty thousand dollars was delivered to the kidnapper on April second, nineteen thirty-two because he claimed he would tell them where the child was